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Human gene and cell technology is a diverse and rapidly evolving field of research. As genes represent the 'blueprint' of an organism, their analysis and manipulation is a challenge to our understanding of human nature. Stem cell research, genetic testing, gene therapy, therapeutic and reproductive cloning - all these fields of application have been raising fundamental ethical and religious-theological questions: When does human life begin? Should...
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Biologist Nathaniel Jeanson researches DNA and Y-chromosome phylogeny from a creationist standpoint to chart ancestors of modern day Italians, Egyptians and more.
"Recent genetic discoveries are shocking - so shocking that you might be tempted to dismiss them. The focus begins on the historical and genetic searches on seven ancient or prehistorical (i.e., pre-written records) civilizations - those of the ancient Egyptians, the ancient Romans, the...
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MOMENTUM Press
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2018
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It is hard to avoid hearing about genetic testing. It is advertised, discussed, debated, and offered to patients. Some are over the counter, such as paternity testing, testing for risk for diabetes, and other conditions in your family tree. Some are offered by private companies, some by drug companies, some by employers, and many others. These tests may or may not show a distinct answer, so it important for patients to understand these results. Genetic...
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Conversations About Biology consists of the following 5 Ideas Roadshow Conversations which are based on in-depth filmed conversations with world-leading researchers. This collection includes a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. Each book is broken into chapters with an introduction and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter:
I. On Atheists and Bonobos - A conversation with Frans de Waal, Primatologist...
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This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Nick Lane, Professor of Evolutionary Biochemistry at University College London and bestselling author. After an inspiring story of Nick Lane's career path, this wide-ranging conversation covers his bioenergetic view of early, evolutionary history, the origin of life and how all complex life is composed of a very particular cell type that we all share, and more.
This carefully-edited...
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The Decision Trap questions a dogma of our time: the assumption that genetic education empowers citizens and increases their autonomy. It argues that professional instructions about genes, genetic risks, and genetic test options convey a genetic worldview which destroys self-confidence and makes clients dependent on genetic experts and technologies. Part one of the book introduces the reader to the idea of genetic education. It clarifies the notion...
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Medical geneticists began mapping the chromosomal infrastructure piece by piece in the 1970s by focusing on what was known about individual genetic disorders. Five decades later, their infrastructure had become an edifice for prevention, allowing expectant parents to test prenatally for hundreds of disease-specific mutations using powerful genetic testing platforms. In this book, Andrew J. Hogan explores how various diseases were "made genetic" after...
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Harvard University Press
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2017.
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Viruses are the most abundant biological entities on Earth, and arguably the most successful. They are not technically alive, but--as infectious vehicles of genetic information--they have a remarkable capacity to invade, replicate, and evolve within living cells. Synthesizing a large body of recent research, Michael Cordingley goes beyond our familiarity with viral infections to show how viruses spur evolutionary change in their hosts, shape global...
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"This brilliant book is a virtual Voyage of the Beagle! Carl Zimmer shows, with the benefit of a hundred and fifty years of hindsight, how right Darwin was." —Steve Jones, author of Darwin's Ghost
Darwin's The Origin of Species was breathtaking—beautifully written, staunchly defended, defiantly radical. Yet it emerged long before modern genetics, molecular biology, and contemporary findings in paleontology.
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Darwin's The Origin of Species was breathtaking—beautifully written, staunchly defended, defiantly radical. Yet it emerged long before modern genetics, molecular biology, and contemporary findings in paleontology.
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94) Genes de colores
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El color de la piel es un carácter que no debería tener más connotaciones que las puramente descriptivas y fisiológicas, pero con demasiada frecuencia a lo largo de la historia ha sido un desgraciado motivo de discriminación, persecución, ataques o muertes. Resulta inaudito comprobar que apenas unas pocas variaciones genéticas en unos cuantos genes, que tienen un impacto evidente en nuestro aspecto externo, ayuden a determinadas personas al...
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Francis Crick-the quiet genius who led a revolution in biology by discovering, quite literally, the secret of life-will be bracketed with Galileo, Darwin, and Einstein as one of the greatest scientists of all time. In his fascinating biography of the scientific pioneer who uncovered the genetic code-the digital cipher at the heart of heredity that distinguishes living from non-living things-acclaimed bestselling science writer Matt Ridley traces Crick's...
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Au cœœur des sciences biologiques, la génétique se préoccupe de comprendre le mécanisme de la reproduction biologique, à tous les niveaux o elle se manifeste : individu, cellule, molécule. Mais, plus encore peut-être que par cet objectif, cette discipline est caractérisée par la démarche suivie pour l'atteindre, qui passe toujours par l'étude de...
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Twelve
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"In Decoding the World, Po Bronson and Arvind Gupta-two renegade venture capitalists from Silicon Valley-take everyday news headlines and decode them, leading us on a journey through their twisted and highly entertaining view of the world. Each chapter is prefaced with a real-world headline ripped from today's chaotic news cycle: Trump's trade war. Dying bees. Rogue planets. Beyond Meat. Glaciers melting. Bronson and Gupta then decipher what's really...
99) Fatal invention: how science, politics, and big business re-create race in the twenty-first century
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New Press
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©2011
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Explores the ways science, politics, and large corporations affect race in the twenty-first century, discussing the efforts and results of the Human Genome Project, and describing how technology-driven science researchers are developing a genetic definition of race.
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This essential should serve as an introduction for a contemporary public discussion on genetic engineering. Genetic engineering affects us all in many areas and we must dare to think more colorful and further. In fact, the complete genetic material of viruses and bacteria can already be chemically produced and "brought to life". With genetic surgery, medicine is at a crossroads: do we want to treat hereditary diseases or "repair" them genetically?...
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