The Life of a Virus

The Life of a Virus

Einband:
Fester Einband
EAN:
9780226120256
Untertitel:
Tobacco Mosaic Virus as an Experimental Model, 1930-1965
Genre:
Naturwissenschaften allgemein
Autor:
Angela N. H. Creager
Herausgeber:
The University of Chicago Press
Anzahl Seiten:
352
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.12.2001
ISBN:
978-0-226-12025-6

Autorentext
Angela N. H. Creager is an associate professor in the Department of History and the Program in the History of Sciences at Princeton University.

Klappentext
Focusing on the tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) research conducted in Nobel laureate Wendell Stanley's lab, Angela N. H. Creager argues that TMV served as a model system for virology and molecular biology, much as the fruit fly and laboratory mouse have been models in genetics and cancer research. She examines how the experimental techniques and instruments Stanley and his colleagues developed for studying TMV were generalized, not just to other labs working on TMV, but also to research on other diseases such as poliomyelitis and influenza and to studies of genes and cell organelles. In "The Life of a Virus," Angela N. H. Creager introduces us to a plant virus that has taught us much of what we know about all viruses, including the lethal ones, and that has also played a crucial role in the development of molecular biology.

Zusammenfassung
In this text, Angela N.H. Creager introduces the reader to the plant virus that taught much of what we know about all viruses, including the lethal ones, and that also played a crucial role in the development of molecular biology.


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