Hacking the Code of Life

by Nessa Carey

  V

  vaccination 1, 2

  Vertex Pharmaceuticals 1

  Viagra 1

  Victoria, Queen 1

  Vienna, University of 1, 2

  Vilnius, University of 1

  viral infections 1

  vitamin A 1

  W

  Wakefield, Andrew 1

  Washington Post 1

  water, competition for 1

  Watson, James 1

  wheat 1, 2, 3

  Wilkins, Maurice 1

  wisdom 1

  World Health Organization 1, 2, 3

  X

  xenotransplantation 1

  Y

  Yamanaka, Shinya 1

  yeast 1, 2

  yellow fever 1, 2

  yields, of crops 1

  Z

  Zayner, Josiah 1

  Zhang, Feng 1, 2, 3, 4

  Zika virus 1, 2

  zygotes 1, 2, 3

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Nessa Carey worked in the biotech and pharma industry for thirteen years and is a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London. Her previous books for Icon are The Epigenetics Revolution (2011), described by The Guardian as ‘a book that would have had Darwin swooning’, and Junk DNA (2015), ‘a cutting-edge guide to the ever-more mysterious genome’ (New Scientist).

  Also by Nessa Carey

  The Epigenetics Revolution

  Junk DNA

  COPYRIGHT

  Published in the UK and USA in 2019 by

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  ISBN: 978–178578–497–2

  eISBN 978–178578–498–9

  Text copyright © 2019 Nessa Carey

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