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Science 20 April 2007:
Vol. 316. no. 5823, p. 373
DOI: 10.1126/science.1130345
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DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:
An Intelligent Primer

Nipam H. Patel

Coming to Life
How Genes Drive Development
by Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Kales Press, Carlsbad, CA, 2006. 180 pp. $29.95, C$42. ISBN 9780967007670.
Nüsslein-Volhard's survey of developmental biology for a popular audience includes such topics as controlling genes, molecular prepatterning, evodevo, body plans, cloning, and gene therapy.
The reviewer is in the Department of Integrative Biology, the Department of Molecular Cell Biology, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3140, USA. E-mail: nipam{at}uclink.berkeley.edu

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