Download or read book The Immortality Virus written by Christine Amsden and published by Paladin Timeless. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-21st century, the human race stopped aging. Those who know why aren't talking, and the few who are brave enough to ask questions tend to disappear. To an elite few, The Change means long life and health, but to the increasing masses, it means starvation, desperation, and violence.Four centuries after The Change, Grace Harper, a blacklisted P.I., sets off on a mission to find the man responsible for it all and solicit his help to undo The Change -- if he's still alive. To complicate matters, Grace's employer is suspected of murdering his father, and when the police learn of their connection, they give her a choice -- help them find the evidence they need to convict Matthew Stanton, or die. But if they discover Grace's true mission, they won't hesitate to kill her in order to protect their shot at immortality.

Download or read book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks written by Rebecca Skloot and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The story of modern medicine and bioethics—and, indeed, race relations—is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”—Entertainment Weekly NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM HBO® STARRING OPRAH WINFREY AND ROSE BYRNE • ONE OF THE “MOST INFLUENTIAL” (CNN), “DEFINING” (LITHUB), AND “BEST” (THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER) BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF ESSENCE’S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS • WINNER OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE HEARTLAND PRIZE FOR NONFICTION NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Entertainment Weekly • O: The Oprah Magazine • NPR • Financial Times • New York • Independent (U.K.) • Times (U.K.) • Publishers Weekly • Library Journal • Kirkus Reviews • Booklist • Globe and Mail Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine: The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, which are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb’s effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions. Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave. Henrietta’s family did not learn of her “immortality” until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biological materials, her family never saw any of the profits. As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family—past and present—is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of. Over the decade it took to uncover this story, Rebecca became enmeshed in the lives of the Lacks family—especially Henrietta’s daughter Deborah. Deborah was consumed with questions: Had scientists cloned her mother? Had they killed her to harvest her cells? And if her mother was so important to medicine, why couldn’t her children afford health insurance? Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences.

Download or read book Lizzy Dupree and the Thousand Year Crush The Immortal Mistakes Book 2 written by Sandra L. Vasher and published by Mortal Ink Press, LLC. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is unrequited love forever? Lizzy Dupree falls for Myles the first time she meets him. But after a thousand years together in space, Myles is still pining for another girl. Lizzy knows Myles will never love her. Even so, when their mission is compromised and Myles volunteers to complete a risky repair outside the safety of their ship, Lizzy won’t let him go alone. Soon, Lizzy finds her immortal life in jeopardy, and Myles is unable to help her. But Lizzy isn’t the only member of the crew who has been hanging onto an impossible crush. Her best friend Maaz is determined to save her against all odds. Can he do it? If he can’t, he and Lizzy could be friend-zoned in outer space for all eternity. Lizzy Dupree and the Thousand-Year Crush follows Stella Rose Gold for Eternity as the second book in The Immortal Mistakes.

Download or read book Viruses More Friends Than Foes Revised Edition written by Karin Moelling and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coronavirus, AIDS, and Ebola: Viruses are normally defined as pathogens. Most viruses are, however, not enemies or killers. Well-known virologist and cancer researcher Karin Moelling describes surprising insights about a completely new and unexpected world of viruses. Viruses are ubiquitous, in the oceans, our environment, in animals, plants, bacteria, in our body, even in our genomes. They influence our weather, can contribute to control obesity, and can surprisingly be applied against threatening multi-resistant bacteria. The success story of the viruses started more than 3.5 billion years ago in the dawn of life when even cells did not exist. They are the superpower of life. There are more viruses on earth than stars in the sky. Viruses are everywhere. Some of them are incredibly ancient. Many viruses are hundredfold smaller than bacteria, but others are tenfold bigger and they were discovered only recently — the giant viruses, even deep within the permafrost where they were reactivated after 30,000 years.The author talks about a completely new world of viruses, which are based on the most recent, in part her own research results. Could viruses have been our oldest ancestors? Have viruses even 'invented' social behavior, do they lead to geniuses such as Mozart or Einstein — or alternatively to cancer? They can help to cure cancer. In this book, the author made a clear distinction between what is fact and what is her vision. This book is written for a general audience and not just for the experts. Its aim is to stimulate thinking, and perhaps to attract more young scientists to enter this field of research.This revised edition is brought up to date by a new chapter on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Related Link(s)

Download or read book Into the Dreaming written by Karen Marie Moning and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an ancient tapestry bearing the likeness of her beloved Aedan MacKinnon arrives on her doorstep, novelist Jane Sillee is whisked back in time to fifteenth-century Scotland where she is given one chance to save her dream lover.

Download or read book The Immortality Project written by Derek Emerson-Elliott and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Immortality Project explores the scientific theme of immortality in the context of a thriller, set in the fast-paced, international world of the wealthy and powerful. While they are not everyday people, the characters come alive for the reader as they experience romance and betrayal, forgiveness and loss. Intriguing discussions on the technology of immortality are interspersed throughout, providing a scientific framework, delivered at the everyday level of the layman.

Download or read book Stella Rose Gold for Eternity The Immortal Mistakes Book 1 written by Sandra L. Vasher and published by Mortal Ink Press, LLC. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How long is eternity? Stella Rose knows her doting boyfriend, Myles, will do anything for her. Then she tests positive for a gene that gives her a 96% chance of developing Early Alzheimer’s by age fifty, and their future together falls apart. Stella’s best chance is to apply for the Immortality Program. If Stella applies, Myles will too, but Myles has everything going for him as a mortal. Plus, his incredibly conservative, wealthy, powerful family abhors immortality. Stella must choose between thirty years of mortal bliss with Myles or a forever without him, unless Myles has other plans… Stella Rose Gold for Eternity is the first of The Immortal Mistakes, a set of novellas leading up to Sandra L. Vasher's upcoming young adult sci-fi /fantasy series, the Mortal Heritance.

Download or read book To Catch A Virus written by John Booss and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Catch a Virus To Catch a Virus Trace the evolution of diagnostic virology from yellow fever to COVID-19 Join expert storytellers John Booss, Marilyn J. August, and Marie Louise Landry in a journey through the history of viral epidemics and the detective work of those determined to identify the culprits and treat the infected. From the identification of the first virus in the late 1800s to the molecular techniques that enabled the rapid recognition of and vaccine development for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, viral diagnostic methods have progressed over the past century to become a formidable tool in human health care. This collection of gripping historical narratives covers a range of fascinating outbreaks and public health challenges, from yellow fever and smallpox to AIDS and COVID-19. This new edition chronicles the ongoing story of the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting the people, the pathogen, and the progress in the diagnostic laboratory and clinical settings that has touched every aspect of global health. The many photographs and rich biographical sketches of key figures, diagrams of diagnostic procedures, micrographs of virus-infected cells, timelines, and a new glossary of key terms make To Catch a Virus compelling reading. This book serves as an excellent resource for courses in virology, immunology, microbiology, and public health. As the world struggles with the ongoing pandemic of SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19, To Catch a Virus is an insightful and superbly told story that chronicles the incredible metamorphosis of diagnostic virology and the technological advances that now make it possible to quickly and accurately detect and monitor the many disease-causing viruses that plague humankind. A stimulating, informative, and absorbing read that is highly recommended. —Richard L. Hodinka, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania; former Director, Clinical Virology Laboratory, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia To Catch a Virus provides a beautifully written and compelling story of scientific discovery. It carefully traces the understanding of viral diseases from the turn of the twentieth century to the present. For general readers the authors provide timely and expert guidance to the extraordinary advances in diagnosis, surveillance, and therapeutics that constitute the silver lining in the otherwise somber years of COVID-19. For anyone wishing to understand the challenges confronting virologists and their accomplishments to date, this work is the place to start. —Frank M. Snowden, PhD, Andrew Downey Orrick Professor Emeritus of History, Yale University; former Chair, Program in History of Science and History of Medicine, Yale University

Download or read book Immortality Powered by Quaternary Medicine Code written by Anthony Scheiber and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-12-14 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IMMORTALITY Powered by Quaternary Medicine Code offers the world a medically feasible means of cheating death and extending anyones life. Deciphering the Quaternary Medicine Code leads to curing viral epidemics, defeating cancers, and reversing aging. The innovative medical advances described in this fast-paced adventure-mystery are exactly what everyone is seeking. IMMORTALITY Powered by Quaternary Medicine Code unfolds as Dr. Brenda Crosse, a bright, charismatic physician, labors tirelessly to discover a novel means to save her grandfather from an incurable cancer. Dr. Crosse develops an ingenious hybrid treatment. World leaders heatedly debate over allowing the development of a means to extend human life, to facilitate Mankind reaching the nearest star; securing survival of the species. Economists predict the postponement of death in the general population will lead to financial ruin for most governments. Dr. Crosse is thrust into the deadly matrix of world politics. Her life is threatened as she toils to modify and redeploy her cancer cure to reverse the aging process. Immortality is scientifically possible. The innovative paradigm shifts created by the Quaternary Medicine Code are destined to become standard medical practice. Anyone facing the sting of their own mortality will find this story to be an intriguing, vivacious departure fromwhat up until nowhas been considered the inevitable.

Download or read book Kingdoms of the Frozen Dead written by Sandra Vasher and published by Mortal Ink Press, LLC. This book was released on 2021-01-25 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you know your true enemies? Until a few months ago, Carina was an orphan on the run. Now she’s the crown princess of North Kepler, and she has a lot to contend with. There's the elitist Royal Society of North Kepler and her dad, the king, who insists on a personal security team for Carina the size of a small army. But the princess can't defeat the patriarchy until she conquers her own magic. So when a trusted friend shows up and offers to train Carina, she should be thrilled. Problem is, her new teacher comes with two guys she never wanted to see again: her immortal ex-boyfriend and the crown prince of South Kepler. Speaking of which, Prince Nathanial, the new crown prince of South Kepler, is grieving his sister's death and hiding from his kingdom with his mentor, a fugitive who refuses to allow Nate to return home. All Nate wants is to abdicate his title to his brother and clear his mentor's name. After all, Nate can barely contain his own magic. He knows he's not king-material! What he doesn't know is the disturbing secret his brother is keeping locked in a tower in the castle at Alighieri. Or how he's going to stop his new immortal buddy Max from going after Princess Carina. (Doesn't Max know how dangerous that girl is?) With North and South Kepler both in disarray, how will either crown withstand mounting attacks from the Immortal Empire? Kingdoms of the Frozen Dead is Book Two of the Mortal Heritance, a light-hearted indie sci-fi/fantasy series for young adults.

Download or read book AARP The Immortality Edge written by Michael Fossel and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AARP Digital Editions offer you practical tips, proven solutions, and expert guidance. Based on Nobel Prize–winning genetic research, AARP The Immortality Edge provides a simple plan to keep your telomeres healthy for better health and longevity. Telomeres play an important role in protecting our chromosomes from critical damage. The shortening of the telomere disrupts vital cellular function and promotes the previously seemingly inevitable onset of aging and various diseases, including cancer and Alzheimer's. Drawing from the groundbreaking discoveries about telomeres that won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine, this book includes a highly prescriptive program that shows you how to live longer by slowing telomere shortening and rejuvenating your cells through relatively simple alterations in nutrition habits and other lifestyle changes. Written by authors with extensive knowledge of genetics, telomeres, and longevity Offers a simple action plan you can start using immediately Includes a revolutionary new eating plan Recommends individualized supplement programs Shares a diet and exercise approach grounded in solid scientific research The exciting recent discoveries about telomeres promise to revolutionize our approach to anti-aging much as antioxidants did ten years ago. Unlike trendy diet and fitness books with no basis in science, The Immortality Edge targets health at its innermost level by laying out a realistic, lifelong plan using easy steps that can fit into any busy schedule-steps that can improve the length and quality of your life.

Download or read book Mila Hildebrand is Forever Not Yours The Immortal Mistakes Book 3 written by Sandra L. Vasher and published by Mortal Ink Press, LLC. This book was released on 2020-06-12 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scorn her at your immortal peril. Mila Hildebrand is a brainy beauty with her eyes on the sky. But her chances of reaching the stars are low when a terrorist attack leaves her dying from radiation poisoning along with hundreds of others. Then a miracle medical cure saves her, and there are just a few side effects. Red eyes and immortality. As an immortal, Mila’s dream of becoming an astronaut could be reality, but she soon finds that the immortal community is full of bullies who use, manipulate and stereotype her. Only Christian Godric, a socially awkward musical savant, sees her true potential. With Christian’s encouragement, Mila begins to fight for what is hers. But how far will she go to rise above her enemies? Can Mila get what she wants without losing herself? Or will the victim become the baddest villain of them all? Mila Hildebrand is Forever Not Yours is the third book in The Immortal Mistakes series. But this is just the beginning. See where immortality takes your favorite immortals in Sandra L. Vasher’s Mortal Heritance series.

Download or read book Hadoo Dawn written by Robert Grant Wealleans and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-11 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gillian Louise Douglas, former CIA operative, assassin, and U.S. Marshal falls in love with Cecily Valence, a vibrant, blue-eyed redhead. Gillian learns her lover is from another world, and of the Hadoo race, the most advanced race in the multiverse. This benign race seeded Earth with life long ago and, with the imminent emergence of other hostile races, the Hadoo require the inherent deadliness of their human children to create and train an intergalactic force of marshals to keep the peace and to suppress those races who seek to conquer and destroy the weak and the defenseless. An epic tale of adventure, suspense, love, and an intergalactic symbiosis between the advanced Hadoo and their deadly cousins from Earth, hired guns who will ensure law and order using powerful technologies and time-tested strategies. The brilliant and eidetic Gillian takes command. For evil races, they will face the Hadoo Dawn.

Download or read book Sisters of the Perilous Heart written by Sandra L. Vasher and published by Mortal Ink Press, LLC. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do to save a sister? As the last mortal kingdom of Kepler resists the Immortal Empire, its young queen faces a devastating attack. Queen Vivian is two minutes into her reign when an arrow pierces her heart and infects her with the Immortality Virus. But she has too much magic to become immortal and not enough to survive. She must find more magic fast, or she’ll die. Meanwhile, another young mortal faces an uncertain future of her own. Carina is fleeing for her life, but her magic is a tracking beam for immortals. She must learn to harness and control it, or she’ll be captured and killed. Then she meets the queen of South Kepler. Vivian needs Carina’s magic, and she can offer safe haven in exchange. But can Vivian trust this common girl? Carina isn’t on the kingdom’s registry of magicians. What if she’s a Northern rebel? A spy for the Immortal Empire? And will the truth be revealed in time to save them both? Sisters of the Perilous Heart is Book One of the Mortal Heritance.

Download or read book Covid 19 and Capitalism written by Koen Byttebier and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-22 with total page 1109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book provides a comprehensive analysis of the socioeconomic determinants of Covid-19. From the end of 2019 until presently, the world has been ravaged by the Covid-19 pandemic. Although the cause of this is (obviously) a virus, the extent to which this virus spread, and therefore the number of infections and deaths, was largely determined by socio-economic factors. From this, it follows that the course of the pandemic varies greatly from one country to another. This observation applies both to countries’ resilience to such a pandemic (which is mainly rooted in the period preceding the outbreak of the virus) and to the way in which countries have reacted to the virus (including the political choices on how to respond). Meanwhile, research has made it clear that the nature of this response (e.g., elimination policy, mitigation policy, and proceeding herd immunity) was, on the one hand, strongly determined by political and ideological factors and, on the other hand, was highly influential in the factors of success or failure in combating the pandemic. The book focuses on the situation in a number of Western regions (notably the USA, the UK, and the EU and its Member States). The author addresses the reasons why in many Western countries both pandemic prevention and response policies to Covid-19 have failed. The book concludes with recommendations concerning the rearrangement of the socio-economic order that could increase the resilience of (Western) societies against such pandemics.

Download or read book Transformation of Human Epithelial Cells 1992 written by George E Milo and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a conceptual explanation of the interrelationships that exist between the stages in the progression of initiated epithelial cells in culture compared with the diverse tissue of organs and the progression of tumors from different organ sites. The fate of the modification of adducts is discussed at the molecular level. The role that modifications in hot spots in oncogenes and supressor genes play at the molecular level and how these molecular modifications can lead to an explanation of molecular control in the formation of tumor phenotypes is also examined. Researchers in cell biology and toxicology, applied pharmacology, carcinogenesis, teratogenesis, mutagenesis, and molecular toxicology will find the book useful, interesting reading.

Download or read book Immunotherapy of Sarcoma written by Sandra P. D'Angelo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes recent progress in the development of immunotherapies for advanced sarcoma, paying special attention to the potential role of manipulations of the sarcoma tumor immune microenvironment in improving patient outcomes. Readers will find a thorough overview of the state of the art in tumor immunology and immunotherapy as they relate to sarcoma. Among the topics addressed are advances in vaccine therapy; cytokine therapies; natural killer cells; the development of adoptive T cell strategies; and the scope for use of checkpoint inhibitors in patients with sarcoma, mirroring the tremendous breakthroughs made in other malignancies. Detailed information is provided on laboratory and clinical research, with analysis of outcomes of recent trials and identification of key challenges. There is every reason to believe that more effective and less toxic therapies for metastatic sarcoma can be attained by deepening our understanding of cancer immunology and building on the advances in immunotherapy for other solid tumors. In this context, Immunotherapy of Sarcoma will be of high interest for all medical oncologists responsible for the treatment of sarcoma patients.