Isaacson, Walter
Summary: "When Jennifer Doudna was a sixth grader in Hilo, Hawaii, she came home from school one afternoon and found a book on her bed. It was The Double Helix, James Watson's account of how he and Francis Crick had discovered the structure of DNA, the spiral-staircase molecule that carries the genetic instruction code for all forms of life. This book guided Jennifer Doudna to focus her studies not on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA 921 DOUSummary: Scientific genetics, little more than a century old, holds at once the promise of eradicating disease and the threat of altering the very essence of what it means to be human. It traces the dizzying evolution of this new science as researchers race to identify treatments for genetic diseases, such as cancer and sickle cell anemia, and to perfect tools for rewriting DNA.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Two lab mice living in the Acme labs seek to formulate a plan for the duo, led by Brain, to take over the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PINFitzpatrick, Colleen.
Summary: "The genetic trail an ancestor leaves behind is every bit as important as his paper trail. Though Y-chromosome and mitochondrial DNA testing, the modern genealogist has a powerful new tool for researching his roots" -- back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rice Book Press 2005
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.1 FITHeine, Steven J.
Summary: "Do you fear what might be lurking in your DNA? Well, now you can find out, and you most likely will. Scientists expect one billion people to have their genomes sequenced by 2025, and as the price drops it may even become a standard medical procedure. Yet cultural psychologist Steven J. Heine argues that the first thing we'll do upon receiving our DNA test results is to misinterpret them...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W . Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 572 HEIWingerson, Lois.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.935 WINAnders, Mason
Summary: Are your eyes brown? Blue? Green? Why are they the color that they are? Heredity takes a close look at the genes and traits passed down from mothers and fathers. Learn about dominant and recessive genes and how they determine unique characteristics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 576.5 ANDRidge, Yolanda
Summary: "We can change the world with genetic modification--but should we? CRISPR stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats. If it sounds complicated, it is--but it's also one of the most powerful ways we can shape the future. And it's poised to completely upend the way we think about science. Author Yolanda Ridge tackles this topic in a friendly and accessible tone, with two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 576.5 RIDMidthun, Joseph
Summary: "A graphic nonfiction volume that introduces how genes impact an organism's inherited traits, including variation, hybrids, mutations, and nature versus nurture"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, a Scott Fetzer Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 576.5 MIDSummary: "Every year, over a million babies are born worldwide with a hereditary disease; most are serious, and many are fatal. For most of the history of medicine, doctors could only treat symptoms. Now an elite cadre of pioneers, gene doctors, is starting to target root causes. Through intimate stories of families whose lives are being transformed, the film takes viewers to the frontlines of a medical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GENContreras, Jorge L.
Summary: "The gripping true story of a Supreme Court civil rights battle to prevent biotech companies from owning the very thing that makes us who we are-our DNA"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 346.7304 CONRaff, Jennifer
Summary: "From celebrated genetic anthropologist Jennifer Raff comes the untold story--and fascinating mystery--of how humans migrated to the Americas"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.5 RAFSummary: "A graphic nonfiction volume that introduces how genes impact an organism's inherited traits, including variation, hybrids, mutations, and nature versus nurture"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, a Scott Fetzer Company 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 576.5 TRACraig, Patricia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carnegie Institution] 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 575.2 CRATaylor-Butler, Christine
Summary: "Learn all about the history of genetics research, from how scientists began studying genes to how their discoveries affect our lives today."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 572 TAYAvise, John C.
Summary: How do you explain flaw in a world engineered by God? Avise extends this age-old question to the most basic aspect of humanity's physical evidence-- our genes-- and provides the evolutionary answers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 611.0181 AVIHäfner, Carla
Summary: "This book explains genetic theory, what genes are, why DNA plays an important role and what all these insights have to do with a curious monk. An exciting journey through the history of science, present-day genetic research and engineering and right through to the question of identity--because who would have thought how much of our personality is defined by our genes and how interesting genes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Eye Books 2024
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Summary: A heady overview of the emerging discipline of synthetic biology and the wonders it can produce, from new drugs and vaccines to biofuels and resurrected wooly mammoths. In this authoritative, sometimes awe-inspiring book, geneticist Church and veteran science writer Regis team up to explore how scientists are now altering the nature of living organisms by modifying their genomes, or genetic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 572.8 CHULynch, Ben
Summary: "After suffering for years with unexplainable health issues, Dr. Ben Lynch discovered the root cause--"dirty" genes. Genes can be "born dirty" or merely "act dirty" in response to your environment, diet, or lifestyle--causing lifelong, life-threatening, and chronic health problems, including cardiovascular disease, autoimmune disorders, anxiety, depression, digestive issues, obesity, cancer,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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Summary: "A groundbreaking book about how technological advances in genomics and the extraction of ancient DNA have profoundly changed our understanding of human prehistory while resolving many long-standing controversies. Massive technological innovations now allow scientists to extract and analyze ancient DNA as never before, and it has become clear--in part from David Reich's own contributions to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2018
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Summary: Examines the technology called CRISPR which allows for alteration of human DNA.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HUMHarden, Kathryn Paige
Summary: "A provocative and timely case for how the science of genetics can help create a more just and equal society. In recent years, scientists like Kathryn Paige Harden have shown that DNA makes us different, in our personalities and in our health-and in waysthat matter for educational and economic success in our current society. In The Genetic Lottery, Harden introduces readers to the latest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.5 HARMoalem, Sharon
Summary: "An argument that genetic females are stronger than males at all stages of life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020