The art and politics of science

The art and politics of science

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Varmus, Harold (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York W.W. Norton
Subjects:
Varmus, Harold.
National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
Medical scientists > United States > Biography
Nobel Prize winners > United States > Biography
Science > United States > Personal Narratives.
Health Policy > United States > Personal Narratives.
Neoplasms > therapy > United States > Personal Narratives.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009622092006719
Table of Contents:
  • Origins and beginnings
  • From literature to medicine to science
  • The first taste of scientific success
  • Retroviruses and their replication cycle
  • The RSV oncogene and its progenitor
  • How proto-oncogenes participate in cancer
  • Targeted therapies for human cancers
  • Partnerships in science
  • The road to Building One
  • Being NIH director
  • Priority setting
  • Bad times and good times as NIH director
  • Embryos, cloning, stem cells, and the promise of reprogramming
  • Global science and global health
  • Science publishing and science libraries in the Internet age.

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