Genetics category: 1528 books
The Tangled Tree
A Radical New History of Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and A New York Times Notable Book of 2018
Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life’s history, with powerful implications for human health...
How to Build a Dinosaur
The New Science of Reverse Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
A world-renowned paleontologist reveals groundbreaking science that trumps science fiction: how to grow a living dinosaur
Over a decade after Jurassic Park, Jack Horner and his colleagues in molecular biology labs are in the process of building the technology to create a real dinosaur.
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by Alfred Binet, Victor Henri
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2016
La Bibliothèque de pédagogie et de psychologie que nous inaugurons aujourd’hui en publiant ce premier volume sur la Fatigue intellectuelle, est destinée à faire profiter la pédagogie des progrès récents de la psychologie expérimentale.
Ce n’est pas, à proprement parler, une...
Better for All the World
The Secret History of Forced Sterilization and America's Quest for Racial Purity
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A timely and gripping history of the controversial eugenics movement in America–and the scientists, social reformers and progressives who supported it.In Better for All the World, Harry Bruinius charts the little known history of eugenics in America–a movement that began in the early twentieth...
by James D. Watson, Ph.D., Alexander Gann
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Published to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Nobel Prize for Watson and Crick’s discovery of the structure of DNA, an annotated and illustrated edition of this classic book gives new insights into the personal relationships between James Watson, Frances Crick, Maurice Wilkins, and Rosalind Franklin, and the making of a scientific revolution.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
This book should serve as a resource for professionals in all fields regarding diagnosis, management, and counseling of patients with FXTAS, FXPOI and their families, as well as presenting the molecular basis for disease that may lead to the identification of new markers to predict disease risk and...
by James D. Watson
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2002
In the years following his and Francis Crick’s towering discovery of DNA, James Watson was obsessed with finding two things: RNA and a wife. Genes, Girls, and Gamow is the marvelous chronicle of those pursuits. Watson effortlessly glides between his heartbreaking and sometimes hilarious debacles...
Life at the Speed of Light
From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
“Venter instills awe for biology as it is, and as it might become in our hands.” —Publishers Weekly
On May 20, 2010, headlines around the world announced one of the most extraordinary accomplishments in modern science: the creation of the world’s first synthetic lifeform. In Life at...
Stem Cell Now
A Brief Introduction to the Coming of Medical Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2006
THE STEM CELL IS SET TO DOMINATE POPULAR AWARENESS OF SCIENCE LIKE THE ATOM BOMB DID A GENERATION AGO. No area of science holds such immediate promise for treating disease and improving human lives as stem cell research. But no area of science also causes such fundamental ethical concern and such ferocious political conflict.
by Editors of Scientific American
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
Drawn from the pages of Scientific American and collected here for the first time, this work contains updated and condensed information, made accessible to a general popular science audience, on the subject of understanding the genome.
The Stem Cell Hope
How Stem Cell Medicine Can Change Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
**A landmark book by the senior science writer at Time magazine introduces us to a medical breakthrough that can save our lives. **
Few people know much about stem cell research beyond the ethical questions raised by using embryos. But in the last decade, stem cell research has made huge...
Chasing Captain America
How Advances in Science, Engineering, and Biotechnology Will Produce a Superhuman
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Could we create a real-life superhero by changing human biology itself?
The form and function of the human body, once entirely delimited by nature, are now fluid concepts thanks to recent advances in biomedical science and engineering. Professor, author, and comic book enthusiast E. Paul Zehr...
The Personalized Medicine Revolution
How Diagnosing and Treating Disease Are About to Change Forever
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
An incisive look at how personalized medicine is revolutionizing health care for everyone.
In this persuasive and compelling book, Pieter Cullis argues that personalized medicine, also known as precision medicine, is the biggest revolution of our time. By replacing the current one-size-fits-all...
Life Script
How the Human Genome Discoveries Will Transform Medicine and Enhance Your Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2002
With the decoding of the human genome, researchers can now read the script in which evolution has written the program for the design and operation of the human body. A new generation of medical treatments is at hand. Researchers are developing therapies so powerful that there is now no evident obstacle...