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DNA: A Graphic Guide to the Molecule that Shook the World
DNA: A Graphic Guide to the Molecule that Shook the World
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by Israel Rosenfield (Author), Edward Ziff (Author), Borin Van Loon (Author)
Review
From a brief history of genetics, to the role of genes in evolution to the development of biotechnology to the sex life of bacteria, all the ideas and players are here.
--The Globe and Mail, February, 2011 --This text refers to the paperback edition.
--The Globe and Mail, February, 2011 --This text refers to the paperback edition.
From Booklist
A new title for this revamping of the pioneering science 'comic', DNA for Beginners (1983), is appropriate because so much productive research has occurred since the first edition, as the revision's peppering of post-1983 dates confirms. Yet the book's core illustrated technical explanations of DNA replication, gene expression, cloning and sequencing genes, cloning organisms, making tissue from stem cells, and other processes is probably little altered and distinguishes the book from its most obvious look-alike, The Stuff of Life (2009), by Mark Schultz, Kevin Cannon, and Zander Cannon. While Stuff is a genuine graphic novel with plot, characters, through-drawn text, and all DNA was written first and then illustrated. Although he hardly eschews cartooning and caricature, including inspired parodies of great cartoonists (Daumier, Tenniel, Crumb, etc.), Van Loon functions far more as an ace creator of visual analogies of physical realities too small to be seen unaided or understood even when exponentially magnified. As for Rosenfield and Ziff's text, it's at the collegiate introductory level, whereas Schultz's is superb for high-schoolers and the less technically literate rest of us. --Ray Olson --This text refers to the hardcover edition.
From the Back Cover
"A unique, richly detailed, and fun biography of DNA grounded in deep historical and philosophical knowledge. Israel Rosenfield, Edward Ziff, and Borin Van Loon give us everything we need to know about biology's most important molecule."
--OLIVER SACKS, author of The Mind's Eye and The Many Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
--OLIVER SACKS, author of The Mind's Eye and The Many Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
"This is a remarkable book on DNA, the molecule that lies at the core of genetics. The book is novel, easy to read, and fun and combines excellent cartoons with good personal vignettes. It can be read on its own or as a supplement to a conventional textbookI spent many years mastering genetics yet learned new and valuable things from this book. Take a look; you will not be disappointed."
--ROBERT TRIVERS, Rutgers University, winner of the Crafoord Prize in Biosciences --This text refers to the paperback edition.
Review
All the main points are here—the discoveries, the competition among scientists, the great debate over where genetic engineering may lead us.... For anyone who knows something about of the subject, DNA is fun. For those whose ignorance is total, it offers a good first step toward literacy in the world's most important language.
(NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW)Read it and enjoy it, and try to give it to your friends before they give it to you.
About the Author
Israel Rosenfield received an M.D. from the New York University School of Medicine and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He is a professor at the City University of New York and his books, which have been translated into a number of languages, include The Invention of Memory: A New View of the Brain; The Strange, Familiar, and Forgotten: An Anatomy of Consciousness (revised and expanded French edition, 2005); and the satirical novel Freud's 'Megalomania', a New York Times notable book of the year. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books. A frequent speaker at international art/science events, he has written essays and satirical pieces for a number of exhibition catalogues of contemporary artists.
Edward Ziff studied Chemistry at Columbia University and received his PhD in Biochemistry at Princeton University. He then joined the laboratory of DNA sequencing pioneer Fred Sanger in Cambridge, where Ziff helped to develop the first DNA sequencing techniques. He has worked on problems of animal virus gene control at the London Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories and transcriptional regulation in animal cells at the Rockefeller University in New York. Ziff has also been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and his research includes many "firsts" in the areas of gene structure and control, cancer biology, and, more recently, brain function. He is professor of biochemistry and neural science at the New York University School of Medicine.
Borin Van Loon has been a freelance illustrator since 1977. He has designed and illustrated fifteen documentary comic books on subjects from Darwin to Psychotherapy and Buddha to Statistics. He created an eclectic collage/cartoon mural on the subject of DNA and genetics for the Health Matters Gallery in London's Science Museum. --This text refers to the paperback edition.
Edward Ziff studied Chemistry at Columbia University and received his PhD in Biochemistry at Princeton University. He then joined the laboratory of DNA sequencing pioneer Fred Sanger in Cambridge, where Ziff helped to develop the first DNA sequencing techniques. He has worked on problems of animal virus gene control at the London Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories and transcriptional regulation in animal cells at the Rockefeller University in New York. Ziff has also been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and his research includes many "firsts" in the areas of gene structure and control, cancer biology, and, more recently, brain function. He is professor of biochemistry and neural science at the New York University School of Medicine.
Borin Van Loon has been a freelance illustrator since 1977. He has designed and illustrated fifteen documentary comic books on subjects from Darwin to Psychotherapy and Buddha to Statistics. He created an eclectic collage/cartoon mural on the subject of DNA and genetics for the Health Matters Gallery in London's Science Museum. --This text refers to the paperback edition.
Product details
- ASIN : B006VFJKJU
- Publisher : Columbia University Press; 1st edition (February 2, 2011)
- Publication date : February 2, 2011
- Language : English
- Print length : 337 pages
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