Genetics category: 1528 books

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Mutants

On Genetic Variety and the Human Body

by Armand Marie Leroi
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2005

Visit Armand Marie Leroi on the web: http://armandleroi.com/index.html Stepping effortlessly from myth to cutting-edge science, Mutants gives a brilliant narrative account of our genetic code and the captivating people whose bodies have revealed it—a French convent girl who found herself...
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by Franz Boas
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012

The great anthropologist's classic treatise on race and culture. Discusses biological and cultural inheritance, the fallacy of racial, cultural or ethnic superiority, the scientific basis for human individuality, and much more. One of the most influential books of the century, now in a value-priced edition. Introduction by Ruth Bunzel.
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How Science Works: Evolution

A Student Primer

by R. John Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2010

Evolution is just a theory, isn’t it? What is a scientific theory anyway? Don’t scientists prove things? What is the difference between a fact, a hypothesis and a theory in science? How does scientific thinking differ from religious thinking? Why are most leading scientists atheists? Are science...
Cover of The Medical Series: Autoimmune Diseases and their Effects
by Alana Monet-Telfer
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013

Having Trouble on Medical Biology? Need to learn more about diseases and how they effect humans? This eBook looks into detail about the diseases that are caused by the humans own immune system, how they have a negative impact on humans; and what treatments are out there to help cure these conditions....
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Enhancing Evolution

The Ethical Case for Making Better People

by John Harris
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010

In Enhancing Evolution, leading bioethicist John Harris dismantles objections to genetic engineering, stem-cell research, designer babies, and cloning and makes an ethical case for biotechnology that is both forthright and rigorous. Human enhancement, Harris argues, is a good thing--good morally,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010

The literature on recoding is scattered, so this superb book ?lls a need by prov- ing up-to-date, comprehensive, authoritative reviews of the many kinds of recoding phenomena. Between 1961 and 1966 my colleagues and I deciphered the genetic code in Escherichia coli and showed that the genetic code...
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PEAK

The Neuroscientific Way To Self-Improvement

by Titus Hauer
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017

Do you lack control over your emotions? Are you prone to emotional outbursts? Do you feel angry, unhappy, depressed and don’t know why? Then you found the right book because in PEAK you’re going to learn how to master your emotions and get a better understanding of yourself. What you will learn...
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GM Food on Trial

Testing European Democracy

by Les Levidow, Susan Carr
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009

Europe was told that it had no choice but to accept agbiotech, yet this imperative was turned into a test of democratic accountability for societal choices. Since the late 1990s, European public controversy has kept the agri-biotech industry and its promoters on the defensive. As some opponents and...
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by Unknown
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014

This is the first 60,000 'letters' of chromosome one of the draft public domain human genome, formatted in arbitrary 60 column lines. This represents a portion of the structure of the double helix DNA molecule. Each letter in the text (A, C, G and T) represents one 'base pair' of nucleotides. They...
Cover of JIMD Reports - Case and Research Reports, 2012/5
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012

JIMD Reports publishes case and short research reports in the area of inherited metabolic disorders. Case reports highlight some unusual or previously unrecorded feature relevant to the disorder, or serve as an important reminder of clinical or biochemical features of a Mendelian disorder.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012

JIMD Reports publishes case and short research reports in the area of inherited metabolic disorders. Case reports highlight some unusual or previously unrecorded feature relevant to the disorder, or serve as an important reminder of clinical or biochemical features of a Mendelian disorder.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013

JIMD Reports publishes case and short research reports in the area of inherited metabolic disorders. Case reports highlight some unusual or previously unrecorded feature relevant to the disorder, or serve as an important reminder of clinical or biochemical features of a Mendelian disorder.
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Synthetic Biology

From iGEM to the Artificial Cell

by Manuel Porcar, Juli Peretó
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014

Synthetic Biology (SB) is a revolutionary discipline with a vast range of practical applications, but is SB research really based on engineering principles? Does it contributing to the artificial synthesis of life or does it utilise approaches sufficiently advanced to fall outside the scope of biotechnology...
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Summary & Analysis of Who We Are and How We Got Here

Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past | A Guide to the Book by David Reich

by ZIP Reads
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018

PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary and analysis of the book and not the original book. If you'd like to purchase the original book, please paste this link in your browser: https://amzn.to/2LmkwH4 In his groundbreaking book, geneticist David Reich presents findings from the "Ancient DNA Revolution,"...
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