something fishy
A couple of book reviews I wrote some time ago came out this month:
Gross M:
Chemistry & Industry No 9 (7.05.), 29-30
Musical metaphor (review of "The music of life -- biology beyond the genome" by Denis Noble)
Gross M:
Chemistry & Industry No 10 (28.05.), 31-32
Reel life (review of "When a gene makes you smell like a fish... and other tales about the genes in your body" by Lisa Seachrist Chiu)
I really liked both books a lot for different reasons. Noble's effort is kind of a popularized manifesto for systems biology, very deep and philosophical.
Chiu's book is light and bubbly, but it succeeds in bringing popular genetics into the 21st century while remaining accessible.
2007-05-29 08:51:18 GMT