Libros
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 science writer Nicholas Wade describes the race to decode the genome and how the new knowledge will transform medicine.
Soon, physicians will be able to screen people's genes for all the diseases to which they may be vulnerable. With the emerging art of regenerative medicine, physicians will use stem cells and genomic techniques to replace failing tissues and organs with new ones. Many drugs will be prescribed based on DNA information that will identify which pharmaceuticals are best for each patient.
Medicine will be customized for a patient's genetic makeup, providing treatments based on a precise understanding of the mechanism of disease itself. It may even be possible to extend the human life span by manipulating the genes that control it.
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Divulgación · En inglés
Matt Ridley
Harper Perennial, 2006
The genome's been mapped. But what does it mean? Arguably the most significant scientific discovery of the new century, the mapping of the twenty-three pairs of chromosomes that make up the human genome raises almost as many questions as it answers. Questions that will profoundly impact the way we think about disease,…
Divulgación · En inglés
Gary Zweiger
McGraw-Hill, 2002
The human genome (for the most part) has been sequenced, and we now find ourselves poised on the brink of a new era in science and in life. The enormous investment of money and effort that has been made in the HGP has brought into being a new science, the science of genomics. Going beyond the linking of genes to their…
Divulgación · En inglés
David Quammen
2018
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life’s history, with powerful implications for human health and even our own human…
Divulgación · En inglés
Rob DeSalle, Michael Yudell
Wiley & Sons, Limited, John, 2020
"Welcome to the Genome takes you right into the thick of today's most cutting-edge science and its far-reaching implications. Authors Rob DeSalle and Michael Yudell have written a book which clearly explains the ongoing saga of our attempts to understand the mystery of biology's Rosetta Stone and use its code to…
Divulgación · En inglés
David Reich
Pantheon Books, 2018
A groundbreaking book about how ancient DNA has profoundly changed our understanding of human history. Geneticists like David Reich have made astounding advances in the field of genomics, which is proving to be as important as archeology, linguistics, and written records as a means to understand our ancestry. In Who…
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…
