Master Control Genes in Development and Evolution: The Homeobox Story (The Terry Lectures Series). Walter J. Gehring

Master Control Genes in Development and Evolution: The Homeobox Story (The Terry Lectures Series)



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Master Control Genes in Development and Evolution: The Homeobox Story (The Terry Lectures Series) Walter J. Gehring ebook pdf
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Page: 236
ISBN: 0300074093, 9780300074093

Many developmental biologists and geneticists have enjoyed reading the literature on the work of Walter Gehring's laboratory. It was thus a great pleasure to peruse a book detailing the behind-the-scenes story of Gehring's seminal contributions to our understanding of homeobox proteins. The most fascinating aspect of Master Control Genes in Development and Evolution is Gehring's genuine amusement with science, embellished by intriguing stories about his colleagues. The scientific information is plainly presented and basic, so that even those who are unfamiliar with developmental genetics can understand it.

A unique and delightful aspect of this book deals with Walter Gehring's mind. He is clearly an exceptionally smart person, driven by an intense intrinsic curiosity about biology. Yet he describes the humanistic features of scientific inquisitiveness: examining why things fly, tracking the migration of birds by radar, and even looking at the toes of a person sitting next to him in an airplane, trying to evaluate whether they have a homeotic transformation.

This book is a testament to the will of Gehring, who was so fascinated by biology that he developed the molecular genetics of the drosophila system to further our understanding of embryogenesis, patterning, and disease. Through this book on homeotic transformation, he has transformed our thoughts regarding the process of discovery. Gehring has a fascination with the press and muses about the crazy titles of newspaper articles describing his work. When the eyeless gene was found to induce eyes in locations where eyes do not normally form, The New York Times published a front-page article entitled, "With New Fly, Science Outdoes Hollywood." With this book, I believe that Gehring has earned the title, "Master of the Master Control Genes."

Reviewed by Leonard Zon, M.D.
Copyright © 1999 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved. The New England Journal of Medicine is a registered trademark of the MMS. Master Control Genes in Development and Evolution offers a vivid introduction to recent findings on how genes control development. In reading it, the layperson will also learn a great deal about the process of discovery through Gehring's particularly warm and personal perspective. Developmental biologists might not care as much about the technical descriptions, but they, too, will enjoy Gehring's accounts, which may seem like looking back at old family movies from their youth. -- Claude Desplan, Science

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