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Biography Of Paul Berg, A: The Recombinant Dna Controversy Revisited (Hardcover)
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Biography Of Paul Berg, A: The Recombinant Dna Controversy Revisited (Hardcover)
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With a Foreword by Sydney Brenner (Nobel laureate in Physiology or
Medicine, 2002)This biography details the life of Paul Berg
(Emeritus Professor at Stanford University), tracing Berg's life
from birth, in 1926, to the present, with special emphasis on his
enormous scientific contributions, including being the first to
develop technology that led to gene cloning science. In 1980, Berg
received a Nobel Prize in chemistry for this work.In addition to
his contributions in the research laboratory, Berg orchestrated and
oversaw a historic meeting at Asilomar, California that centered on
a threatening controversy surrounding the perception by some of the
harmful potential of recombinant DNA technology. This meeting did
much to forestall this controversy and to put in place the
regulation of recombinant DNA work, thus putting fears to rest.The
recombinant DNA controversy was a historic outcome of the discovery
of gene cloning. Notably, it represented a paramount example of
scientific foresight and due diligence by the scientific community,
rather than by regulatory entities in the United States and many
other countries. The ultimate acceptance of gene/DNA cloning led to
a new era of modern biology that thrives to the present.This book
is aimed primarily at scientists and those in training. The book
strives to simply provide information for the general reader, but
is not specifically tailored for a general reading audience.While
many books cover the recombinant DNA controversy, none have
satisfactorily addressed this historic period and are often
contradictory about the many who's, where's, and why's involved.
Additionally, the great majority of these were written by
non-scientists. This biography of Paul Berg provides access to
numerous archived letters and documents at Stanford University not
previously addressed, and to the chronology of events as recalled
and documented by him, as well as other key personalities, many of
whom were interviewed.
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