by James D. Watson · TAURUS · tapa dura · ISBN 9788430605149
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«ADN. El secreto de la vida» is the scientific essay by James D. Watson with Andrew Berry, published by Taurus in hardcover (478 pages, in Spanish).
James D. Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, reviews in this work the history of genetics, from Mendel to the sequencing of the human genome. With a popularizing style, he mixes personal memories, anecdotes and scientific explanations about the double helix, genes and the ethical and social consequences of genetic research.
Published in 2003, it belongs to the Taurus collection Pensamiento; translation by Irene Cifuentes and Teresa Carretero.
For readers of popular science interested in the history of genetics and in the personal account of one of its protagonists.
James Dewey Watson was an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. In 1953, he and Francis Crick co-authored an academic paper in Nature proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule, building on research by Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling. In 1962, Watson, Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material".
