The art and Politics of Science
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Origins and beginnings -- From literature to medicine to science -- The first taste of scientific success -- Retroviruses and their replication cycle -- The RSV oncogene and its progenitor -- How proto-oncogenes participate in cancer -- Targeted therapies for human cancers -- Partnerships in science -- The road to Building One -- Being NIH director -- Priority setting -- Bad times and good times as NIH director -- Embryos, cloning, stem cells, and the promise of reprogramming -- Global science and global health -- Science publishing and science libraries in the Internet age.
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PUBLISHED
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2009.
Year Published: 2009
Description: xii, 315 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0393061280
9780393061284
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Varmus, Harold.
Varmus, Harold.
National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
Medical scientists -- Biography.
Nobel Prize winners -- Biography.