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| 251 - 260 of 1000 Most Recent Genomics Books, Journals and Periodicals |
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 | Enough : Staying Human in an Engineered Age
by Bill McKibben
Publisher: Owl Books
Publication Date: Sunday, February 01, 2004
Description: Passionate, succinct, chilling, closely argued, sometimes hilarious, touchingly well-intentioned, and essential.” —Margaret Atwood, The New York Review of Books Nearly fifteen years ago, in The End of Nature, Bill McKibben demonstrated that humanity had begun to irrevocably alter and endanger our environment on a global scale. Now he turns his... more |
 | Virus of the Mind:: The New Science of the Meme
by Richard Brodie
Publisher: Integral Press
Publication Date: Saturday, January 31, 2004
Description: If you've ever wondered how and why people become robotically enslaved by advertising, religion, sexual fantasy, and cults, wonder no more. It's all because of "mind viruses," or "memes," and those who understand how to plant them into other's minds. This is the first truly accessible book about memes...more
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 | Genetics and Ethics in Global Perspective (International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine)
by Dorothy C. Wertz, John C. Fletcher
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: Saturday, January 31, 2004
Description: Dorothy Wertz and John Fletcher pioneered the first international study of ethical and social issues in genetics in 18 nations. This book reports and discusses their second and more representative study in 36 nations. The survey focused on actual situations that occur in the practice of medical genetics, presented as...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: Knopf
Publication Date: Tuesday, January 27, 2004
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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 | Retinal Dystrophies: Functional Genomics to Gene Therapy (CIBA Foundation Symposia Series)
by Novartis Foundation
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Publication Date: Monday, January 26, 2004
Description: Retinal dystrophies are the major causes of incurable blindness in the Western world. Our insight into their aetiology has improved remarkably over the past decade and a number of key genes have been identified. Together with a more detailed understanding of disease processes, this knowledge is stimulating new approaches to therapeutic...more
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 | Genetics and the Logic of Evolution
by Kenneth M. Weiss, Anne V. Buchanan
Publisher: Wiley-Liss
Publication Date: Friday, January 23, 2004
Description: In this book the authors draw on what is known, largely from recent research, about the nature of genes and cells, the genetics of development and animal and plant body plans, intra- and interorganismal communication, sensation and perception, to propose that a few basic generalizations, along with the modified application...more
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 | Embryo Research in Pluralistic Europe (Wissenschaftsethik und Technikfolgenbeurteilung)
by D. Solter, D. Beyleveld, M.B. Friele, J. Holówka, H. Lilie, R. Lovell-Badge, C. Mandla, U. Martin, R. Pardo Avellaneda, F. Wütscher
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: Thursday, January 22, 2004
Description: Recent advances in techniques and understanding in the fields of genetics, embryology and reproductive biology have opened up new ways to treat a wide range of medical problems. They range from new options for infertility treatment and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis to stem-cell-based therapies for debilitating diseases. Since all these approaches...more
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 | Phenotypic Plasticity: Functional and Conceptual Approaches (Life Sciences)
by Samuel M. Scheiner
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication Date: Thursday, January 15, 2004
Description: Phenotypic plasticity is the range and process of variation in body plan and physiology. This book pulls together recent theoretical advances in phenotypic plasticity, as influenced by evolution and development. The editors and the chapter authors are among the leaders of this exciting and
active subfield. The volume begins...more
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 | Computation in Living Cells: Gene Assembly in Ciliates (Natural Computing Series)
by Andrzej Ehrenfeucht, Tero Harju, Ion Petre, David M. Prescott, Grzegorz Rozenberg
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: Monday, January 12, 2004
Description: Natural Computing is concerned with computation that is taking place in Nature. The investigation of computations in living cells is one of the central and fastest growing areas of research in this field. Gene assembly in ciliates (unicellular organisms) is a splendid example of such computations, and it is fascinating...more
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 | Genetics: Analysis and Principles
by Robert J. Brooker, Robert Brooker
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
Publication Date: Friday, January 09, 2004
Description: Genetics: Analysis and Principles is a one-semester, introductory genetics textbook that takes an experimental approach to understanding genetics. By weaving one or two experiments into the narrative of each chapter, students can simultaneously explore the scientific method and understand the genetic principles that have been learned from these ...more
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Last Updated: 29 November 2007.
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