'One Renegade Cell - How Cancer begins' af Robert A. Weinberg (bog)

Cancer research has reached a major turning point, and no one is better qualified to explain the past two deacades' dramatic leaps forward in understanding this disease than world-renowned molecular biologist Robert Weinberg, director of the Oncology Research Laboratory at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In One Renegade Cell, Weinberg presents a state-of-the-art account of how cancer begins and how, one day, it will be cured.

How cancers begin and spread, by the scientist responsible for the major recent research breakthroughs

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.

Robert Allan Weinberg is Professor for Cancer Research at MIT, director of the Ludwig Center of the MIT and American Cancer Society Research Professor.

Titel: One Renegade Cell
Forfatter: Robert A. Weinberg
Forlag: Basic Books
Udgivelsesår: 1999
Sider: 176
Sprog: Engelsk