Biologen 08

Chasing Shadows: My Life Tracking the Great White Shark

Autoren: Greg Skomal, Ret Talbot

Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone's Underdog (The Alpha Wolves of Yellowstone, 1)

Autor: Rick McIntyre
Vorwort: Robert Redford

Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep

Autor: Kenneth Miller

Planting the World: Joseph Banks and his Collectors: An Adventurous History of Botany

Autor: Jordan Goodman

Leben mit Licht und Farbe: Ein biochemisches Gespräch (Lives in Chemistry – Lebenswerke in der Chemie: ISSN 2747-8696)

Autoren: Dieter Oesterhelt, Mathias Grote

The Genome War: How Craig Venter Tried to Capture the Code of Life and Save the World

Autor: James Shreeve

Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz

Autoren: Lucette Matalon Lagnado, Sheila Cohn Dekel

Extremophiles: Where It All Began

Koki Horikoshi

Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome

Venki Ramakrishnan

Hood: Trailblazer of the Genomics Age

Luke Timmerman, David Baltimore

Lee Hood did that rarest of things. He enabled scientists to see things they couldn't see before and do things they hadn't dreamed of doing. Scientists can now sequence complete human genomes in a day, setting in motion a revolution that is personalizing medicine.

Hood, a son of the American West, was an unlikely candidate to transform biology. But with ferocious drive, he led a team at Caltech that developed the automated D N A sequencer, the tool that paved the way for the Human Genome Project. He captivated scientists with his almost religious fervor for the new biology enabled by the machines. Hood's brilliance, rebellion, enthusiasm, and ego earned him detractors as well as admirers. His management style, once described as "creative anarchy", alienated many. Some of his collaborators seethed, claiming he took too much credit. Fellow Caltech biologists charged that his empire building was out of control and ousted him as their chairman. A fraud in his lab made him consider, for a moment, quitting science.

Wooed by money from Bill Gates, Hood started over at the University of Washington, creating the world's first Department of Molecular Biotechnology. Seven years later, his impatience for rules drove him to depart. He left at age 61 to start his own Institute for Systems Biology. Would he finally achieve the ultimate application of the genome project - personalized medicine?

In Hood: Trailblazer of the Genomics Age, journalist Luke Timmerman zeroes in on a charismatic, controversial personality. Never-before-reported details are drawn from the scientist's confidential files, public records, and more than 150 interviews with Hood and his family, friends, collaborators, and detractors. The result is not just a revealing portrait of one of the most influential biologists of our time but a deeply human look at science itself.

Darwin and the Barnacle: The Story of One Tiny Creature and History's Most Spectacular Scientific Breakthrough

Rebecca Stott

The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution (Great Discoveries)

David Quammen

Metchnikoff and the Origins of Immunology: From Metaphor to Theory (Monographs on the History and Philosophy of Biology)

Alfred I. Tauber, Leonid Chernyak

Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World

Sy Montgomery, Temple Grandin

Entschlüsselt: Mein Genom, mein Leben

J. Craig Venter

Lessons from the Lobster: Eve Marder's Work in Neuroscience (Mit Press)

Charlotte Nassim

The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA

James D. Watson

By identifying the structure of D N A, the molecule of life, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionized biochemistry and won themselves a Nobel Prize. At the time, Watson was only 24, a young scientist hungry to make his mark. His uncompromisingly honest account of the heady days of their thrilling sprint against other world-class researchers to solve one of science's greatest mysteries gives a dazzlingly clear picture of a world of brilliant scientists with great gifts, very human ambitions, and bitter rivalries.

With humility unspoiled by false modesty, Watson relates his and Crick's desperate efforts to beat Linus Pauling to the Holy Grail of life sciences: the identification of the basic building block of life. Never has a scientist been so truthful in capturing in words the flavor of his work.