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Harvard University Press
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
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Nearly four decades ago Richard Dawkins published The Selfish Gene, famously reducing humans to “survival machines” whose sole purpose was to preserve “the selfish molecules known as genes.” How these selfish genes work together to construct the organism, however, remained a mystery. Standing atop a wealth of new research, The Society of Genes now provides a vision of how genes cooperate and compete in the struggle for life. Pioneers in the...
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Series:
Bulletin volume 249
Publisher:
Agricultural Experiment Station of the Agricultural College of Colorado
Pub. Date:
1918
Language:
English
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Publisher:
HarperOne
Pub. Date:
[2015]
Language:
English
Description:
"Ready or not, medical practice is changing. Advances in the field of genomics--the study of how our DNA is constructed and functions--have made it easier for physicians to diagnose, treat, and even predict today's many pressing health concerns. With the emergence of genomic sequencing and DNA analysis, this is an exciting moment in science, medicine, and personal health. But it's also an uncertain time, one fraught with understandable and uncomfortable...
7. Genetics
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NoveList Series:
Publisher:
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Description:
"Learn all about the history of genetics research, from how scientists began studying genes to how their discoveries affect our lives today."--
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Publisher:
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
"Unraveling the Double Helix covers the most colorful period in the history of DNA, from the discovery of "nuclein" in the late 1860s to the publication of James Watson's The Double Helix in 1968. These hundred years included the establishment of the Nobel Prize, antibiotics, x-ray crystallography, the atom bomb and two devastating world wars--events which are strung along the thread of DNA like beads on a necklace. The story of DNA is a saga packed...
Series:
Miscellaneous volume no. 40
Publisher:
[Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station]
Pub. Date:
[1938]
Language:
English