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19 06, 2015

“Interesting on many levels!”

By Joram Piatigorsky|2020-01-07T10:02:49-05:00June 19th, 2015|Categories: Jellyfish Have Eyes!, Reviews & Testimonials|0 Comments

A wonderful book! The book's main character is a scientist, an expert on diseases affecting eyes, who becomes fascinated by jellyfish. (They do have eyes…very complex eyes!) The book is interesting on many levels: the value of basic scientific research; the pressure to link research to medical advances in order to obtain funding, and the politics of funding scientific research. I loved the descriptions linking scientific discovery and creativity.

The author, Joran Piatigorsky, is an internationally respected, award-winning scientist whose specialty is the molecular biology of the eye. This is his first novel. I look forward to reading more of his work.

–Deborah Hartman

8 06, 2015

“Ricardo Sztein is an unforgettable character”

By Joram Piatigorsky|2020-01-07T10:11:43-05:00June 8th, 2015|Categories: Jellyfish Have Eyes!, Reviews & Testimonials|Tags: author, Robert Bausch|0 Comments

"This novel draws you into its web of complex circumstances by degrees, unfolding like a kind of scientific experiment; it unravels the entire research and scientific community—challenges the tenets of evolution, knowledge, being and believing. The unity of knowledge, knowledge itself is turned upside down. Ricardo Sztein is an unforgettable character, and this story is definitely a winner."

–Robert Bausch, author, A Hole in the Earth, and Far as the Eye Can See

8 06, 2015

“Rich dystopian novel”

By Joram Piatigorsky|2020-01-07T14:06:10-05:00June 8th, 2015|Categories: Jellyfish Have Eyes!, Reviews & Testimonials|Tags: author, Barbara Esstman|0 Comments

"In this rich dystopian novel Ricardo Sztein risks all to follow his intellectual curiosity in defiance of the extreme utilitarianism of his society. The spiritual cousin of Dickens’ “Hard Times”, with a nod to Big Brother, “Jellyfish” projects our current pragmatism into a frightening but possible future. A wonderful book for those who love creativity, science and the great gifts of serendipity."

–Barbara Esstman, author, The Other Anna and Night Ride Home

8 06, 2015

“Gives a chilling warning that is sure to stimulate debate”

By Joram Piatigorsky|2020-01-07T21:14:36-05:00June 8th, 2015|Categories: Jellyfish Have Eyes!, Reviews & Testimonials|Tags: Joseph Horwitz, Ph.D.|0 Comments

“The time is the near future when an economically stressed government threatens academic freedom of basic scientists. In ‘Jellyfish Have Eyes,’ an award-winning scientist pays a heavy price for his breakthrough discoveries that jellyfish interact and visualize evolution. Piatigorsky’s imaginative account that Dr. Ricardo Sztein’s path from discovery to condemnation gives a chilling warning that is sure to stimulate debate on the role of government in dictating the direction of scientific research.”

–Joseph Horwitz, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, UCLA School of Medicine

2 01, 2015

“likely alter the prevailing view of gene sharing”

By Joram Piatigorsky|2017-04-28T20:22:16-04:00January 2nd, 2015|Categories: Gene Sharing and Evolution, Reviews & Testimonials|0 Comments

"Every textbook of molecular evolution has a section on gene sharing, but this is the first book entirely devoted to the topic. Piatigorsky considers almost all aspects of gene sharing, provides numerous examples, and discusses the importance and contribution of gene sharing to evolution. He argues forcefully that gene sharing is widespread in many genomes. [...]

2 01, 2015

Praise for Gene Sharing and Evolution

By Joram Piatigorsky|2019-02-18T20:10:26-05:00January 2nd, 2015|Categories: Gene Sharing and Evolution, Reviews & Testimonials|Tags: Gene sharing|0 Comments

“It has been a dogma of evolutionary biology that gene duplication precedes the evolution for a new gene and protein function. Joram Piatigorsky stands this scenario on its head by showing that, tin the case of lens crystallins and probably other families, functional diversity can precede gene duplication. This revolutionary perspective proceeds unexpected insight into [...]