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| 161 - 170 of 1000 Most Recent Genomics Books, Journals and Periodicals |
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 | Human Genetic Engineering: A Guide for Activists, Skeptics, and the Very Perplexed
by Pete Shanks
Publisher: Nation Books
Publication Date: Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Description: The debate over human Genetic Engineering (GE) is about to go mainstream. Not as a one-day wonder about cloning or a theological disagreement about embryos, but as a major political issue, driven in part by a grassroots movement of opposition. Human Genetic Engineering is a highly readable and entertaining...more
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 | The Gene and the Genie: Tradition, Medicalization, and Genetic Counseling in a Bedouin Community in Israel
by Aviad E. Raz
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Publication Date: Saturday, April 30, 2005
Description: The subject of this book is a genetic counseling program developed for a Bedouin community in Israel, where congenital hearing loss and thalassemia are passed through the generations at elevated rates. The program, modeled on an innovative and now worldwide premarital counseling protocol developed by and for ultra-orthodox Ashkenazi Jews,...more
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 | George Beadle An Uncommon Farmer: The Emergence of Genetics in the 20th Century
by Paul Berg, Maxine Singer
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Publication Date: Saturday, April 30, 2005
Description: George Beadle was a towering scientific figure whose work from the 1930s to 1960 marked the transition from classical genetics to the molecular era. Among other distinctions, he made the pivotal, Nobel Prize-winning discovery with Edward Tatum that the role of genes is to specify proteins. ...more
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 | Molecular Medicine, Third Edition
by R. Trent
Publisher: Academic Press
Publication Date: Friday, April 29, 2005
Description: Molecular medicine is the application of gene or DNA based knowledge to the modern practice of medicine. This book provides contemporary insights into how the genetic revolution is influencing medical thinking and practice on a broad front including clinical medicine, innovative therapies and forensic medicine.
* Extensively revised just after the...more
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 | Altruism in Private Law: Liability for Nonfeasance and Negotiorum Gestio
by Jeroen Kortmann
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication Date: Thursday, April 28, 2005
Description: This book examines two problems in private law which are posed by the 'Good Samaritan': First, is an intervener under a legal duty to come to the aid of a fellow human being and does he incur any criminal or tortious liability if he fails to do so? Second, having...more
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 | Teach Yourself Genetics (Teach Yourself)
by Morton Jenkins
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Publication Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Description: The subject of genetics has developed enormously since Gregor Johann Mendel’s pioneering work. Teach Yourself Genetics covers everything from the basic science of genetics and inheritance to the ethics of genetic engineering, eugenics, and the Human Genome Project. It looks closely at historical theory, recent developments, and contemporary issues and...more
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 | A Genetic and Cultural Odyssey: The Life and Work of L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza
by Linda Stone, Paul F. Lurquin
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication Date: Friday, April 22, 2005
Description: Regarded by many as one of the most important scientists of our time, L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza has changed the way we understand human genetics and culture. Drawing links between genetic and cultural development, Cavalli-Sforza has made groundbreaking discoveries in the evolution of Homo sapiens, prehistoric migration, and the origins...more
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 | INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS: THE CASE OF GENETIC (Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine)
by Nik Krementsov
Publisher: Other
Publication Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Description: What is international science and how does it function? This book answers these questions through a detailed study of international congresses on genetics held from 1899 to 1939. It presents a portrait of international science as a product of continuous interactions that involved scientists and their patrons within specific political,...more
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 | Information Theory, Evolution, and The Origin of Life
by Hubert P. Yockey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: Monday, April 18, 2005
Description: Information Theory, Evolution and the Origin of Life presents a timely introduction to the use of information theory and coding theory in molecular biology. The genetical information system, because it is linear and digital, resembles the algorithmic language of computers. George Gamow pointed out that the application of Shannon's information...more
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 | iGenetics: A Molecular Approach (2nd Edition)
by Peter J. Russell
Publisher: Benjamin Cummings
Publication Date: Thursday, April 07, 2005
Description: iGenetics: A Molecular Approach reflects the dynamic nature of modern genetics by emphasizing an experimental, inquiry-based approach with a solid treatment of many research experiments. Genetics: An Introduction, DNA: The Genetic Material, DNA Replication, Gene Control of Proteins, Gene Expression: Transcription, Gene...more
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