Natural Obsessions: Striving to Unlock the Deepest Secrets of the Cancer Cell

by Natalie Angier

Overview

As dramatic as The Double Helix and as absorbing as The Soul of a New Machine, Natural Obsessions explores the advanced reaches of molecular biology, the nature of the human cell, and the genes that control cancer. It unforgettably portrays some of the best young scientists in the world, the rewards and discouragements of scientific research, and the very process of scientific inquiry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780395924723
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	04/06/1999
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

NATALIE ANGIER is a Pulitzer-Prize winning science columnist for The New York Times. She is the author of several books including The Canon, Woman, The Beauty of the Beastly, and Natural Obsessions. She lives outside Washington, D.C.,

Editorial Reviews

The height of the exhilarating race to discover the cancer gene.”

Boston Globe

A motion picture of science in progress.”

|Los Angeles Times

The debut of one of the few really first-rate writers in science.”

Edward O. Wilson

‘Lively, lucid…Portrays the look and feel of science.”

Washington Post Book World