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Kevin Davies


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London, England, The United Kingdom
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Born and raised in London, Kevin Davies studied at Oxford University and moved to the U.S. in 1987 after earning his PhD in genetics. He endured two years at the bench before seeking refuge in the editorial office of Nature magazine. He was the founding editor of the journal Nature Genetics and has also worked at Cell Press and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is currently the editor of Bio-IT World magazine, based in Boston.

The $1,000 Genome is Kevin's third book, and second for the Free Press. He published Cracking the Genome, about the race for the Human Genome Project, in 2000. His first book, Breakthrough, co-authored with Michael White, was about the race to identify the "breast cancer gene" in the mid-'90s.
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Editing Humanity: The CRISP...

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The $1,000 Genome: The Revo...

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Cracking the Genome: Inside...

3.45 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2001 — 13 editions
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The Sequence : Inside the R...

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Breakthrough: The Race to F...

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De code van het leven. De o...

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Decifrando o Genoma

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Modern Medicine for the MRCP

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La conquista del genoma hum...

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“CRISPR spacers are first transcribed into a long contiguous RNA, which is then sliced into discrete CRISPR RNAs corresponding to individual spacers. This RNA then forms a complex with Cas proteins that targets the corresponding”
Kevin Davies, Editing Mankind: Humanity in the Age of CRISPR and Gene Editing



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