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| 151 - 160 of 1000 Most Recent Genomics Books, Journals and Periodicals |
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 | Robustness and Evolvability in Living Systems: (Princeton Studies in Complexity)
by Andreas Wagner
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Date: Tuesday, July 05, 2005
Description: All living things are remarkably complex, yet their DNA is unstable, undergoing countless random mutations over generations. Despite this instability, most animals do not grow two heads or die, plants continue to thrive, and bacteria continue to divide. Robustness and Evolvability in Living Systems tackles this perplexing paradox. The book...more
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 | The Genome War : How Craig Venter Tried to Capture the Code of Life and Save the World
by James Shreeve
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Publication Date: Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Description: The long-awaited story of the science, the business, the politics, the intrigue behind the scenes of the most ferocious competition in the history of modern science—the race to map the human genome.
On May 10, 1998, biologist Craig Venter, director of the Institute for Genomic Research, announced that he was forming...more
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 | Why We Do It: Rethinking Sex and the Selfish Gene
by Niles Eldredge
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication Date: Monday, June 20, 2005
Description: A major refutation of the almighty status of genes in evolution and human behavior.
Why do people have sex? Is it solely for the purpose of passing on genetic information, or are there other reasons? "A candid, no-punches-pulled interpreter of the core ideas of evolutionary biology" (Science News), author Niles Eldredge...more
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 | Biochemistry Illustrated: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in the Post-Genomic Era
by Peter N. Campbell, Anthony D. Smith, Timothy J. Peters
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
Publication Date: Monday, June 13, 2005
Description: This title gives students of medicine, other health professions and science a coherent account of biochemistry and molecular biology. Over 500 two-colour line illustrations help the reader visualise biochemistry and understand difficult concepts. Gene structure and function are introduced early in the book as they are so central to the...more
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 | The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank
by David Plotz
Publisher: Random House
Publication Date: Tuesday, June 07, 2005
Description: It was the most radical human-breeding experiment in American history, and no one knew how it turned out. The Repository for Germinal Choice–nicknamed the Nobel Prize sperm bank–opened to notorious fanfare in 1980, and for two decades, women flocked to it from all over the country to choose a...more
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 | An Introduction to Human Molecular Genetics: Mechanisms of Inherited Diseases
by Jack J. Pasternak
Publisher: Wiley-Liss
Publication Date: Friday, June 03, 2005
Description: An Introduction to Human Molecular Genetics
Second Edition
Jack J. Pasternak
The Second Edition of this internationally acclaimed text expands its coverage of the molecular genetics of inherited human diseases with the latest research findings and discoveries. Using a unique, systems-based...more
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 | Genetic Variation & Environmental Factors in Biological & Arterial Ageing (Acta Biomedica Lovaniensia)
by Tim Nawrot
Publisher: Leuven Univ Pr
Publication Date: Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Description: This is a Ph.D. dissertation. Ageing, the decline in survival and bodily functions, caused by damage to macromolecules and tissues is intrinsically linked to life. Although universal and unavoidable, ageing does not occur in a uniform way. In the general population, it is actually a continuously distributed phenotype, in which...more
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 | The Xeno Chronicles: Two Years on the Frontier of Medicine Inside Harvard's Transplant Research Lab
by G. Wayne Miller
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication Date: Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Description: For the 87,000 people on the waiting list for transplants in the United States alone, stem cell research leading to cloned human organs is a distant hope. Far more likely in the short run, at least according to its most passionate advocates, is xenotransplantation, or transplantation across species. Putting animal...more
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 | Deniz Sar's Trilogy of Cultural Genetics (Deniz Sar's Trilogy of Cultural Genetics)
by F. Deniz Sar
Publisher: Cultural Genetics Press
Publication Date: Thursday, May 19, 2005
Description: This is a 3 Volume Trilogy of Deniz Sar's historic General Theories seperately published before: Volume One - Introduction to the General Theory of Cultural Genetics (Cultural Genetics Press, 2003) Volume Two - Introduction to the General Theory of Corporate Genetics (Cultural Genetics...more
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 | Introduction to Bioinformatics
by Arthur M. Lesk
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication Date: Thursday, May 12, 2005
Description: Written by a pioneer of the use of bioinformatics in research, the second edition of Introduction to Bioinformatics introduces the student to the power of bioinformatics as a set of scientific tools. Retaining and enhancing the rich pedagogy and lucid presentation of the first edition, this
new edition explains how to...more
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