Genetics category: 1528 books
Summary of The Emperor of All Maladies
by Siddhartha Mukherjee | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Summary of The Emperor of All Maladies: by Siddhartha Mukherjee | Includes Analysis Preview: Scientist and physician Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies, calls his book a biography of cancer rather than simply a history. The author explores a wide range...
基因：人類最親密的歷史
The Gene: An Intimate History
Language: Chinese
Release Date: July 20, 2018
破解基因，是人類最偉大的冒險，還是最危險的浩劫？
當人類取代上帝，打造完美基因、根除致命因子，
《X戰警》、《惡靈古堡》的時代已經來臨！
電影《羅根》取材自他的研究，
「金鋼狼」休‧傑克曼盛讚：「本書超吸引人！」
人類從何而來？該往何處而去？
普立茲獎得主、紐約時報暢銷書《萬病之王》作者辛達塔．穆克吉
以一本書貫穿基因千年來對人類的影響
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Drawing the Map of Life
Inside the Human Genome Project
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Drawing the Map of Life is the dramatic story of the Human Genome Project from its origins, through the race to order the 3 billion subunits of DNA, to the surprises emerging as scientists seek to exploit the molecule of heredity. It's the first account to deal in depth with the intellectual roots...
The Violinist's Thumb
And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, language, and music, as told by our own DNA.
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...
Regenesis
How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
A Harvard biologist and master inventor explores how new biotechnologies will enable us to bring species back from the dead, unlock vast supplies of renewable energy, and extend human life.
In Regenesis, George Church and science writer Ed Regis explore the possibilities of the emerging field...
DNA
The Story of the Genetic Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
The definitive insider's history of the genetic revolution--significantly updated to reflect the discoveries of the last decade.
James D. Watson, the Nobel laureate whose pioneering work helped unlock the mystery of DNA's structure, charts the greatest scientific journey of our time, from the...
by Thomas Lemke
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Over the past 15 years, a series of empirical studies in different countries have shown that our increasing genetic knowledge leads to new forms of exclusion, disadvantaging and stigmatization. The spectrum of this "genetic discrimination" ranges from disadvantages at work, via problems...
Genome
The Story of the Most Astonishing Scientific Adventure of Our Time—the Attempt to Map All the Genes in the Human Body
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
An “invaluable [and] highly readable” account of the quest to map our DNA, the blueprint for life—and what it means for our future ( The Philadelphia Inquirer).
Genome tells the story of the most ambitious scientific adventure of our time. By gradually isolating and identifying all the...
The Descent of Man
PART 2 & 3
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
"The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex" is a book on evolutionary theory by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871. It was Darwin's second book on evolutionary theory, following his 1859 work, "On The Origin of Species". In "The Descent...
The Descent of Man
PART I
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
"The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex" is a book on evolutionary theory by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871. It was Darwin's second book on evolutionary theory, following his 1859 work, "On The Origin of Species". In "The Descent...
A Troublesome Inheritance
Genes, Race and Human History
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story
Fewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different...
Orphan Black and Philosophy
Grand Theft DNA
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
In Orphan Black, several apparently unconnected women discover that they are exact physical doubles, that there are more of them out there, that they are all illegally produced clones, and that someone is having them killed. They find themselves in the midst of a secret and violent struggle between...
The Family Gene
A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance into a Hopeful Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
A riveting medical mystery about a young woman’s quest to uncover the truth about her likely fatal genetic disorder that opens a window onto the exploding field of genomic medicine
When Joselin Linder was in her twenties her legs suddenly started to swell. After years of misdiagnoses, doctors...
Food for Africa
The Life and Work of a Scientist in GM Crops
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Tracing through anecdote and science the development of a hotly contended area of research, this account expounds the dawn of genetic engineering in the United States in 1974, through the early stages of its uptake in South Africa, to the current situation, in which approximately 80 percent of maize...