Genetic Information in the Age of DNA Sequencing.

The claim that genes encode and transmit information is a central conceptual tenet in biomedicine. Historians have placed the origins of this claim in the rise of molecular biology after World War II, and philosophers still debate the utility of understanding genes as information for biomedical rese...

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Published in:	Information & Culture Vol. 50; no. 1; pp. 110 - 143
Main Author:	García-Sancho, Miguel
Format:	Article
Published:	University of Texas Press 2015
Subjects:	Nucleotide sequencing DNA History of molecular biology Crick, Francis, 1916-2004 Brenner, Sydney, 1927-2019 Sanger, Frederick, 1918-2013 Encoding Knowledge transfer Twentieth century History
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost