The code of life: Francis Crick, James Watson, and the structure of DNA -- Gene sandwiches to go: Herbert Boyer, Stanley N. Cohen, and the birth of genetic engineering -- The killers inside: Michael Bishop, Harold Varmus, and genes that cause cancer -- New genes for old: French Anderson and gene therapy -- Death in the family: Nancy Wexler and genes for inherited diseases -- The life-forever worm: Cynthia Kenyon and the genetics of aging -- Hello, Dolly: Ian Wilmut and cloning -- Out of one, many: James Thomson and embryonic stem cells -- The rice that saves eyes: Ingo Potrykus and golden rice -- The genome race: Francis Collins, Craig Venter, and sequencing the human genome -- Chronology -- Glossary.
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