Author: Angela N. H. Creager
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: virus, model, experimental, tobacco, life, mosaic
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2001-12-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0226120260
ISBN-13: 9780226120263
We normally think of viruses in terms of the devastating diseases they cause, from smallpox to AIDS. But 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 also played a crucial role in the development of molecular biology.Focusing on the tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) research conducted in Nobel laureate Wendell Stanley’s lab, Creager argues that TMV served as a model system for virology and molecular biology, much as the fruit fly and laboratory mouse have for genetics an
Authors:Debbie Bookchin, Jim Schumacher,
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Keywords: virus, vaccine, millions, polio, americans, exposed, contaminated, causing, true, story, cancer, monkey
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2004-04-29
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0312278721
ISBN-13: 9780312278724
Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine has taken on an almost legendary quality as a medical miracle, for it largely eradicated one of the most feared diseases of the 20th century. But the story of the vaccine has a dark side, one that has never been fully told before...Between 1954 and 1963, close to 98 million Americans received polio vaccinations contaminated with a carcinogenic monkey virus, now known as SV40. A concerted government effort downplayed the incident, and it was generally accepted that although oncogenic to laboratory animals, SV40 was harmless to humans. But now SV40 in showing up
Author: M. J. Studdert
Publisher: Elsevier
Keywords: equines, infections, virus
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 1996-11-01
List price: $299.00
ISBN-10: 0444825274
ISBN-13: 9780444825278
Hardbound. The series Virus Infections of Vertebrates is intended to supplement the plethora of monographs devoted to individual viruses. It was the editors’ aim to present a "zoocentric" approach instead of the "virocentric" course most authors follow. This sixth volume in the series provides an up-to-date overview of the main viruses affecting equines. Its approach is pragmatic, with an emphasis on essential and useful facts rather than on detail of disease history or molecular data. The organization of the chapters is strictly hierarchical and follows virus taxonomy. At the beginning
Author: Barry Silverstein
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: virus, doomsday
Number of Pages: 338
Published: 2003-02-13
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0595268838
ISBN-13: 9780595268832
This breathtaking novel, set against the backdrop of the software world and the Internet, takes you on a thrill ride from Massachusetts to California.Marty Gladstone and TJ Gatwick are two powerful software entrepreneurs in a race to be first to market with a new operating system. The influential Silicon Valley journalist, Erin Keliher, can make or break either product. But her loyalty shifts as she gets involved with one of the two men.Then everything goes haywire: Erin becomes the reluctant conduit for a brilliant yet warped computer hacker named Doomsday who has created a virus that is virt
Author:
Publisher: Academic Press
Keywords: volume, research, virus, advances
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 2008-12-08
List price: $156.00
ISBN-10: 0123743222
ISBN-13: 9780123743220
Published since 1953, Advances in Virus Research covers a diverse range of in-depth reviews providing a valuable overview of the current field of virology. The impact factor for 2006 is 3.48 placing it 7th in the highly competitive category of virology. * Contributions from leading authorities * Informs and updates on all the latest developments in the field
Author: Clifford Pickover
Publisher: Lulu.com
Keywords: virus, heaven
Number of Pages: 388
Published: 2007-04-11
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 1430329696
ISBN-13: 9781430329695
The New York Times writes, "Pickover contemplates realms beyond our known reality." From one of the most original voices in imaginative nonfiction comes a stunning novel of speculation on the afterlife, immortality, and the existence of the human soul. "The Heaven Virus" is inspired by virtual universes making headlines today and offers readers a glimpse of ultimate spiritual technologies for the 22nd century and a mystic encounter in an age of electronic gods. "The Heaven Virus" blends humor, psychedelia, and hope in a meditation on the outer limits of our culture, evolutionary destiny, and i
Author: Mary Chapman
Publisher: Evans Brothers Ltd
Keywords: shades, virus
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2007-07-13
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0237532069
ISBN-13: 9780237532062
