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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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The #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller
The basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate History
Now includes an excerpt from Siddhartha Mukherjee's new book Song of the Cell!
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and "a magisterial account of how human minds have...
The basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate History
Now includes an excerpt from Siddhartha Mukherjee's new book Song of the Cell!
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and "a magisterial account of how human minds have...
Author
Language
English
Description
Presents a history of our understanding of heredity and how it has shaped human society, chronicling the transitions brought about by gene research and sharing anecdotal insights into his own family's experiences while making predictions about how evolving understandings are likely to impact the future.
6) The invisible history of the human race: how DNA and history shape our identities and our futures
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
7) The one
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A decade after scientists discover that everyone has a "soulmate gene" that they share with just one other person, five people meet their matches, only to be torn by shocking secrets.
Author
Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Gonorrhea. Bed bugs. Weeds. Salamanders. People. All are evolving, some surprisingly rapidly, in response to our chemical age. In Unnatural Selection, Emily Monosson shows how our drugs, pesticides, and pollution are exerting intense selection pressure on all manner of species. And we humans might not like the result.
11) Genetics
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Series
Publisher
ABDO Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
From an acclaimed Harvard professor and one of Time's most influential people, this paradigm-shifting book shows how almost everything we think we know about aging is wrong, offers a front-row seat to the amazing global effort to slow, stop, and reverse aging, and calls readers to consider a future where aging can be treated.
Author
Publisher
Adams Media
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Genetics 101 breaks down the science of how genes are inherited and passed from parents to offspring, what DNA is and how it works, how your DNA affects your health, and how you can use your personal genomics to find out more about who you are and where you come from.
Author
Publisher
BenBella Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive look at cystic fibrosis, from its late 1930s discovery to the recent development of breakthrough treatments for 90% of patients, and the way treatments for the previously fatal disease are opening the door for curing other life-threatening conditions.
Author
Series
Shaw Confessions volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Legacies are revealed, lies unraveled, and old alliances forged as Noah tries to escape the consequences of his choices and move forward without first confronting his past.
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 8
Language
English
Description
After a pregnant woman is kidnapped by Somali pirates, Sigma Force, with the help of former army ranger Captain Tucker Wayne and his military war dog Kane, finds this rescue mission turning into a conspiracy of epic proportions.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
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.
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