Comments on: The Genomics Age: How DNA Technology Is Transforming the Way We Live and Who We Are

By: Janet Wirth

Janet Wirth — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:53 +0000

Gena Smith’s new book, “The Genomics Age,” is a clear guide that explains in layman’s terms the current hot topics in the scientific world. Though not a scientist, Smith is well-known as the former technology correspondent for ABC and her radio shows. The book is a great guide to the debate on stem cells that’s all over the news, and she writes wonderfully on the possible applications in the future of genomics and stem cells.

This book is an excellent demystifier for all the gene, genomics, and DNA topics in the news. It discusses bioethics and the ramifications and consequences of the “genomics” revolution coming about in our world. This book will give you a good understanding of things like what it means for the government to keep a database of DNA and other bio-features. I highly recommend this book.

By: Dr. Renneberg Reinhard

Dr. Renneberg Reinhard — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:43:50 +0000

I am biotechnology professor in Hong Kong teaching Chinese students and writing books for beginners and students myself. So I can truly appreciate Gina Smith' s book. I cannot agree at all with some negative reviews here. The book is a magnificient opus and badly needed, especially for the often ill-informed US readers. I am using the book now for my Introduction to Biotechnology course and let the students read the original.

I would hope it is available soon in German language also for my "blue-eye" obese and unfit countrymen who on one hand use recombinant insulin, antidepressants and novel anti-cancer drugs and reach an ever higher age and lamenting on the other hand against modern bioscientific progress.

Bravo, genius Gina!!

By: Mark H. Goldstein

Mark H. Goldstein — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:52:26 +0000

I dont know a thing about DNA, except what I get from CSI-NY. Gina makes my feeble DNA-challenged mind get it and now understand why its so important.

By: Tom Ryan

Tom Ryan — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:48:15 +0000

This author is no expert in this field. The book says nothing that I and anybody else doesn’t already know. A complete waste of money. Reads like a book for kindergarteners.

By: A. Fielding

A. Fielding — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:10:06 +0000

I bought this book a couple years back when a friend recommended it. I haven't ever taken so long to complete a book but finally, last week, two years later, I completed it.

I had never made it past 5 pages without falling asleep; thanks to this book, my sleeping medication is something I haven't had to take in a long time. I am very very upset that this book is done... Now, I have to read chapters at a time of other books to feel as tired as I do with this one.

Seriously, most of this review is 100% true. This might be a very good history book of DNA research but it's about as much fun as having a root canal while being gang raped in a prison shower. If you have to read this book for some reason, I suppose it is filled with the facts. If you don't have to read this book... Well... It's not much fun. Oh, there are lots of very BIG words though.