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| 471 - 480 of 1000 Most Recent Genomics Books, Journals and Periodicals |
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 | Biotechnology Annual Review, Volume 7 (Biotechnology Annual Review)
by M.R. El-Gewely
Publisher: Elsevier
Publication Date: Friday, June 01, 2001
Description: Biotechnology is in many respects shaping our life and affecting our means of production and the creation of jobs. Progress in the applications of biotechnology depends on a wide base of basic as well as applied sciences. The output of biotechnology has already proved itself in many diverse...more
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 | Chance in the House of Fate: A Natural History of Heredity
by Jennifer Ackerman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Publication Date: Friday, June 01, 2001
Description: In the last few years, a startling new message has emerged about our biology. Scientists probing the deep workings of organisms have discovered that all living things, from yeasts to worms to humans, are guided by similar genes and proteins, which have passed down nearly intact for hundreds of millions...more
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 | Improving Nature?
by Michael J. Reiss, Roger Straughan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: Monday, May 21, 2001
Description: Little more than a decade ago the term "genetic engineering" was hardly known outside research laboratories. Today it regularly makes headlines. Those in favor of genetic engineering--and those against it--tell us that it has the potential to change our lives perhaps more than any other scientific or technological advance. But...more
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 | The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics
by Robin Marantz Henig
Publisher: Mariner Books
Publication Date: Saturday, May 12, 2001
Description: The Moravian monk and naturalist Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) labored quietly over the years in his abbey's garden, becoming known locally as a reliable meteorologist with an unusually green thumb. He was much more than that, of course, but his transforming experiments in what a later acolyte would call "genetics" were...more
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 | The Genetic Gods: Evolution and Belief in Human Affairs
by John C. Avise
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication Date: Wednesday, May 02, 2001
Description: They mastermind our lives, shaping our features, our health, and our behavior, even in the sacrosanct realms of love and sex, religion, aging, and death. Yet we are the ones who house, perpetuate, and give the promise of immortality to these biological agents, our genetic...more
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 | The Misunderstood Gene
by Michel Morange
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication Date: Tuesday, May 01, 2001
Description: With all the hype over the Human Genome Project, gene therapies, and their ilk, it would seem that all we need to know about ourselves is packed into the coils of our DNA. Not so, says biologist Michel Morange of the École Normale Supérieure. In fact, he believes that the...more
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 | Principles of Nuclear Structure and Function
by Peter R. Cook
Publisher: Wiley-Liss
Publication Date: Tuesday, April 24, 2001
Description: The nucleus guides the life processes of the cell by directing cellular reproduction, differentiation during development, and metabolism. The study of the structure and function of the nucleus along with its genetic material serves as the foundation for the science of genetics. Principles of Nuclear Structure and Function provides a...more
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 | Genetics and the Search for Modern Human Origins
by John H. Relethford
Publisher: Wiley-Liss
Publication Date: Friday, April 20, 2001
Description: A major debate in anthropology concerns the relationship between anatomically modern humans and earlier "archaic" humans including the Neandertals. What was the origin of modern humans? Did we arise as a new species in Africa 200,000 years ago and then replace archaic human populations outside of Africa, or are our...more
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 | The Book of Life: A Personal and Ethical Guide to Race, Normality and the Human Gene Study
by Barbara Katz Rothman
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: Thursday, April 19, 2001
Description: The new genetics and race, illness, and procreation. Scientists are racing to unravel the code of life in our DNA sequences. But once we know the code, will we know what life means? Will we know what to do with the powerful-healing, destructive, and marketable-information we...more
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 | Genetically Modified Organisms in Agriculture: Economics and Politics
by Gerald C. Nelson
Publisher: Academic Press
Publication Date: Monday, April 16, 2001
Description: Genetically modified crops have become a topic of great interest among scientists, regulators, consumers, farmers, and politicians. Despite their potential benefits, public hostility toward these crops is causing dramatic changes to import/export policies, food safety regulations, and agricultural practices around the world. Genetically Modified Organisms in Agriculture provides a...more
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Last Updated: 29 November 2007.
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