Gen. Ochen lichnaya istoriya
Siddhartha Mukherjee
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22 hours 33 minutes
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'Gen' Siddharthi Mukerdzhi – ischerpyvayuschiy i uvlekatelnyy rasskaz ob istorii razvitiya nauki genetiki, ot eksperimentov s gorohom do gennogo redaktora, i vseh udivitelnyh otkrytiy, sovershennyh mezhdu nimi. Mukerdzhi proslezhivaet istoriyu genetiki, organichno pomeschaya ee v politicheskie dvizheniya i mirovye sobytiya, kotorye ona porodila – kak obnadezhivayuschie, tak i otvratitelnye. On rasskazyvaet o sovremennyh vozmozhnostyah gennoy inzhenerii, ne zabyvaya upomyanut o mrachnyh podrobnostyah proshlogo veka, kogda na zare geneticheskih otkrytiy gosudarstva pytalis v massovom poryadke izbavit naselenie ot 'defektnyh' chert. Rasskazyvaya o geneticheskom zabolevanii, presleduyuschim i ego sobstvennuyu semyu, Mukerdzhi podnimaet vopros o samom opredelenii bolezni i podnimaet odin iz samyh vazhnyh voprosov sovremennoy genetiki: kakoy uroven vmeshatelstva v geneticheskiy kod my mozhem sebe pozvolit, esli nashi uchenye uzhe fakticheski nauchilis perepisyvat genom?