Download or read book El gran libro de los genes y el ADN written by Anna Claybourne and published by Usborne Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La vida moderna ha impuesto algunos nuevos retos a la comunidad científica. Los descubrimientos más recientes de la Genética han estremecido todas las estructuras tradicionales de múltiples especialidades médicas. La materia despertó muchísimas interrogantes. Ahora mismo se desarrolla un intenso debate que involucra conceptos relacionados con la moralidad y la ética. Pero el futuro se vislumbra, por lo general, con optimismo. Este libro es un primer acercamiento a la materia. En él se utilizan todos los recursos para introducirnos al tema. Para ello se ocupan todas las técnicas: ilustraciones en tercera dimensión, diagramas simplificados, textos resumidos y muy explicativos. Aquí se hablará de todo: reproducción, genoma humano, terapia de genes, bebés en probeta ... Necesario y útil material de consulta.

Download or read book Britannica Enciclopedia Moderna written by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc and published by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 2982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Britannica Enciclopedia Moderna covers all fields of knowledge, including arts, geography, philosophy, science, sports, and much more. Users will enjoy a quick reference of 24,000 entries and 2.5 million words. More then 4,800 images, graphs, and tables further enlighten students and clarify subject matter. The simple A-Z organization and clear descriptions will appeal to both Spanish speakers and students of Spanish.

Download or read book Why We Believe in God s written by J. Anderson Thomson and published by Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA). This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking volume, J. Anderson Thomson, Jr., MD, with Clare Aukofer, offers a succinct yet comprehensive study of how and why the human mind generates religious belief. Dr. Thomson, a highly respected practicing psychiatrist with credentials in forensic psychiatry and evolutionary psychology, methodically investigates the components and causes of religious belief in the same way any scientist would investigate the movement of astronomical bodies or the evolution of life over time—that is, as a purely natural phenomenon. Providing compelling evidence from psychology, the cognitive neurosciences, and related fields, he, with Ms. Aukofer, presents an easily accessible and exceptionally convincing case that god(s) were created by man—not vice versa. With this slim volume, Dr. Thomson establishes himself as a must-read thinker and leading voice on the primacy of reason and science over superstition and religion.

Download or read book Molecular Biotechnology written by Bernard R. Glick and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition explains the principles of recombinant DNA technology as well as other important techniques such as DNA sequencing, the polymerase chain reaction, and the production of monclonal antibodies.

Download or read book The Laws of Medicine written by Siddhartha Mukherjee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential, required reading for doctors and patients alike: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one of the world’s premiere cancer researchers reveals an urgent philosophy on the little-known principles that govern medicine—and how understanding these principles can empower us all. Over a decade ago, when Siddhartha Mukherjee was a young, exhausted, and isolated medical resident, he discovered a book that would forever change the way he understood the medical profession. The book, The Youngest Science, forced Dr. Mukherjee to ask himself an urgent, fundamental question: Is medicine a “science”? Sciences must have laws—statements of truth based on repeated experiments that describe some universal attribute of nature. But does medicine have laws like other sciences? Dr. Mukherjee has spent his career pondering this question—a question that would ultimately produce some of most serious thinking he would do around the tenets of his discipline—culminating in The Laws of Medicine. In this important treatise, he investigates the most perplexing and illuminating cases of his career that ultimately led him to identify the three key principles that govern medicine. Brimming with fascinating historical details and modern medical wonders, this important book is a fascinating glimpse into the struggles and Eureka! moments that people outside of the medical profession rarely see. Written with Dr. Mukherjee’s signature eloquence and passionate prose, The Laws of Medicine is a critical read, not just for those in the medical profession, but for everyone who is moved to better understand how their health and well-being is being treated. Ultimately, this book lays the groundwork for a new way of understanding medicine, now and into the future.

Download or read book LA ESTRELLA PERDIDA Segundo libro de la trilog a EL PAPIRO written by Diego Fortunato and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2021-01-29 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sinopsis ¡REVELADORA!... ¡ÚNICA E IRREPETIBLE!... Un grupo de arqueólogos descubren en unos viejos papiros el misterio de La Vera Cruz, la cruz de la crucifixión de Cristo. Los escritos revelaban que los esenios, hermandad de la que formaba parte Jesucristo, la habían llevado y escondido en la cima del enigmático Kukenán, el llamado Tepuy de los Muertos, en la Gran Sabana, al sureste de Venezuela. Divor Klaus, un avezado antropólogo y aventurero, parte a buscarla porque los pergaminos revelaban que la cruz se materializaría a las tres de la tarde del Domingo de Resurrección de ese año. La Santa Sede, apoyada por los Dei Pax, una banda de sicarios al servicio de la Iglesia, va tras su pista, pero se topa con un místico secreto: el nacimiento en la tierra de los Nion, una especie de niños ángeles con poderes celestiales. Intrigas y confabulaciones se apoderan del Vaticano y sus más altos prelados hasta que el día señalado deviene la alineación del Triángulo Divino, acontecimiento que devela nuevas y tenebrosas profecías para la humanidad. Cuadro de la portada: En el año del silencio, de Diego Fortunato (Serie Horizontes Perdidos, 1991).-

Download or read book Systematics of Cyst Nematodes Nematoda Heteroderinae Part A written by Sergei A. Subbotin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-08-23 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 8 in the series, appearing in two parts, A and B, deals with the systematics of cyst nematodes of the subfamily Heteroderinae. Cyst nematodes are important pathogens causing extensive damage and significant yield loss to many crops in both temperate and tropical regions. Part A presents summarised information on various aspects of morphology, biology, ecology, pathology, biogeography, control measures and diagnostics of these nematodes. Molecular diagnostic tables and comprehensive tabular and dichotomous keys for species identification, together with descriptions of protocols for extraction, light and electron microscopy studies, and molecular diagnostics are also included. The taxonomic section of part A provides diagnoses for six genera, viz., Globodera, Punctodera, Cactodera, Dolichodera, Betulodera and Paradolichodera, and includes descriptions and morphometrics of 30 valid species. The work is illustrated by 101 drawings and photos. The genus Heterodera is mainly covered in part B, complete descriptions and morphometrics of the 80 known valid species being provided and the species illustrated by 159 line drawings and photos. Identification of the species using morphological and molecular techniques is also covered. Each part includes an extensive bibliography.

Download or read book Human Evolutionary Genetics written by Mark Jobling and published by Garland Science. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 1538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human Evolutionary Genetics is a groundbreaking text which for the first time brings together molecular genetics and genomics to the study of the origins and movements of human populations. Starting with an overview of molecular genomics for the non-specialist (which can be a useful review for those with a more genetic background), the book shows h

Download or read book El gran libro de los genes y el ADN written by Anna Claybourne and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the role of DNA and genes in reproduction, and discusses heredity, the history of genetics, such new techniques and developments as genetic engineering and cloning, and the ethical issues which they may raise.

Download or read book The Gene written by Siddhartha Mukherjee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 laboriously, ingeniously picked apart what makes us tick” (Elle). “Sid Mukherjee has the uncanny ability to bring together science, history, and the future in a way that is understandable and riveting, guiding us through both time and the mystery of life itself.” —Ken Burns “Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee dazzled readers with his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Emperor of All Maladies in 2010. That achievement was evidently just a warm-up for his virtuoso performance in The Gene: An Intimate History, in which he braids science, history, and memoir into an epic with all the range and biblical thunder of Paradise Lost” (The New York Times). In this biography Mukherjee brings to life the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices. “Mukherjee expresses abstract intellectual ideas through emotional stories…[and] swaddles his medical rigor with rhapsodic tenderness, surprising vulnerability, and occasional flashes of pure poetry” (The Washington Post). Throughout, the story of Mukherjee’s own family—with its tragic and bewildering history of mental illness—reminds us of the questions that hang over our ability to translate the science of genetics from the laboratory to the real world. In riveting and dramatic prose, he describes the centuries of research and experimentation—from Aristotle and Pythagoras to Mendel and Darwin, from Boveri and Morgan to Crick, Watson and Franklin, all the way through the revolutionary twenty-first century innovators who mapped the human genome. “A fascinating and often sobering history of how humans came to understand the roles of genes in making us who we are—and what our manipulation of those genes might mean for our future” (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel), The Gene is the revelatory and magisterial history of a scientific idea coming to life, the most crucial science of our time, intimately explained by a master. “The Gene is a book we all should read” (USA TODAY).

Download or read book Without Criteria written by Steven Shaviro and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-08-17 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Deleuzian reading of Whitehead and a Whiteheadian reading of Deleuze open the possibility of a critical aesthetics of contemporary culture. In Without Criteria, Steven Shaviro proposes and explores a philosophical fantasy: imagine a world in which Alfred North Whitehead takes the place of Martin Heidegger. What if Whitehead, instead of Heidegger, had set the agenda for postmodern thought? Heidegger asks, “Why is there something, rather than nothing?” Whitehead asks, “How is it that there is always something new?” In a world where everything from popular music to DNA is being sampled and recombined, argues Shaviro, Whitehead's question is the truly urgent one. Without Criteria is Shaviro's experiment in rethinking postmodern theory, especially the theory of aesthetics, from a point of view that hearkens back to Whitehead rather than Heidegger. In working through the ideas of Whitehead and Deleuze, Shaviro also appeals to Kant, arguing that certain aspects of Kant's thought pave the way for the philosophical “constructivism” embraced by both Whitehead and Deleuze. Kant, Whitehead, and Deleuze are not commonly grouped together, but the juxtaposition of them in Without Criteria helps to shed light on a variety of issues that are of concern to contemporary art and media practices.

Download or read book Comprender el c ncer written by María I. Tapia and published by María I. Tapia. This book was released on 2019-07-24 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprender el cáncer NO es un libro de autoayuda, ni de curas milagrosas, ni de pseudociencia, ni un panfleto de una farmacéutica, sino un libro que resume lo que nos gustaría que nos explicasen los (buenos) médicos sobre el cáncer si tuviesen más tiempo para hablar con los pacientes. En él encontrarás información actualizada y rigurosa, pero inteligible, sobre la forma actual de entender el cáncer, hasta qué punto se puede prevenir y curar, y por qué este no se trata de la misma manera ahora que hace diez o veinte años. La autora aborda las preguntas que casi todos nos hacemos acerca del cáncer, especialmente si la enfermedad nos toca de cerca (lo que, tarde o temprano ocurrirá —directa o indirectamente—). Haremos un rápido viaje a través del tiempo para asomarnos a la historia del conocimiento del cáncer y a los (tremendos) tratamientos del pasado. Ese viaje nos traerá al presente, al conocimiento y a los tratamientos actuales. Hablaremos de las ventajas de las nuevas técnicas de diagnóstico y de los tratamientos más punteros. Y también de los graves inconvenientes y de lo que aún no sabemos. Por último, nos asomaremos al futuro de la prevención, del diagnóstico y del tratamiento del cáncer. EL LIBRO EXPLICA: • Cómo y por qué aparece el cáncer • En qué medida se puede evitar • Qué cánceres se pueden curar actualmente y cuáles no SOBRE LA AUTORA María I. Tapia es Doctora en Bioquímica y Biología Molecular. Ha desarrollado su carrera profesional durante más de veinte años en el sector farmacéutico y agroalimentario (regulación del metabolismo, desarrollo de nuevas vacunas, alimentación y salud, etc.). ESTO ENCONTRARÁS EN EL LIBRO PARTE 1 LA CÉLULA OPORTUNISTA 1. Deconstruyendo la vida 2. El sentido de la vida es generar más vida 3. Nosotros, los de entonces, ya no somos los mismos 4. El cuerpo humano es una conversación entre células 5. Esa molécula no tan estúpida 6. Los genes se «encienden» y se «apagan» 7. Qué no es el cáncer 8. La naturaleza desbocada 9. ¿Cómo una célula normal se transforma en cancerosa? 10. ¿Cuántas mutaciones se necesitan para causar un cáncer? 11. La enfermedad de las vías 12. Otro camino hacia el cáncer 13. Recapitulación 14. Hay un cáncer latente en cada uno de nosotros PARTE 2 TRATAMIENTOS 15. Una historia increíble 16. ¿Por qué los científicos no han curado el cáncer todavía? 17. Radioterapia 18. Quimioterapia 19. Terapias dirigidas 20. Destruir la célula cancerosa 21. Reparar la célula cancerosa 22. Inmunoterapia: la gran esperanza 23. Medicina personalizada 24. Biopsia líquida 25. El problema económico 26. Las farmacéuticas 27. Más problemas 28. Las dos caras de la moneda 29. ¿Se podrán curar todos los cánceres algún día? PARTE 3 ¿Y AHORA QUÉ? 30. ¿Qué pasa cuando nos detectan un cáncer? 31. El futuro ¿Por qué he escrito este libro?

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Download or read book The Best American Science Writing 2000 written by James Gleick and published by Ecco. This book was released on 2000-09-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume in this annual series of the best writing by Americans, meticulously selected by bestselling author James Gleick, one of the foremost chronicles of scientific social history, debuts with a stellar collection of writers and thinkers. Many of these cutting-edge essays offer glimpses of new realms of discovery and thought, exploring territory that is unfamiliar to most of us, or finding the unexpected in the midst of the familiar. Nobel Laureate physicist Steven Weinberg challenges the idea of whether the universe has a designer; Pulitzer Prize winner Natalie Angier reassesses caveman (and-woman) couture; bestselling author and Darwinian theorist Stephen Jay Gould makes a claim for the man whose ideas Darwin discredited; Timothy Ferris proposes a realistic alternative to wrap-speed interseller travel; neurologist and bestselling author Oliver Sacks reminisces about his first loves-chemistry and math. This diverse, stimulating and accessible collection is required reading for anyone who wants to travel to the frontier of knowledge.

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Download or read book From Epigenesis to Epigenetics written by Linda van Speybroeck and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today it is acknowledged that the expression of the genome depends on its intracellular, intercellular, organismic and environmental contexts. This text brings together reflections of researchers in molecular and developmental biology and philosophy of science on this field of biological research.

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