Beyond the human genome: microbes, metaphors and what it means to be human in an interconnected post-genomic world
Four years after the completion of the Human Genome Project, the US National Institutes for Health launched the Human Microbiome Project on 19 December 2007. Using metaphor analysis, this article investigates reporting in English-language newspapers on advances in microbiomics from 2003 onwards, whe...
Main Authors: | Nerlich, Brigitte, Hellsten, Iina |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
2009
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Online Access: | http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1305/ http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1305/ http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1305/ http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1305/2/Microbes3.pdf |
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