Autor: Summers William C. Summers

This book relates how, between 1954 and 1961, the biologist Seymour Benzer mapped the fine structure of the r II region of the genome of the bacterial virus known as phage T4. Benzer’s accomplis …

When plague broke out in Manchuria in 1910 as a result of transmission from marmots to humans, it struck a region struggling with the introduction of Western medicine, as well as with the interaction …

Soccer is the fastest growing sport in America: almost nine million children between the ages of six and eleven play, making it second in that age group behind basketball. But because of its only rec …

A fascinating historical account of the American Phage Group and how its new research framework became the foundation for molecular biology This book is the first critical and analytical study of the …