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Genetics

In Search of Cell History The Evolution of Life's Building Blocks

Harold Franklin M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226174280, ISBN: HB: 9780226174143, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones, 12 line drawings

The origin of cells remains one of the most fundamental problems in biology, one that over the past two decades has spawned a large body of research and debate. With "In Search of Cell History", Franklin M. Harold offers a comprehensive, impartial ta...

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Genetics

General

Misbehaving Science Controversy and the Development of Behavior Genetics

Panofsky Aaron

ISBN: PB: 9780226058450, ISBN: HB: 9780226058313, University of Chicago Press, June 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 6 tables

Behavior genetics has always been a breeding ground for controversies. From the "criminal chromosome" to the "gay gene", claims about the influence of genes like these have led to often vitriolic national debates about race, class, and inequality. Ma...

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Genetics

Technology & Engineering

Genentech The Beginnings of Biotech

Smith Hughes Sally

ISBN: PB: 9780226045511, ISBN: HB: 9780226359182, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, April 2013
232 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 halftones

In the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of Wall Street, raising over $38 million in its initial public stock offering. Lacking marketed products or substantial profit,...

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Genetics

Genomes and What to Make of Them

Barnes Barry, Dupre John

ISBN: PB: 9780226054568, ISBN: HB: 9780226172958, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
288 pp., 23x15 cm

The announcement in 2003 that the Human Genome Project had completed its map of the entire human genome was heralded as a stunning scientific breakthrough: our first full picture of the basic building blocks of human life. Since then, boasts about th...

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Genetics

Philosophy

Creating a Physical Biology The Three-Man Paper and Early Molecular Biology

Sloan Phillip R., Fogel Brandon

ISBN: PB: 9780226767833, ISBN: HB: 9780226767826, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 tables, 9 halftones, 11 line illus.

In 1935 geneticist Nikolai Timofeeff-Ressovsky, radiation physicist Karl G. Zimmer, and quantum physicist Max Delbruck published "On the Nature of Gene Mutation and Gene Structure", known subsequently as the "Three-Man Paper". This seminal paper adva...

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Evolution

Genetics

Wetware A Computer in Every Living Cell

Bray Dennis

ISBN: PB: 9780300167849, Yale University Press, February 2011
280 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.

How does a single-cell creature, such as an amoeba, lead such a sophisticated life? How does it hunt living prey, respond to lights, sounds, and smells, and display complex sequences of movements without the benefit of a nervous system? This book off...

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Genetics

Philosophy

Contested Reproduction Genetic Technologies, Religion, and Public Debate

Evans John H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226222653, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables, 3 line illus.

Scientific breakthroughs have led us to a point where soon we will be able to make specific choices about the genetic makeup of our offspring. In fact, this reality has arrived – and it is only a matter of time before the technology becomes widesprea...

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Genetics

Woman Who Walked into the Sea Huntington's and the Making of a Genetic Disease

Wexler Alice

ISBN: PB: 9780300158618, Yale University Press, January 2010
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This title presents a groundbreaking medical and social history of a devastating hereditary neurological disorder once demonized as "the witchcraft disease". When Phebe Hedges, a woman in East Hampton, New York, walked into the sea in 1806, she made...

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