Genetics category: 1528 books
The Journey of Man
A Genetic Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Around 60,000 years ago, a man—genetically identical to us—lived in Africa. Every person alive today is descended from him. How did this real-life Adam wind up as the father of us all? What happened to the descendants of other men who lived at the same time? And why, if modern humans share a single...
Food, Inc.
Mendel to Monsanto--The Promises and Perils of the
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
For most people, the global war over genetically modified foods is a distant and confusing one. The battles are conducted in the mystifying language of genetics.
A handful of corporate "life science" giants, such as Monsanto, are pitted against a worldwide network of anticorporate ecowarriors...
Me, Myself, and Why
Searching for the Science of Self
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
As diverse as people appear to be, all of our genes and brains are nearly identical. In Me, Myself, and Why, Jennifer Ouellette dives into the miniscule ranges of variation to understand just what sets us apart. She draws on cutting-edge research in genetics, neuroscience, and psychology-enlivened...
Super Genes
Unlock the Astonishing Power of Your DNA for Optimum Health and Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
The authors of the New York Times bestseller Super Brain present a bold new understanding of our genes and how simple changes in lifestyle can boost genetic activity. The leap into "radical well-being" is a promise waiting to be fulfilled.
"You are not simply the sum total of the genes you...
The Age of Genomes
Tales from the Front Lines of Genetic Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
A leading geneticist explores what promises to be one of the most transformative advances in health and medicine in history
Almost every week, another exciting headline appears about new advances in the field of genetics. Genetic testing is experiencing the kind of exponential growth once seen...
The 10,000 Year Explosion
How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
Resistance to malaria. Blue eyes. Lactose tolerance. What do all of these traits have in common? Every one of them has emerged in the last 10,000 years.
Scientists have long believed that the “great leap forward” that occurred some 40,000 to 50,000 years ago in Europe marked end of significant...
Breathing Race into the Machine
The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
In the antebellum South, plantation physicians used a new medical device—the spirometer—to show that lung volume and therefore vital capacity were supposedly less in black slaves than in white citizens. At the end of the Civil War, a large study of racial difference employing the spirometer appeared...
The Epigenetics Revolution
How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease, and Inheritance
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Epigenetics can potentially revolutionize our understanding of the structure and behavior of biological life on Earth. It explains why mapping an organism's genetic code is not enough to determine how it develops or acts and shows how nurture combines with nature to engineer biological diversity....
Time, Love , Memory
A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
The story of Nobel Prize–winning discoveries regarding the molecular mechanisms controlling the body’s circadian rhythm.
How much of our fate is decided before we are born? Which of our characteristics is inscribed in our DNA? Weiner brings us into Benzer's Fly Rooms at the California...
by Nathaniel Comfort
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Almost daily we hear news stories, advertisements, and scientific reports that promise genetic medicine will make us live longer, enable doctors to identify and treat diseases before they start, and individualize our medical care. But surprisingly, a century ago eugenicists were making the same promises....
by John Quackenbush
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
The DNA sequence that comprises the human genome--the genetic blueprint found in each of our cells--is undoubtedly the greatest code ever to be broken. Completed at the dawn of a new millennium, the feat electrified both the scientific community and the general public with its tantalizing promise...
My European Family
The First 54,000 Years
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Karin Bojs grew up in a small, broken family. At her mother's funeral she felt this more keenly than ever. As a science journalist she was eager to learn more about herself, her family and the interconnectedness of society. After all, we're all related. And in a sense, we are all family.
My...
Almost Chimpanzee
Redrawing the Lines That Separate Us from Them
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
The captivating story of how a band of scientists has redrawn the genetic and behavioral lines that separate humans from our nearest cousins
In the fall of 2005, a band of researchers cracked the code of the chimpanzee genome and provided a startling new window into the differences between...
The Forever Fix
Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Fascinating narrative science that explores the next frontier in medicine and genetics through the very personal prism of the children and families gene therapy has touched.
Eight-year-old Corey Haas was nearly blind from a hereditary disorder when his sight was restored through a delicate...