Download or read book Love and Genetics written by Mark MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a family secret comes to light, lives are changed forever in this honest, beautiful, and sometimes painful memoir. When Mark, adopted at birth, set out to FIND his genetic family as an adult, he found something he never expected-three full-blood siblings, including a persistent sister who would alter the course of his life. He finds himself faced with the emotional task of coming to know his entire birth family, along with the unintended impact it has on his parents and his marriage. This raises age-old questions around the understanding of his own identity and his place in the world-now framed in extraordinarily real and explicit terms: What defines family? Nature or nurture? Life rarely affords such an opportunity for self-examination. The story focuses on the relationship that develops between Mark and his sister, Rachel, as they discover each other through constant letters and eventual face-to-face meetings. When Rachel learns that Mark and his wife are struggling with having children, a radical idea takes over-could she, a sister he never knew and still barely knows, one who lives on the other side of the country, possibly carry their child? Would they trust her to? Including original correspondence between Rachel, Mark, and their biological mother, Marilyn, Love & Genetics follows the events of a tumultuous year in an astonishing story of love, loss, and the meaning of family.

Download or read book Never Mind the Genetics written by Mel Thorn and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since breaking up with his high school girlfriend seventeen years ago, Kevin had no idea that he had left something precious behind with her. Now at age thirty-five, his success has brought him everything in life that he might need-- all except companionship. Since his birth seventeen years ago, Andrew and his mother haven't had a very peaceful relationship. Born into a family that couldn't afford him, and haunted him with threats of violence, he hoped and wished for a better life-- a life with the father he had never met. After years of bickering and bitterness, Andrew's mother takes him not only to meet, but live with his long, lost parent. What Andrew expects is a cold shoulder, but what he gets instead is a warm welcome. Kevin's gentle demeanor and sweet words are all it takes for Andrew to understand the true meaning of what it is to be loved, but something else-- something bright and unexpected-- blossoms from their growing friendship: a very different kind of love.

Download or read book Time Love Memory written by Jonathan Weiner and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Nobel Prize–winning discoveries regarding the molecular mechanisms controlling the body’s circadian rhythm. How much of our fate is decided before we are born? Which of our characteristics is inscribed in our DNA? Weiner brings us into Benzer's Fly Rooms at the California Institute of Technology, where Benzer, and his asssociates are in the process of finding answers, often astonishing ones, to these questions. Part biography, part thrilling scientific detective story, Time, Love, Memory forcefully demonstrates how Benzer's studies are changing our world view--and even our lives. Jonathan Weiner, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Beak of the Finch, brings his brilliant reporting skills to the story of Seymour Benzer, the Brooklyn-born maverick scientist whose study of genetics and experiments with fruit fly genes has helped revolutionize or knowledge of the connections between DNA and behavior both animal and human.

Download or read book What s in Your Genes written by Katie McKissick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-01-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get the low-down on genetics with easy-to-understand terms and clear explanations. From interpreting dominant and recessive genes to learning about mutations, this book shows the different factors that can determine a person's DNA.

Download or read book Peace Love Genetics Journal written by Epic Love Books and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-05 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peace Love Genetics Journal. A cute geneticist notebook gift featuring a cool peace sign, heart, and DNA double helix strand. 100 blank lined pages.

Download or read book Love Gene Positive written by Nighat jamal and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2023-06-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you Love Gene positive? This is not a science book however carries a scientific message to each one. This book gives a very friendly message to those planning to get married and searching for a well-suited companion resolution for marriage. The honeymoon length of marriage lifestyles is distinct from acceptable lifestyles time length of marriage. Maintenance of blissful completely satisfied marriage relies upon Trust, Kindness, Empathy and Forgiveness. These characteristics are woven in character and persona is a product of environment and genes. Now it is suggested that genetics dominates the environment. In the book latest thoughts on Love Genes are different from Zodiac signs and religious ideology is discussed to get the most compatible partner for eternal happy married life. Compatible couples have a healthy relationships, share similar views, and comprehend each other's perspectives in life. Being compatible could help you get along with your other half, even though you have contrasting opinions. Good compatibility brings understanding, acceptance, and a strong interdependent relationship. Other topics discussed are, rituals of marriage in different religions love marriage and Weddings in the Metaverse (Digital visual world).

Download or read book The Love Gene written by Lewis Kornfeld and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006-03-24 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Cathy Cox’s husband Donald deserts her, leaving her alone to support their daughter Lilith, Cathy is determined to stick with her satisfying job as an art director at a large New York City ad agency and have nothing more to do with men. She rears Lilith with the same mind-set: the awareness that most men are interested in “making out” than in making do with companionship and honorable intentions. However, very gradually, both find men in their future no matter how diligently they try to avoid them. Red-headed Lilith follows her blond mother into the advertising agency business, although her talent is copywriting rather than art. Her first novel — “The Ladies’ Room” — written as her Hunter College thesis, becomes the plot of a movie, the re-write task of Poet Jason Greenberg, and a source of pre-publication income almost beyond belief. A succession of unanticipated income streams from client contacts and family inheritances makes Lilith a virtual millionaire in a single 1990s year and at age 24, to everyone’s amazement and the more modest enrichment of more than a few associates. As the action rotates between New York, California and France, Lilith’s sexuality goes from dormant to off-the-wall. Meanwhile, her mother Cathy drifts erratically from desertion to a long-time loveless affair, then toward the real thing when her long lost husband turns up found, but.... Readers are advised not to ask what comes after the “but.... ” because Mr. Kornfeld won’t tell, at least not on this cover! Author of six other books, he has BA and MA degrees from the University of Denver, an LHD from Boston University, and was a longtime director and president of Radio Shack Corporation. A native Bostonian, Lewis Kornfeld has lived in Fort Worth, Texas since 1970. His e-mail address is [email protected].

Download or read book The Love Genes written by Claudia J. Severin and published by Pella Road Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-15 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The DNA didn’t lie. Somebody did. I always knew where I came from. The Schulz family tree was populated with conscientious, hard-working moral citizens. So why were these so-called cousins claiming my ancestors had secret babies one hundred years ago? I had to prove these allegations were false to protect my family’s name. Even if it meant traveling hundreds of miles to interrogate unknown relatives. Even if it meant finding a heart-stopping man who might be the perfect combination of genetic material from all our common pedigrees. His DNA would solve the mystery. His love would steal my heart. Part Historical and part Contemporary Romance, the Love Genes bridges the gap between generations born in two centuries using the science of DNA testing to reveal past assignations.

Download or read book The Love Gene written by Shahin Asadi and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Evolution of Love written by Ada Lampert and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1997-09-16 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lampert presents the story of love: when, why, and how love became a central experience of humans. Assuming that our world is built of matter, she states that evolution is the change of this matter, according to the supreme criterion of success in offspring reproduction. Love evolved because of its contribution to reproduction. It first appeared in the mothers of mammals, who used the body's proximity as a main adaptation. Human love expands its borders to include the relationships between women and men, friends, and even nonhuman subjects. Lampert describes motherhood as the source of the genetic, hormonal, brain, and behavioral changes that we call love. In the sexual stage, love enters both as a way to select a partner and as a bonding force. Sexuality is built upon ancient layers of early forms of life, before humanity, and includes strong elements of aggression which interrupt our ability to experience a peaceful sexual life. Maternal love and sexual love combine in the evolution of the family. Lampert also examines homosexual love as a way to look at the fascinating process of growing sexual identity and behavior in an individual. Written in a style suited to any educated person, Lampert uses current scientific knowledge on the brain, hormones, the nervous system, ethology, psychology, and even modern physics to make her case. This book will be of interest to students and scholars alike.

Download or read book Sex Love and DNA written by Peter Schattner and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can 21st-century molecular biology answer age-old questions about the human experience? Can studying proteins and DNA help us understand how we make our choices in sex and love? How we communicate? Where our emotions come from? Or why we age and die?......... In this fascinating journey into the biology of cells, scientist and educator Peter Schattner explains how proteins and DNA affect our lives. "Sex Love and DNA" explores the amazing world of molecular biology through stories of people who don't feel pain because of rare genetic variants, children whose DNA enables them to perform unusual feats of strength, and people who can't speak or read simply because they lack certain proteins. Written in language that anyone can understand, "Sex Love and DNA" will show you how science is revolutionizing our understanding of what it means to be human......... "Reading this book raises a feeling similar to watching one of those fascinating National Geographic specials--the one where you are so entertained, you do not realize you are learning." -- New York Journal of Books......... "Marvelous entrance for those ready to plunge into popular science." -- Kirkus Reviews......... "Immensely absorbing and eye opening"-- San Francisco Book Review......... "Will astound and entertain you far more than any science fiction" - Bookviews......... Finalist, "Best Independently Published Book of 2014" -- Shelf Unbound Reviews

Download or read book The Relationship Code written by David Reiss and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report of a longitudinal study of the influence of family relationships and genetic factors on competence and psychopathology in adolescent development proposes that family relationships are crucial to the expression of genetic influences and may constitute a code for translating genetic influences into the ontogeny of behaviors.

Download or read book For the Love of Children written by Ted Peters and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the ethics of new reproductive technologies

Download or read book Gene Environment Interplay in Interpersonal Relationships across the Lifespan written by Briana N. Horwitz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intriguing new findings on how genes and environments work together through different stages of life take the spotlight in this significant collection. Studies from infancy to late adulthood show both forces as shaping individuals' relationships within family and non-family contexts, and examine how these relationships, in turn, continue to shape the individual. Transitional periods, in which individuals become more autonomous and relationships and personal identities become more complicated, receive special emphasis. In addition, chapters shed light on the extent to which the quantity and quality of genetic and environmental influence may shift across and even within life stages. Included in the coverage: Gene-environment interplay in parenting young children. The sibling relationship as a source of shared environment. Gene-environment transactions in childhood and adolescent problematic peer relationships. Toward a developmentally sensitive and genetically informed perspective on popularity. Spouse, parent, and co-worker: roles and relationships in adulthood. The family system as a unit of clinical care: the role of genetic systems. Behavioral geneticists, clinical psychologists, and family therapists will find in Gene-Environment Interplay in Interpersonal Relationships across the Lifespan a window into current thinking on the subject, new perspectives for understanding clients and cases, and ideas for further study.

Download or read book Examining the Causal Relationship Between Genes Epigenetics and Human Health written by Wambuguh, Oscar J. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-03-22 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For as much as we know about DNA and gene expression, many more mysteries remain to be solved. Epigenetics and epigenomics seek to study heritable modifications in gene expression that do not involve underlying DNA sequences to further human health changes. Examining the Causal Relationship Between Genes, Epigenetics, and Human Health provides innovative research methods and applications of chemical activation or deactivation of genes without altering the original DNA sequence. While highlighting topics including gene expression, personalized medicine, and public policy, this book is ideal for researchers, geneticists, biologists, medical professionals, students, and academics seeking current research on the expanding fields of genomics, epigenomics, proteomics, pharmacogenomics, and genome-wide association studies.

Download or read book The Love Genes written by Claudia J Severin and published by Romancing Our Roots. This book was released on 2023-07-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The DNA didn't lie. Somebody did. I put my family tree online to help others. Little did I dream that ancestor hunters would arrive at my doorstep trying to taint my virtuous legacy. The sooner I could prove it was all nonsense, the better. The Schulz family wasn't wealthy, but we'd all worked conscientiously to achieve the American dream. My quest led to Dustin: a stranger living hundreds of miles away who shared unfamiliar forebears six generations back. As soon as our eyes locked, we knew we shared a burning attraction and bond rooted deep in our genes. Will I be able to surrender my heart after my previous fiancée betrayed me? Can he overcome the torment left when his wife died leaving him to raise a precocious daughter? The pull between us was undeniable. But a story that had begun nearly one hundred years earlier now felt like it was altering our lives at breakneck speed. How could we avoid the mistakes made by generations past? Or was this all-consuming love our destiny? "Explore the captivating world of 'The Love Genes' and witness how the choices made by Anselm and Adelaide in the 1920s echo through the lives of their descendants, Darcy and Dustin, forging an unbreakable connection that defies all odds. A fusion of Historical and Contemporary Romance grows out of the same family tree."

Download or read book The Ethics of Reproductive Genetics written by Marta Soniewicka and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is aimed at analyzing the foundations of medical ethics by considering different moral theories and their implications for judgments in clinical practice and policy-making. It provides a review of the major types of ethical theory that can be applied to medical and bioethical issues concerning reproductive genetics. In response to the debate on the most adequate ethical doctrine to guide biomedical decisions, this book formulates views that capture the best elements in each, bearing in mind their differences and taking into account the specific character of medicine. No historically influential position in ethics is by itself adequate to be applied to reproductive decisions. Thus, this book attempts to offer a pluralistic approach to biomedical research and medical practice. One usually claims that there are some basic principles (non-maleficence, beneficence, confidentiality, autonomy, and justice) which constitute the foundations of bioethics and medical ethics. Yet these principles conflict with each other and one needs some criteria to solve these conflicts and to specify the scope of application of these principles. Exploring miscellaneous ethical approaches as introduced to biomedicine, particularly to reproductive genetics, the book shall elucidate their different assumptions concerning human nature and the relations between healthcare providers, recipients, and other affected parties (e.g. progeny, relatives, other patients, society). The book attempts to answer the question of whether the tension between these ethical doctrines generates conflict in the field of biomedicine or if these competing approaches could in some way complement each other. In this respect, lecturers and researchers in bioethics would be interested in this reading this book.