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The Life of a Virus - Tobacco Mosaic Virus as an Experimental Model, 1930-1965 (Paperback, 2nd ed.) Loot Price: R1,335
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The Life of a Virus - Tobacco Mosaic Virus as an Experimental Model, 1930-1965 (Paperback, 2nd ed.): Angela Creager

The Life of a Virus - Tobacco Mosaic Virus as an Experimental Model, 1930-1965 (Paperback, 2nd ed.)

Angela Creager

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We normally think of viruses in terms of the devastating diseases they cause, from smallpox to AIDS. But in "The Life of a Virus, " Angela N. H. Creager introduces us to a plant virus that has taught us much of what we know about all viruses, including the lethal ones, and that also played a crucial role in the development of molecular biology.
Focusing on the tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) research conducted in Nobel laureate Wendell Stanley's lab, Creager argues that TMV served as a model system for virology and molecular biology, much as the fruit fly and laboratory mouse have for genetics and cancer research. She examines how the experimental techniques and instruments Stanley and his colleagues developed for studying TMV were generalized not just to other labs working on TMV, but also to research on other diseases such as poliomyelitis and influenza and to studies of genes and cell organelles. The great success of research on TMV also helped justify increased spending on biomedical research in the postwar years (partly through the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis's March of Dimes)--a funding priority that has continued to this day.

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Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: 2002
First published: December 2001
Authors: Angela Creager
Dimensions: 233 x 165 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Edition: 2nd ed.
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-12026-3
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Microbiology (non-medical) > Virology
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LSN: 0-226-12026-0
Barcode: 9780226120263

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