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One renegade cell : the quest for the origins of cancer

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Cancer research has reached a major turning point. The amount of information gathered in the past twenty years about the origins of the disease is without equal in the history of biomedical research. In this book one of America's most eminent scientists explains to the general reader the step-by-step process by which cancers arise, and more importantly, how they spread. Robert Weinberg explains how normal genes control the conventional growth of the cell, how, in their mutated form, they enable cancers to arise, and why these genes have such life-and-death power over us. Drawing from information that simply was not available until recently, One Renegade Cell explains this insidious disease as no other book as ever been able to do.

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Phoenix Press
0753807866 / 9780753807866
Paperback
616.994
02/09/1999
United Kingdom
English
viii, 211p. : ill.
20 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998.
Part of the Science Masters series - bringing together some of the world's finest scientists to explore and explain the key ideas in contemporary science Any progress in cancer research receives widespread media coverage Robert Weinberg has been at the cutting edge of cancer research for twenty years 'An eye for vivid detail and a style of striking clarity' New York Times Book Review 'The Science Master series looks set to play a major role in the responsible popularisation of science' New Scientist
Part of the Science Masters series - bringing together some of the world's finest scientists to explore and explain the key ideas in contemporary science Any progress in cancer research receives widespread media coverage Robert Weinberg has been at the cutting edge of cancer research for twenty years 'An eye for vivid detail and a style of striking clarity' New York Times Book Review 'The Science Master series looks set to play a major role in the responsible popularisation of science' New Scientist MBGR Medical research, MJCL Oncology, PDZ Popular science, PS Biology, life sciences