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Blood Relations Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics
ISBN: PB: 9780226740034, ISBN: HB: 9780226739977, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones
Blood is messy, dangerous, and charged with meaning. By following it as it circulates through people and institutions, Jenny Bangham explores the intimate connections between the early infrastructures of blood transfusion and the development of human...
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£32,00
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£96,00
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Heredity under the Microscope Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome
ISBN: PB: 9780226685113, ISBN: HB: 9780226685083, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 36 halftones
By focusing on chromosomes, "Heredity under the Microscope" offers a new history of postwar human genetics. Today chromosomes are understood as macromolecular assemblies and are analyzed with a variety of molecular techniques. Yet for much of the twe...
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£30,00
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£90,00
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Mobilizing Mutations Human Genetics in the Age of Patient Advocacy
ISBN: HB: 9780226638096, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 3 tables
With every passing year, more and more people learn that they or their young or unborn children carries a genetic mutation. But what does this mean for the way we understand a person? Today, genetic mutations are being used to diagnose novel conditio...
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£30,00
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Gene From Genetics to Postgenomics
ISBN: PB: 9780226510002, ISBN: HB: 9780226276359, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Few concepts played a more important role in twentieth-century life sciences than that of the gene. Yet at this moment, the field of genetics is undergoing radical conceptual transformation, and some scientists are questioning the very usefulness of...
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£19,00
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£56,50
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Visions of Cell Biology Reflections Inspired by Cowdry's "General Cytology"
ISBN: PB: 9780226520513, ISBN: HB: 9780226520483, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones, 28 line drawings, 2 tables
Although modern cell biology is often considered to have arisen following World War II in tandem with certain technological and methodological advances – in particular, the electron microscope and cell fractionation – its origins actually date to the...
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£34,00
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£101,00
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Model Behavior Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders
ISBN: PB: 9780226546087, ISBN: HB: 9780226545929, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 3 line drawings, 1 table
Mice are used as model organisms across a wide range of fields in science today – but it is far from obvious how studying a mouse in a maze can help us understand human problems like alcoholism or anxiety. How do scientists convince funders, fellow s...
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£24,00
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£67,50
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Sex Itself The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome
ISBN: PB: 9780226325613, ISBN: HB: 9780226084688, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 11 line drawings
Human genomes are 99. 9 percent identical – with one prominent exception. Instead of a matching pair of X chromosomes, men carry a single X, coupled with a tiny chromosome called the Y. Tracking the emergence of a new and distinctive way of thinking...
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£20,50
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£36,00
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Lock and Key of Medicine Monoclonal Antibodies and the Transformation of Healthcare
ISBN: HB: 9780300167733, Yale University Press, August 2015
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 37 black&white illus.
This book is the first to tell the extraordinary yet unheralded history of monoclonal antibodies, or Mabs. Though unfamiliar to most nonscientists, these microscopic protein molecules are everywhere, quietly shaping our lives and healthcare. They hav...
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Saving Babies? The Consequences of Newborn Genetic Screening
ISBN: PB: 9780226273617, ISBN: HB: 9780226924977, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
320 pp., 25x15 cm, 1 table, 3 line illus.
It has been close to six decades since Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNA and more than ten years since the human genome was decoded. Today, through the collection and analysis of a small blood sample, every baby born in the United Stat...
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£13,50
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£28,00
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Life's Blueprint The Science and Art of Embryo Creation
ISBN: HB: 9780300196634, Yale University Press, October 2014
192 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 71 colour illus.
In the span of just three decades, scientific understanding of the formation of embryos has undergone a major revolution. The implications of these new research findings have an immediate bearing on human health and future therapies, yet most nonscie...
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£25,00
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