Download or read book Genes Dreams and Realities written by Burnet MacFarlane and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Genes Dreams and Realities written by Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Genes Dreams and Realities written by Burnet MacFarlane and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Genes Dreams and Realities written by Macfarlane Burnet and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book It Ain t Necessarily So written by Richard Lewontin and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2001-09-30 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is our nature—as individuals, as a species—determined by our evolution and encoded in our genes? If we unravel the protein sequences of our DNA, will we gain the power to cure all of our physiological and psychological afflictions and even to solve the problems of our society? Today biologists—especially geneticists—are proposing answers to questions that have long been asked by philosophy or faith or the social sciences. Their work carries the weight of scientific authority and attracts widespread public attention, but it is often based on what the renowned evolutionary biologist Richard Lewontin identifies as a highly reductive misconception: "the pervasive error that confuses the genetic state of an organism with its total physical and psychic nature as a human being." In these nine essays covering the history of modern biology from Darwin to Dolly the sheep, all of which were originally published in The New York Review of Books, Lewontin combines sharp criticisms of overreaching scientific claims with lucid expositions of the exact state of current scientific knowledge—not only what we do know, but what we don't and maybe won't anytime soon. Among the subjects he discusses are heredity and natural selection, evolutionary psychology and altruism, nineteenth-century naturalist novels, sex surveys, cloning, and the Human Genome Project. In each case he casts an ever-vigilant and deflationary eye on the temptation to look to biology for explanations of everything we want to know about our physical, mental, and social lives. These essays—several of them updated with epilogues that take account of scientific developments since they were first written—are an indispensable guide to the most controversial issues in the life sciences today. The second edition of this collection includes new essays on genetically modified food and the completion of the Human Genome Project. It is an indispensable guide to the most controversial issues in the life sciences today.
Download or read book Gene Dreams written by Robert Teitelman and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 1991 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of biotechnology companies and of the uneasy relationship between Wall Street and medical science in the 1980s.
Download or read book Gene Dreams written by Robert Teitelman and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the uneasy relationship between business and medical science, this book throws a generous bucket of cold water on the original expectations of genetic engineering. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Genetic Interaction and Gene Transfer written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Gene Therapy for Diseases of the Lung written by Kenneth Brigham and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This up-to-the-minute and comprehensive resource lucidly covers gene therapy for lung diseases from existing technologies delivering foreign DNA to the lungs via the airways or circulation to promising new approaches for the further development of safe and efficient gene delivery systems.
Download or read book Ethics Reproduction and Genetic Control written by Ruth Chadwick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-12-05 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revised edition with a new preface from the editor, leading scientists explain the nature and goals of `test tube' reproduction and genetic engineering, and their eugenic implications. In contrast to the Warnock report, the extended commentary considers the issues in the context of a social ethic rather than the individualist viewpoint.
Download or read book In the Name of Eugenics written by Daniel J. Kevles and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-05-08 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Kevles traces the study and practice of eugenics--the science of "improving" the human species by exploiting theories of heredity--from its inception in the late nineteenth century to its most recent manifestation within the field of genetic engineering. It is rich in narrative, anecdote, attention to human detail, and stories of competition among scientists who have dominated the field.
Download or read book The Compatibility Gene written by Daniel Michael Davis and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are far-reaching consequences of the way our body has evolved to fight disease. This book describes how genes link our struggle with disease to compatibility with others, the wiring of our brain, and success in pregnancy.
Download or read book Genetic Engineering Evolution of a Technological Issue written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Genetic Engineering Evolution of a Technological Issue Supplemental Report I Report Prepared for the Subcommittee on Science Research and Development Of Dec 1974 written by United States. Congress. House. Science and Astronautics Committee and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Genetic Destinies written by Peter Little and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Genetic Destinies" opens with the stories of the lives of two imaginary women, which encompass the very best and the very worst of our hopes for gene science. Understanding what is reality and what is myth, what is possible and what impossible, is the key to unlocking the reality of this science.
Download or read book Transhumanist Dreams and Dystopian Nightmares written by Maxwell J. Mehlman and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What will happen when technology allows us to direct our own evolution? Transhumanists advocate for the development and distribution of technologies that will enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities, even eliminate aging. What if the dystopian futures and transhumanist utopias found in the pages of science journals, Margaret Atwood novels, films like Gattaca, and television shows like Dark Angel are realized? What kind of world would humans have created? Maxwell J. Mehlman considers the promises and perils of using genetic engineering in an effort to direct the future course of human evolution. He addresses scientific and ethical issues without choosing sides in the dispute between transhumanists and their challengers. However, Transhumanist Dreams and Dystopian Nightmares reveals that radical forms of genetic engineering could become a reality much sooner than many people think, and that we need to encourage risk-management efforts. Whether scientists are dubious or optimistic about the prospects for directed evolution, they tend to agree on two things. First, however long it takes to perfect the necessary technology, it is inevitable that humans will attempt to control their evolutionary future, and second, in the process of learning how to direct evolution, we are bound to make mistakes. Our responsibility is to learn how to balance innovation with caution.
