Hood: Trailblazer of the Genomics Age
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (751 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B072HFM39Y |
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| Number of Pages | : | 172 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Would he finally achieve the ultimate application of the genome project - personalized medicine? In Hood: Trailblazer of the Genomics Age, journalist Luke Timmerman zeroes in on a charismatic, controversial personality. Wooed by money from Bill Gates, Hood started over at the University of Washington, creating the world's first Department of Molecular Biotechnology. The result is not just a revealing portrait of one of the most influential biologists of our time but a deeply human look at science itself.. Lee Hood did that rarest of things. He enabled scientists to see things they couldn't see before and do things they hadn't dreamed of doing. His management style, once described as "creative anarchy", al
A biography that's more than just a good story When the author, who for full disclosure I've known for years and consider a friend, told me he was writing a biography I was skeptical it would teach anyone much about the business of biotechnology -- even with such a compelling subject as Dr. Leroy Hood. I was wrong.The first two-thirds of the book are spectacular. As a non-scientist who has worked in the biotech industry for nearly two decades now, the story of all the technologies our industry takes for granted -- technologies without which modern b. "Portrait of a pioneer of tool-driven revolutions" according to Ashutosh S. Jogalekar. The Galisonian view of science - named after historian of science Peter Galison - says that science is driven as much or even more by new techniques and instruments as by new ideas. Sadly most people have always placed theoretical ideas at the forefront of scientific revolutions, a view enforced by Thomas Kuhn's famous book "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions". But a study of the history of science shows that new tools have been as instrumental in opening up whole new areas of science as new ideas.. and the impact he had on many budding scientists that were influenced by the good Dr. Hood Having been in the biotechnology industry for many years, I had often heard about the prolific entrepreneur and scientist, Dr. Hood. However, until reading this book, I did not appreciate the true impact of Dr. Hood’s achievements on our industry and how critical he was to the now obvious convergence of technology and biology/chemistry, and the impact he had on many budding scientists that were influenced by the good Dr. Hood, good, bad or indifferent.Normally, this would be potential required rea