Genetics category: 1528 books
Decoding the Antibody Repertoire
High Throughput Sequencing of Multiple Transcripts from Single B Cells
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
This thesis outlines the development of the very first technology for high-throughput analysis of paired heavy and light-chain antibody sequences, opening an entirely new window for antibody discovery and the investigation of adaptive immune responses to vaccines and diseases.
Previous methods...
by Michel Neidhart
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
DNA Methylation and Complex Human Disease reviews the possibilities of methyl-group-based epigenetic biomarkers of major diseases, tailored epigenetic therapies, and the future uses of high-throughput methylome technologies.
This volume includes many pertinent advances in disease-bearing research,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Epigenetic Biomarkers and Diagnostics comprises 31 chapters contributed by leading active researchers in basic and clinical epigenetics. The book begins with the basis of epigenetic mechanisms and descriptions of epigenetic biomarkers that can be used in clinical diagnostics and prognostics. It goes...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 1999
This volume addresses oxidant-reduction or redox and antioxidant sensitive molecular mechanisms and how they are implicated in different disease processes. Possible strategies to pharmacologically and/or nutritionally manipulate such redox-sensitive molecular responses are emphasized.
Reactive...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2015
Epigenetic Technological Applications is a compilation of state-of-the-art technologies involved in epigenetic research. Epigenetics is an exciting new field of biology research, and many technologies are invented and developed specifically for epigenetics study. With chapters covering the latest...
Between the Lines of Genetic Code
Genetic Interactions in Understanding Disease and Complex Phenotypes
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
Between the Lines of Genetic Code lays out methodologies and tools for the measurement and evaluation of gene-gene and gene-environment studies and gives perspective on the future of this discipline. The book begins by defining terms for interaction studies, describing methodologies, and critically...
Genomic and Precision Medicine
Primary Care
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Genomic and Precision Medicine: Primary Care, Third Edition is an invaluable resource on the state-of-the-art tools, technologies and policy issues that are required to fully realize personalized health care in the area of primary care.
One of the major areas where genomic and personalized...
Genes, Giants, Monsters, and Men
The Surviving Elites of the Cosmic War and Their Hidden Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Consider the possibility that the history of the human race is not as simple as what has been taught in classroom textbooks. Consider the possibility that the evolutionary scientific explanation for mankind has ignored critical facts that are buried deep within the fossils and mankind's DNA. Consider...
Blood Matters
From BRCA1 to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
A National Book Award winner’s personal journey through the ethical dilemmas and unsettling choices raised by the new frontier of DNA testing.
Several years after Masha Gessen’s mother died of breast cancer, she discovered she too had the BRCA1 gene mutation, which predisposes women to...
by IntroBooks
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2017
IntroBooks delivers up to the minute information covering everything on a topic in only one hour of reading. Our books are written to give essential information in a straight-to-the-point, easy to read format. We have cut out technical jargon, waffle, and unnecessary filler to ensure you get the essential information you need to achieve your goals with confidence.
Phylogenomics
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
This unique textbook provides a clear and concise overview of the key principles of the complex field of phylogenomics, with a particular focus on sequencing technologies that are crucial to studying and understanding interrelations in evolutionary genomics. It includes chapters dedicated to the analysis...
Extended Heredity
A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
How genes are not the only basis of heredity—and what this means for evolution, human life, and disease
For much of the twentieth century it was assumed that genes alone mediate the transmission of biological information across generations and provide the raw material for natural selection....
Living with HHT
Understanding and Managing Your Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) is a rare genetic disorder that causes blood vessel abnormalities in the nose, skin, gastrointestinal tract, lungs, brain, and liver. Nosebleeds are the most common symptom of HHT, but abnormal vessels in other organs, if they are not diagnosed and treated,...
by Alistair Moffat
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
History has always mattered to Scots, and rarely more so than now at the outset of a new century, with a new census appearing in 2011 and after more than ten years of a new parliament. An almost limitless archive of our history lies hidden inside our bodies and we carry the ancient story of Scotland...