As dramatic as The Double Hex 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.
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As dramatic as The Double Hex 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.
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Natalie Angier defined a few term and had areas of excellent writing, however she meandered through personal lives and chapters could have been deleted for a more effective read about Bob Weinberg,,whom she obsessed about--with no real reason other than she was impressed by research about which she didn't really understand. People in the book are not even a footnote in the big picture of research