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“jeff wheelwright”

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  • The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess

    Race, Religion, and DNA

    by Jeff Wheelwright ...
    A brilliant and emotionally resonant exploration of science and family history.A vibrant young Hispano woman, Shonnie Medina, inherits a breast-cancer mutation known as BRCA1.185delAG. It is a genetic variant characteristic of Jews. The Medinas knew they were descended from Native Americans and Spanish Catholics, but they did not know that they had Jewish ancestry as well. The mutation most likely ... Read more

    $18.49 USD

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  • A Troublesome Inheritance

    Genes, Race and Human History

    by Nicholas Wade ...
    Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human storyFewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different races are biologically different from one another. For this understandable reason, the idea has been banished ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Secret of Our Success

    How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter

    by Joseph Henrich ...
    How our collective intelligence has helped us to evolve and prosperHumans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Odd Couples

    Extraordinary Differences between the Sexes in the Animal Kingdom

    by Daphne J. Fairbairn ...
    While we joke that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, our gender differences can't compare to those of other animals. For instance: the male garden spider spontaneously dies after mating with a female more than fifty times his size. Female cichlids must guard their eggs and larvae--even from the hungry appetites of their own partners. And male blanket octopuses employ a copulatory arm ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Introducing Proteomics

    From Concepts to Sample Separation, Mass Spectrometry and Data Analysis

    by Josip Lovric ...
    Introducing Proteomics gives a concise and coherent overview of every aspect of current proteomics technology, which is a rapidly developing field that is having a major impact within the life and medical sciences.This student-friendly book, based on a successful course developed by the author, provides its readers with sufficient theoretical background to be able to plan, prepare, and analyze a ... Read more

    $48.00 USD

  • DNA Repair in Cancer Therapy

    Molecular Targets and Clinical Applications

    Edited by Mark R. Kelley ...
    Cancer therapeutics include an ever-increasing array of tools at the disposal of clinicians in their treatment of this disease. However, cancer is a tough opponent in this battle, and current treatments, which typically include radiotherapy, chemotherapy and surgery, are not often enough to rid the patient of his or her cancer. Cancer cells can become resistant to the treatments directed at them, ... Read more

    $123.29 USD

  • Modern Prometheus

    Editing the Human Genome with Crispr-Cas9

    by Jim Kozubek ...
    Would you change your genes if you could? As we confront the 'industrial revolution of the genome', the recent discoveries of Crispr-Cas9 technologies are offering, for the first time, cheap and effective methods for editing the human genome. This opens up startling new opportunities as well as significant ethical uncertainty. Tracing events across a fifty-year period, from the first gene splicing ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Automated DNA Sequencing and Analysis

    Edited by Chris Fields, Mark D. Adams, J. Craig Venter ...
    A timely book for DNA researchers, Automated DNA Sequencing and Analysis reviews and assesses the state of the art of automated DNA sequence analysis-from the construction of clone libraries to the developmentof laboratory and community databases. It presents the methodologies and strategies of automated DNA sequence analysis in a way that allows them to be compared and contrasted. By taking a ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

  • Translational Genomics for Crop Breeding, Volume 1

    Biotic Stress

    Edited by Rajeev Varshney, Roberto Tuberosa ...
    Genomic Applications for Crop Breeding: Biotic Stress is the first of two volumes looking at the latest advances in genomic applications to crop breeding. This volume focuses on genomic-assisted advances for improving economically important crops against biotic stressors, such as viruses, fungi, nematodes, and bacteria. Looking at key advances in crops such as rice, barley, wheat, and potato ... Read more

    $197.00 USD

  • Systems Biology

    Constraint-based Reconstruction and Analysis

    by Bernhard Ø. Palsson ...
    Recent technological advances have enabled comprehensive determination of the molecular composition of living cells. The chemical interactions between many of these molecules are known, giving rise to genome-scale reconstructed biochemical reaction networks underlying cellular functions. Mathematical descriptions of the totality of these chemical interactions lead to genome-scale models that allow ... Read more

    $70.59 USD

  • A Primer of Conservation Genetics

    by Richard Frankham, Jonathan D. Ballou, David A. Briscoe ...
    This concise, entry level text provides an introduction to the importance of genetic studies in conservation and presents the essentials of the discipline in an easy-to-follow format, with main points and terms clearly highlighted. The authors assume only a basic knowledge of Mendelian genetics and simple statistics, making the book accessible to those with a limited background in these areas. ... Read more

    $59.09 USD

  • Genes in Development

    Re-reading the Molecular Paradigm

    by Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub ...
    Series series Science and Cultural Theory
    In light of scientific advances such as genomics, predictive diagnostics, genetically engineered agriculture, nuclear transfer cloning, and the manipulation of stem cells, the idea that genes carry predetermined molecular programs or blueprints is pervasive. Yet new scientific discoveries—such as rna transcripts of single genes that can lead to the production of different compounds from the same ... Read more

    $28.79 USD