Libros
Karl Drlica · John Wiley and Sons (WIE), 2003
Do you realize how much impact DNA technology has on your life today? Registering your child's DNA with the police, bold new medical cures, the perfect tomato, gene cloning and DNA manipulation are no longer remote events that will have impact in your life they are today's headlines! In this highly acclaimed guide, Karl Drlica fully explains the basis of the ongoing genetic revolution.
He guides you through the science and technology you need to understand the issues and make informed decisions. This text can be used either as a main text in a course where instructors want to use a thematic, case study approach to biology, a non majors genes or genomics course, or as a supplement for "Introductory Biology".
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Divulgación · En inglés
Nicholas Wade
Simon & Schuster, 2002
With the decoding of the human genome, researchers can now read the genetic program that evolution has written for the human body. A new generation of medical treatments is at hand, and researchers hope to uncover the genetic roots of illness and develop new therapies for most major diseases. Here, New York Times…
Divulgación · En inglés
Colin Hiram Tudge
Penguin Random House, 2011
"In The Engineer in the Garden, Colin Tudge leads us through the intricacies of genetic theory - from its earliest classical form, to plant and animal breeding, to cloning and the Human Genome Project. He explains and questions the presumptions and ramifications of every scientific assertion about "advance," including…
Divulgación · En inglés
Eric S. Grace
Joseph Henry Press, 2006
"Biotechnology" may raise more hope and fear...revelation and confusion...excitement and alarm than any other term in today's headlines. In Biotechnology Unzipped, scientist and skilled science popularizer Eric Grace helps readers understand what biotechnology is and what implications it holds for all of us. Grace…
Universitario
James D. Watson, Nancy H. Hopkins y otros
Editorial Medica Panamericana, 2006
La 5ª edición del texto clásico de James D. Watson, Biología Molecular del Gen, con una trayectoria de 40 años en el campo de la biología molecular, si bien conserva su filosofía original, refleja los avances espectaculares ocurridos en esta disciplina desde la última edición. Está organizada en cinco partes. En la…
Universitario · En inglés
Ted Peters
Routledge, 2002
Since the original publication of Playing God? in 1996, three developments in genetic technology have moved to the center of the public conversation about the ethics of human bioengineering. Cloning, the completion of the human genome project, and, most recently, the controversy over stem cell research have all…
Divulgación
Walter Isaacson
Random House Espanol, 2021
A scientific biography of Jennifer Doudna, a founder and co-developer of the CRISPR gene-editing mechanism, and an examination of what happened after CRISPR hit the marketplace.
