Research Catalog

Title

DNA : the double helix : perspective and prospective at forty years / edited by Donald A. Chambers.

Publication

New York, N.Y. : New York Academy of Sciences, 1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Chambers, Donald A.

Description

[xxix], 472 pages : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ; v. 758

Uniform Title

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ; v. 758.

Subject

• Nucleic acids > Congresses
• Molecular biology > Congresses
• DNA
• Molecular Biology
• Research Personnel

Genre/Form

Congress.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Preface / Donald A. Chambers -- Forty Years of DNA / Donald A. Chambers -- Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid / J. D. Watson and F. H. C. Crick -- Molecular Structure of Deoxypentose Nucleic Acids / M. H. F. Wilkins, A. R. Stokes and H. R. Wilson -- Molecular Configuration in Sodium Thymonucleate / R. E. Franklin and R. G. Gosling -- Photos from the Conference -- Introduction / Donald A. Chambers -- The Aperiodic Crystal of Heredity / Gunther S. Stent -- Photos from the Past -- Introduction: "On the Shoulders of Giants" / Irving M. Klotz -- A Fifty-Year Perspective on the Genetic Role of DNA / Maclyn McCarty -- DNA in the Decade before the Double Helix / Rollin D. Hotchkiss -- Linus Pauling: Chemist and Molecular Biologist / Alexander Rich -- Historic Reflections on the Clinical Roots of Molecular Biology / Paul Heller -- Introduction / Robert V. Storti -- The Nucleic Acids: A Backward Glance / Alexander Rich --
• Gene Regulatory Proteins and Their Interaction with DNA / Aaron Klug -- Genetics of Retroviruses / Howard M. Temin -- In Memoriam: Howard Temin, the Fierce Scholar / David Baltimore -- In Honor of James D. Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins / Donald A. Chambers -- Greetings / Rodney W. Nichols -- Greetings / Joshua Lederberg -- Intellectual Dawns / Crispin Tickell -- What the Double Helix Has Meant for Basic Biomedical Science: A Personal Commentary / Joshua Lederberg -- Values from a Chicago Upbringing / James D. Watson -- DNA: A Cooperative Discovery / Francis H. C. Crick -- DNA at King's College, London / Maurice H. F. Wilkins -- "The Night Before Crickmas": A Poem and Deliverance / Rollin D. Hotchkiss -- Photos from the Banquet -- Introduction / R. John Solaro -- Mammalian Learning and Memory Studied by Gene Targeting / Susumu Tonegawa -- Circuits / Francois Jacob --
• The NK-2 Homeobox Gene and the Early Development of the Central Nervous System of Drosophila / Marshall Nirenberg, Kohzo Nakayama, Noriko Nakayama, Yongsok Kim, Dervla Mellerick, Lan-Hsiang Wang, Keith O. Webber and Rajnikant Lad -- Introduction / Lord Walton of Detchant -- The Molecular Basis for Phenotypic Diversity of Genetic Disease / David J. Weatherall -- A Molecular Switch for the Consolidation of Long-Term Memory: cAMP-Inducible Gene Expression / Cristina M. Alberini, Mirella Ghirardi, Yan-You Huang, Peter V. Nguyen and Eric R. Kandel -- Molecular Analysis of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: Past, Present, and Future / Kay E. Davies, Jonathon M. Tinsley and Derek J. Blake -- Transgenic Mouse Models of Disease: Altering Adipose Tissue Function in Vivo / Susan R. Ross, Reed A. Graves, Lisa Choy, Veronica Soleveva and Bruce M. Spiegelman -- Recombinant DNA Technology and Oral Medicine / Harold C. Slavkin -- Introduction / Richard Doll --
• The Molecular Basis of Oncogenes and Tumor Suppressor Genes / Robert A. Weinberg -- A Nuclear Tyrosine Kinase Becomes a Cytoplasmic Oncogene / David Baltimore, Ruibao Ren, Genhong Cheng, Konstantina Alexandropoulos and Piera Cicchetti -- Recombinant Toxins: New Therapeutic Agents for Cancer / Ira H. Pastan, Lee H. Pai, Ulrich Brinkmann and David J. Fitzgerald -- Introduction / Richard L. Davidson -- DNA: Template for An Economic Revolution / David A. Jackson -- The Molecular Biology of Thyroid Hormone Action / Ralff C. J. Ribeiro, James W. Apriletti, Brian L. West, Richard L. Wagner, Robert J. Fletterick, Fred Schaufele and John D. Baxter -- Human and Mouse T-Cell Receptor Loci: Genomics, Evolution, Diversity, and Serendipity / Leroy Hood, Lee Rowen and Ben F. Koop -- Introduction / Donald A. Chambers -- Where Will Genome Analysis Lead Us Forty Years On? / Walter Bodmer -- The World We Have Lost / Horace Freeland Judson --
• The Biomedical Revolution at 40 Years: An Overview of the Conference / Donald A. Chambers, Kenneth B. M. Reid and Rhonna L. Cohen.

ISBN

• 0897669053 (alk. paper)
• 0897669061 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

95008848

OCLC

• 32396472
• ocm32396472

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries