From X-rays to DNA: How Engineering Drives Biology (MIT Press)
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (726 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262019779 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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Decoding the double helix structure of DNA, for example, only became possible after significant advances in such technologies as X-ray diffraction and gel electrophoresis. Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis improved as new technologies -- including the stethoscope, the microscope, and the X-ray -- developed. Engineering has been an essential collaborator in biological research and breakthroughs in biology are often enabled by technological advances. He presents extensive case studies and introduces a metric to measure the time between technological development and biological discovery.Investigating a series of major biological discoveries that range from pasteurization to electron microscopy, Lee finds that it took an average of forty years for the necessary technology to become available for laboratory use. Only then, he argues, will we see the rapid advances in the life sciences that are cr
Langer, awarded the 2002 Charles Stark Draper Prize, is an Institute Professor and a member of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research.. Jeffrey Drazen is Editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine and Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical Schoo
Sharp, awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology in 1993, is Institute Professor at the Koch Center.Robert S. Lee is CEO of Lumicell Diagnostics, Inc., and has a research appointment at MIT's Koch Center for Integrative Cancer Research. Jeffrey Drazen is Editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine and Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.Phillip A. Langer, awarded the 2002 Charles Stark Draper Prize, is an Institute Professor and a member of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research.. About the AuthorDavid W