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Biotechnologist Leroy Hood and longevity researcher Nathan Price journey to the future of health. Medicine today is a hit-or-miss affair that tackles symptoms long after disease sets in. Hood and Price explore the emerging technologies that will focus health care on extending wellness, making it personal, precise, and truly preventative.

About the author

Leroy Hood, MD, developed the DNA synthesizing technology that made possible the Human Genome Project and is cofounder of the Institute for Systems Biology. A pioneer in the fields of systems biology, proteomics, and P4 medicine, he has won the Kyoto Prize, the Lasker Award, the Heinz Award, and the National Medal of Science.Nathan Price is Chief Science Officer of Thorne HealthTech and Professor at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging. Selected as an Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine by the National Academy of Medicine, he received the Alexander & Mildred Seelig Award and the Grace A. Goldsmith Award for his work on scientific wellness and has coauthored over 200 peer-reviewed scientific publications.

Summary

Biotechnologist Leroy Hood and longevity researcher Nathan Price journey to the future of health. Medicine today is a hit-or-miss affair that tackles symptoms long after disease sets in. Hood and Price explore the emerging technologies that will focus health care on extending wellness, making it personal, precise, and truly preventative.

Product details

• Authors: Leroy Hood, Leroy Price Hood, Hood Leroy, Nathan Price
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2023
• EAN: 9780674245945
• ISBN: 978-0-674-24594-5
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Public Health, SELF-HELP / Aging, MEDICAL / Genetics, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine, Popular medicine & health, Medical screening, Coping with illness & specific conditions, Public health & preventive medicine, Medical Genetics, Genetics (non-medical), Popular medicine and health, Public health and preventive medicine, Coping with old age, HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / General, Coping with / advice about ageing