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The Rough Guide to Genes and Cloning 1 (Rough Guide Reference)

Rough Guides — Mon, 21 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT

What exactly is a gene? How does cloning actually work? Are designer babies a bad idea? Could we ever clone a human? The Rough Guide To Genes & Cloning answers all these questions and more. From the inside story of cells and their structure and the sleuths who cracked the ...

Your Right to Know: Genetic Engineering and the Secret Changes in Your Food

Andrew Kimbrell — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT

More than half of America's processed grocery products, from cornflakes to diet drinks, contain genetically altered ingredients. They are unlabeled and untested, and we're eating it. YOUR RIGHT TO KNOW is a complete reference guide outlining how genetically modified foods get onto the family dining table and what consumers can ...

Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods

Jeffrey M. Smith — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Eating genetically modified food is gambling with every bite.

The biotech industry's claim that genetically modified (GM) foods are safe is shattered in this groundbreaking book. Nearly forty health risks of the foods that Americans eat every day are presented in easy-to-read two-page spreads. The left page is ...

Introduction to Computational Genomics: A Case Studies Approach

Nello Cristianini, Matthew W. Hahn — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Where did SARS come from? Have we inherited genes from Neanderthals? How do plants use their internal clock? The genomic revolution in biology enables us to answer such questions. But the revolution would have been impossible without the support of powerful computational and statistical methods that enable us to exploit ...

Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland

Bryan Sykes — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT

lt;B>WASPs finally get their due in this stimulating history by one of the world's leading geneticists.

Saxons, Vikings, and Celts is the most illuminating book yet to be written about the genetic history of Britain and Ireland. Through a systematic, ten-year DNA survey of more than 10,000 volunteers, Bryan Sykes has ...

Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project

Spencer Wells — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Science tells us we're all related—one vast family sharing a common ancestor who lived in Africa 60,000 years ago. But countless questions remain about our great journey from the birthplace of Homo sapiens to the ends of the Earth. How did we end up where we are? When did we ...

Evolutionary Bioinformatics

Donald R. Forsdyke — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Books on bioinformatics which began appearing in the mid 80s primarily served gene-hunters, and biologists who wished to construct family trees showing tidy lines of descent. Given the great pharmaceutical industry interest in genes, this trend has continued in most subsequent texts. These deal extensively with the exciting topic of ...

The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank

David Plotz — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Robert Graham, the oddball inventor and millionaire at the heart of David Plotz's book, The Genius Factory, is the archetype for the cliché, "more money than brains." It was Graham who reckoned America was going to hell in a hand basket and the best way to halt the trend was ...

The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution

Sean B. Carroll — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

lt;B>DNA evidence not only solves crimes—in Sean Carroll's hands it will now end the Evolution Wars.

DNA is the genetic material that defines us as individuals. Over the last two decades, it has emerged as a powerful tool for solving crimes and determining guilt & innocence. But, very recently, an important ...

The Evolution of Death: Why We Are Living Longer (Suny Series in Philosophy and Biology)

Stanley Shostak — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

lt;i>Argues that death is not unchanging, but rather has evolved over ...