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Now: When Paige Meyer gets an email from a DNA testing website announcing that her father is a man she never met, she is convinced there must be a mistake. Digging deeper into her mother's past-- and her own feelings of being the odd child out growing up-- Paige begins to question everything she thought she knew. What does it mean for Paige's memories of her father, a man she idolized and whose death she is still grieving? 1975: Betsy Kaplan, a straightlaced...
Author
Series
Robin Lockwood novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A young woman accuses a prominent local college athlete of rape. Convicted with the help of undisputable DNA evidence, the athlete swears his innocence and threatens both his lawyer and his accuser as he's sent to prison. Not long after, there's another rape and the DNA test shows that the same person committed both rapes--which is seemingly impossible since the man convicted of the first rape was in prison at the time of the second one. Now, the...
10) The invisible history of the human race: how DNA and history shape our identities and our futures
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"How biology, psychology, and history shape us as individuals. We are doomed to repeat history if we fail to learn from it, but how are we affected by the forces that are invisible to us? In The Invisible History of the Human Race Christine Kenneally draws on cutting-edge research to reveal how both historical artifacts and DNA tell us where we come from and where we may be going. While some books explore our genetic inheritance and popular television...
12) The minders
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"The new high concept thriller from the author of The Passengers and the word-of-mouth sensation The One, soon to be a Netflix original series. In the 21st century, information is king. But computers can be hacked and files can be broken into - so a unique government initiative has been born. Five ordinary people have been selected to become "minders" - the latest weapon in thwarting cyberterrorism. Transformed by a revolutionary medical procedure,...
13) Genesis
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Language
English
Description
When the body of twenty-eight-year-old social worker Kera Jacobsen shows up on Chief New York City Medical Examiner Laurie Montgomery's autopsy table, at first it appears she was the victim of a tragic yet routine drug overdose. But for Laurie and her new pathology resident, the brilliant but enigmatic Dr. Aria Nichols, little things aren't adding up. Kera's family and friends swear she never touched drugs. Administrators from the hospital where Kera...
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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...
17) Genetics
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Series
Publisher
ABDO Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Explores the development of genetics and the many uses it provides us with, such as how they are inherited from parent to child, help solve crimes, and identify disease-causing genes."--
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Publisher
LIBRARIES UNLIMITED, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
ix, 173 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
DNA testing for genealogical purposes has existed for nearly a decade and a half, and is now becoming accepted as another tool in the kit of well-rounded genealogists. Dowell explains this fast-growing application of genetics, and enables general readers to understand how genetic information can be applied to verify or refute documentary research-- and to break down frustrating walls that block the discovery of ancestors. He provides guidance on deciding...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
v, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
As the Human Genome Project completed its mapping of the entire human genome, hopes ran high that we would rapidly be able to use our knowledge of human genes to tackle many inherited diseases, and understand what makes us unique among animals. But things didn't turn out that way... but the emerging picture is if anything far more exciting. Parrington gives an outline of the deeper genome, involving layers of regulatory elements controlling and coordinating...
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