Title:
DNA [videorecording] / a Windfall Films production for Thirteen/WNET New York in association with Channel Four ; produced by Thomas Alkin, David Glover, Carlo Masserella ; directed by Carlo Massarella, David Glover.
Author:
Dugan, David.
Goldblum, Jeff, 1952-
Alkin, Thomas.
Glover, David.
Masserella, Carlo.
WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
Windfall Films (Firm)
Channel Four (Great Britain)
Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Publication Information:
[Princeton, N.J.] : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2003.
Call Number:
QP624 .D6625 2003 V.1
Abstract:
This programs tells the story of how researchers have developed radically new ways to treat cancer by tracing it back to its origins: its DNA. The program focuses on two pioneering efforts: the race between Dr. Mary Claire King and Dr. Mark Skolnick, founder of Myriad Genetics to isolate the gene linked to breast cancer, and Dr. Brian Druker's work that eventually led to an anti-cancer drug which cures Chronic Myeloid Leukemia. Also looks at the work of David Botstein in discovering gene markers and Per Lonning, Botstein and partner Pat Brown who developed a micro-array technique to reveal differences between seemingly identical cancers.
Added Uniform Title:
DNA (Television program)
Physical Description:
5 videodiscs (285 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Title from disc label.
Title of book is "DNA : the secret of life" by James D. Watson ; published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
Videodisc release of the PBS television series ; originally produced in 2003.
Funding provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Corporate Subject:
Added Title:
Secret of life.
Playing God.
Human race.
Curing cancer.
Pandora's box.
Subject Term:
Contents:
v. 1. The secret of life -- v. 2. Playing God -- v. 3. The human race -- v. 4. Curing cancer -- v. 5. Pandora's box.
Reading Level:
MPAA rating: Not rated.
Subject:
Terms Governing Use:
Public performance rights - CGC.