A heady overview of the emerging discipline of synthetic biology and the wonders it can produce, from new drugs and vaccines to biofuels and resurrected woolly mammoths. In this authoritative, sometimes awe-inspiring book, geneticist Church and veteran science writer Regis team up to explore how scientists are now altering the nature of living organisms by modifying their genomes, or genetic makeup.

"A groundbreaking book about how technological advances in genomics and the extraction of ancient DNA have profoundly changed our understanding of human prehistory while resolving many long-standing controversies. Massive technological innovations now allow scientists to extract and analyze ancient DNA as never before, and it has become clear--in part from David Reich's own contributions to the field--that genomics is as important a means of understanding...

"A provocative and timely case for how the science of genetics can help create a more just and equal society. In recent years, scientists like Kathryn Paige Harden have shown that DNA makes us different, in our personalities and in our health-and in ways that matter for educational and economic success in our current society. In The Genetic Lottery, Harden introduces readers to the latest genetic science, dismantling dangerous ideas about racial superiority...

"James D. Watson, the Nobel laureate whose pioneering work helped unlock the mystery of DNA's structure, charts the greatest scientific journey of our time, from the discovery of the double helix to today's controversies to what the future may hold. Updated to include new findings in gene editing, epigenetics, agricultural chemistry, as well as two entirely new chapters on personal genomics and cancer research. This is the most comprehensive and authoritative...

"Science fiction meets reality in this thrilling Jurassic Park-like story of the quest to achieve the genetic resurrection of an extinct species--the Woolly Mammoth. ... From the frozen tundra of Siberia to the cutting-edge genetics labs of Harvard University, a group of young scientists--under the guidance of Dr. George Church, the most brilliant geneticist of our time--is working to make the impossible happen. Their task? To bring the Woolly Mammoth,...

"The gripping true story of a Supreme Court civil rights battle to prevent biotech companies from owning the very thing that makes us who we are--our DNA"--

La edición genética ha irrumpido con fuerza tanto en los laboratorios como en la sociedad. En particular desde que aparecieron las herramientas CRISPR, descubiertas en bacterias por un microbiólogo español, Francis Mojica, de la Universidad de Alicante, hace más de 25 años. Con ellas se han propuesto multitud de aplicaciones en biología, en salud y en biotecnología, algunas de las cuales plantean dilemas éticos, como su uso en embriones humanos....

Hasta hace muy poco tiempo la genética cuantitativa y el mejoramiento animal se consideraban como un pilar de la zootecnia con nula o muy poca aplicación a nivel de explotaciones en Colombia. Afortunadamente, en la actualidad esto ha cambiado y hoy se reconoce como una herramienta de transformación, junto con la nutrición y la reproducción para el mejoramiento en los rendimientos de las características de importancia económica objeto de la...

Las respuestas de la ciencia a las cuestiones clave de la Genética: los organismos transgénicos, clones y mutaciones, la epigenética, la bioética, el papel de los genes en nuestras emociones, la estructura del ADN, la ingeniería genética y la medicina predictiva. ¿Cómo se construye un organismo desde el ADN?, ¿Se pueden crear mutantes?, ¿Cómo funciona el virus del SIDA?, ¿Qué es una dieta genética?, ¿Cómo se crea una planta transgénica?,...

Freddy Bugge Christiansen is professor of population biology at the University of Aarhus in Denmark. He is the author of Population Genetics of Multiple Loci and coauthor of Theories of Populations in Biological Communities and Population Genetics. This textbook provides an authoritative introduction to both classical and coalescent approaches to population genetics. Written for graduate students and advanced undergraduates by one of the world's...