Genetics category: 1528 books
by H. William Detrich, III
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
This volume on genetics, genomics, and informatics, will cover new technologies in forward and reverse genetics, transgenesis, the zebrafish genome and mapping technologies, informatics and comparative genomics, and Infrastructure. This volume of Methods in Cell Biology will prove valuable both to...
Systems Genetics
Linking Genotypes and Phenotypes
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Whereas genetic studies have traditionally focused on explaining heritance of single traits and their phenotypes, recent technological advances have made it possible to comprehensively dissect the genetic architecture of complex traits and quantify how genes interact to shape phenotypes. This exciting...
Ordinary Genomes
Science, Citizenship, and Genetic Identities
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
Ordinary Genomes is an ethnography of genomics, a global scientific enterprise, as it is understood and practiced in the Netherlands. Karen-Sue Taussig’s analysis of the Dutch case illustrates how scientific knowledge and culture are entwined: Genetics may transform society, but society also transforms...
Am I My Genes?
Confronting Fate and Family Secrets in the Age of Genetic Testing
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
In the fifty years since DNA was discovered, we have seen extraordinary advances. For example, genetic testing has rapidly improved the diagnosis and treatment of diseases such as Huntington's, cystic fibrosis, breast cancer, and Alzheimer's. But with this new knowledge comes difficult decisions for...
by Stuart Brody
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
This latest volume in Advances in Genetics covers the genetics of Circadian rhythms. With an international group of authors this volume is the latest offering in this widely praised series.
It's in Your DNA
From Discovery to Structure, Function and Role in Evolution, Cancer and Aging
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
It's in Your DNA: From Discovery to Structure, Function and Role in Evolution, Cancer and Aging describes, in a clear, approachable manner, the progression of the experiments that eventually led to our current understanding of DNA. This fascinating work tells the whole story from the discovery of...
Gender and Genetics
Sociology of the Prenatal
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Prenatal screening for genetic disorders is becoming an increasingly widespread phenomenon across the globe. While studies have highlighted the importance of women’s experiences of such screening, little is known about men’s roles and direct involvement in this process. With a focus on the experiences...
by Ralph G Wilkins
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Accounts are appearing on some facet of genetics in nearly every issue of scientific magazines and often in the daily newspapers. This book sets out to cover the fundamentals of the subject without the details in a much larger genetics text in order to provide background reading for those not studying...
Heredity Explored
Between Public Domain and Experimental Science, 1850–1930
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Investigations of how the understanding of heredity developed in scientific, medical, agro-industrial, and political contexts of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
This book examines the wide range of scientific and social arenas in which the concept of inheritance gained relevance...
Genetics, Mass Media and Identity
A Case Study of the Genetic Research on the Lemba
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
This is the first book to explore the effect of genetic research on the Lemba Judaising community of Southern Africa and the phenomenon of Israelite identity.
The science of genetics as relayed by the media is perceived by laymen as being irreproachably objective 'hard science': its disinterested...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2003
In recent years, significant gains have been made in the cloning and identification of numerous genes that produce neurobehavioral disorders, as well as in the ability of neuropsychological tests to accurately assess and evaluate cognitive deficits and behavioral dysfunction. In Genetics and Genomics...
Epigenetics in the post genomic era: Can behaviour change our genes?
Was Lamarck just a little bit right?
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Biology - Genetics / Gene Technology, grade: B2, University of Glasgow (Biology - Genetics), course: Genetics BA - Level 3, language: English, abstract: Traditionally, genomic research was focused on the investigation of DNA sequence which gives rise to the...
by Jeffrey C. Hall, Theodore Friedmann, Veronica van Heyningen
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
The field of genetics is rapidly evolving and new medical breakthroughs are occurring as a result of advances in knowledge gained from genetics research. This series continually publishes important reviews of the broadest interest to geneticists and their colleagues in affiliated disciplines.
Elsevier's Integrated Review Genetics E-Book
with STUDENT CONSULT Online Access
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Effectively merge basic science and clinical skills with Elsevier's Integrated Review Genetics, by Linda R. Adkison, PhD. This concise, high-yield title in the popular Integrated Review Series focuses on the core knowledge in genetics while linking that information to related concepts from other basic...