The Language of Life. DNA and the revolution in personalized medicine. Francis S. Collins New York etc.: Harper, 2011
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Francis Collins had an impressive track record as a gene hunter (cystic fibrosis, neurofibromatosis, Huntington’s disease) when he was appointed Director of the Human Genome Project (HGP) in 1993. In June 2000, together with Craig Venter and President Bill Clinton, he presented the draft version of the human genome sequence to a worldwide audience during a famous press conference. And in 2009, President Barack Obama nominated him as director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the largest Tfunding agency for biomedical research in the world.
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دوره 6 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2010