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Series
Publisher
EBSCO Information Services, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xii, 533 pages).
Language
English
Description
Provides a three-volume set with more than 500 essays on diseases, biology, techniques, methodologies, genetic engineering, ethics, and social issues.
Series
Publisher
EBSCO Information Services, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiv, 500 pages).
Language
English
Description
Provides a three-volume set with more than 500 essays on diseases, biology, techniques, methodologies, genetic engineering, ethics, and social issues.
Series
Publisher
EBSCO Information Services, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxvi, 541 pages).
Language
English
Description
Provides a three-volume set with more than 500 essays on diseases, biology, techniques, methodologies, genetic engineering, ethics, and social issues.
Author
Language
English
Description
Driven by a passion to understand how nature works and to turn discoveries into inventions, Doudna and her collaborators turned a curiosity of nature into an invention that will transform the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions. Isaacson explores the development of CRISPR and the race to create vaccines for coronavirus will hasten our transition...
6) Genetics
Publisher
Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (4 volumes) : color illustrations
Language
English
Description
This set explores the history, theory, technology, ethics, and uses (and misuses) of genetic knowledge. Topics span the field from classical genetics to molecular genetics to population genetics.
Author
Language
English
Description
"How far would you go to find The One? A simple DNA test is all it takes. Just a quick mouth swab and soon you'll be matched with your perfect partner--the one you're genetically made for. That's the promise made by Match Your DNA. A decade ago, the company announced that they had found the gene that pairs each of us with our soul mate. Since then, millions of people around the world have been matched. But the discovery has its downsides: test results...
Author
Series
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
3rd edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (400 pages).
Language
English
Description
Your no-nonsense guide to genetics With rapid advances in genomic technologies, genetic testing has become a key part of both clinical practice and research. Scientists are constantly discovering more about how genetics plays a role in health and disease, and healthcare providers are using this information to more accurately identify their patients' particular medical needs. Genetic information is also increasingly being used for a wide range of non-clinical...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 255 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Explains new concepts in human genetics and health that indicate that the fundamental nature of the human genome is much more fluid and flexible than originally thought.
12) Next: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
Michael Crichton, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park, comes an astounding, eye-opening look at the world of genetics as it's happening now, told as only Michael Crichton can tell it, with lightening fast pacing and thrilling chases.
Welcome to our genetic world. Fast, furious, and out of control. This is not the world of the future—it's the world right now. Is a loved one missing some body parts?
...Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxx, 494 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An insightful history of the first hundred years of DNA, Unraveling The Double Helix tells the story one of the greatest triumphs of modern science. Unraveling the Double Helix covers the most colorful period in the history of DNA, from the discovery of "nuclein" in the late 1860s to the publication of James Watson's The Double Helix in 1968. These hundred years included the establishment of the Nobel Prize, antibiotics, x-ray crystallography, the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Explains how we are discovering that complex life is ironically much simpler than anyone ever expected. Perhaps the most surprising finding of evo devo, evolutionary developmental biology, is the discovery that a small number of primitive genes led to the formation of fundamental organs and appendages "in all animal forms."
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Why are some of us male and others female? What makes us short or tall, blond or brunette, light-skinned or dark? Why do some people look like their relatives, while others don't? What causes defects of biochemistry that lead to debilitating illnesses and physical or mental handicaps? The answer to all these questions is genetics. In this refreshingly clear layperson's overview, distinguished geneticist Richard V. Kowles elucidates the importance...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 369 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Crisscrossing the continent, a renowned geneticist provides a groundbreaking examination of America through its DNA.
20) The violinist's thumb: and other lost tales of love, war, and genius, as written by our genetic code
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In The Disappearing Spoon, bestselling author Sam Kean unlocked the mysteries of the periodic table. In THE VIOLINIST'S THUMB, he explores the wonders of the magical building block of life: DNA. There are genes to explain crazy cat ladies, why other people have no fingerprints, and why some people survive nuclear bombs. Genes illuminate everything from JFK's bronze skin (it wasn't a tan) to Einstein's genius. They prove that Neanderthals and humans...
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