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A Nobel Prize-winning biologist tells the riveting story of his race to discover the inner workings of biology's most important molecule
Everyone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the ribosome--an enormous molecular machine made up of a million atoms--that makes DNA come to life, turning our genetic code into proteins and therefore into us. Gene Machine is an insider account of the race for the structure...
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À l'avenir, les personnes porteuses de la trisomie 21 pourraient suivre une thérapie génétique et avoir accès à une pharmacothérapie cognitive plus performante.
Une perspective curative se dessine pour la trisomie 21, ou « syndrome de Down », cette condition génétique qui affecte plusieurs millions de personnes sur la planète. Les thérapies génétiques en voie d'actualisation sont de nature à modifier en profondeur le développement...
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WARNING: Everything you know about the peopling of the Americas is wrong. People in the Americas before the Last Ice Age Glaciation Concluded: An Emerging Paradigm on Western Hemisphere Population Origin covers the turn of the century emerging science on the origin of human population in the western hemisphere. It is a booklet that is designed to provide a reference bridge until the new information can be included in textbook presentations. With the...
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Debates on nature versus nurture rage on and the question of identity looms large for almost everybody at some point in their lives. Thanks to continuing developments in genetics research, some of those questions can be put to bed-or at least, better understood. Moreover, studies of the genome can yield a number of possibilities in improving health and curing disease. This book explores all aspects of this rapidly evolving field by introducing the...
145) Genome
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Genome tells the story of the most ambitious scientific adventure of our time. By gradually isolating and identifying all the genes in the human body-the blueprint for life-scientists are closing in on the ability to effectively treat and prevent nearly every disease that strikes man, from muscular dystrophy, diabetes, and cancer to heart ailments, alcoholism, and even mental illness. Such discoveries will change the course of human life. At the...
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The DNA sequence that comprises the human genome--the genetic blueprint found in each of our cells--is undoubtedly the greatest code ever to be broken. Completed at the dawn of a new millennium, the feat electrified both the scientific community and the general public with its tantalizing promise of new and better treatments for countless diseases, including Alzheimer's, cancer, diabetes, and Parkinson's. Yet what is arguably the most important discovery...
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The subject of age has ever been one which has attracted human thought. It leads us so near to the great mysteries that all thinkers have contemplated it, and many are the writers who from the literary point of view have presented us, sometimes with profound thought, often with beautiful images connected with the change from youth to old age. We need but to think of two books familiar more or less to us all, that ancient classic, Cicero's De Senectute,...
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Travel backward through time from today's scattered billions to the handful of early humans who lived in Africa 60,000 years ago and are ancestors to us all.
In Deep Ancestry, scientist and National Geographic explorer Spencer Wells shows how tiny genetic changes add up over time into a fascinating story. Using scores of real-life examples, helpful analogies, and detailed diagrams and illustrations, he explains exactly how each and every individual's...
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Les organismes génétiquement modifiés, toute une aventure scientifique et politique expliquée par Yasmine Lrhziel.
Au lendemain de la publication de l'étude choc de Gilles-Éric Séralini, professeur de biologie moléculaire à l'université de Caen, par la revue américaine Food and Chemical Toxicology, révélant la toxicité du maïs OGM NK603 de Monsanto, le débat sur le dossier sensible des OGM est une fois encore relancé. D'un cté,...
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Les théories évolutionnistes peuvent-elles expliquer certaines pathologies de la personnalité ?
L'homme a besoin d'explications. Y compris sur ses propres comportements. Dans les pays occidentaux, les troubles de la personnalité touchent environ une personne sur dix. Pourquoi ces troubles, qui sont pour moitié sous influence génétique, ont-ils persisté dans le temps et n'ont pas été éliminés au cours de l'évolution humaine ? Y aurait-il...
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Passionate, provocative, and highly illuminating, Hacking Darwin is the must read book about the future of our species for fans of Homo Deus and The Gene.
After 3.8 billion years humankind is about to start evolving by new rules...
From leading geopolitical expert and technology futurist Jamie Metzl comes a groundbreaking exploration of the many ways genetic-engineering is shaking the core foundations of our lives - sex, war, love, and death.
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Carolyn's parents did not, after all, make genomics history by synthesizing her genome in a lab. She has known she is the "Human Hoax" ever since a high school genetics exercise revealed she has trisomy X-a chromosomal abnormality-yet no synthetically constructed genome would have such clear traces of natural conception. Many years later, as molecular biologist, she hopes her colleagues never learn of her embarrassing origins. But when someone ransacks...
153) Designing Humans: How Gene Editing Can Bring Back Old Evils and Alter the Course of Human Evolution
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This short read analyses gene editing as a revolutionary new technology that could enable the design of new 'ideal' humans. What traits would be desirable? This kind of question links back to eugenic ideas that were popular in Europe in the early 1920s. Using visual communication and design references, 'Designing Humans' critiques past eugenic propaganda and speculates on its possible come back once genome editing enters the biotech market. Will the...
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"Winner of the Pfizer Award, History of Science Society" "Winner of the Cheiron Book Prize, Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral & Social Sciences" "One of Science News' Favorite Science Books of 2018" Theodore M. Porter is Distinguished Professor of History and holds the Peter Reill Chair at the University of California, Los Angeles. His books include Karl Pearson: The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age, Trust in Numbers:...
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Could we create a real-life superhero by changing human biology itself? The form and function of the human body, once entirely delimited by nature, are now fluid concepts thanks to recent advances in biomedical science and engineering. Professor, author, and comic book enthusiast E. Paul Zehr uses Marvels Captain America an ordinary man turned into an extraordinary hero, thanks to a military science experiment as an entry-point to this brave new...
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The great anthropologist's classic treatise on race and culture. Discusses biological and cultural inheritance, the fallacy of racial, cultural or ethnic superiority, the scientific basis for human individuality, and much more. One of the most influential books of the century, now in a value-priced edition. Introduction by Ruth Bunzel.
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The contributors to The Story Within share powerful experiences of living with genetic disorders. Their stories illustrate the complexities involved in making decisions about genetic diseases: whether to be tested, who to tell, whether to have children, and whether and how to treat children medically, if treatment is available. More broadly, they consider how genetic information shapes the ways we see ourselves, the world, and our actions within it.
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158) Your DNA, Your Life
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A guide for anyone looking to utilize the key information their DNA inherently provides to unlock the mechanisms for health and wellness.
No longer are we bound by the deterministic fate of our genetics. Science now tells us that our health destiny is in our hands. This guide lays the foundation for optimizing living based on your DNA and lifestyle habits. Unlock the key to your wellness destiny by using simple, practical information to up and down...
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Paul Rabinow is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. His many books include French DNA, Making PCR, and Anthropos Today (Princeton). Talia Dan-Cohen received a B.A. in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley.
A Machine to Make a Future represents a remarkably original look at the present and possible future of biotechnology research in the wake of the mapping of the human genome. The central tenet...
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Angela E. Douglas is the Daljit S. and Elaine Sarkaria Professor of Insect Physiology and Toxicology at Cornell University. Her books include The Symbiotic Habit (Princeton) and Symbiotic Interactions.
An essential introduction to microbiome science, a new cutting-edge discipline that is transforming the life sciences
This book provides an accessible and authoritative guide to the fundamental principles of microbiome science, an exciting and fast-emerging...
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