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2019., Harvard University Press Call No: 576.5 B358a Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: With the advent of CRISPR gene-editing technology, designer babies have become a reality. Françoise Baylis insists that scientists alone cannot decide the terms of this new era in human evolution. Members of the public, with diverse interests and perspectives, must have a role in determining our future as a species.--
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c2005., Thunder's Mouth Press ; Distributed by Publishers Group West Call No: 155.7 B658b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2021., Simon & Schuster Call No: Bio D726i Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how the pioneering scientist Jennifer Doudna, along with her colleagues and rivals, launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and enhance our children"--
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c2006., National Geographic Call No: 599.93 W456d Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch Click here to view More... Summary Note: Science tells us we're all related--one vast family sharing a common ancestor who lived in Africa 60,000 years ago. But countless questions remain about our great journey from the birthplace of Homo sapiens. How and when did we end up where we are? Why do we display such a wide range of colors and features? The fossil record offers some answers, but new research reveals many more, since our DNA carries a chronicle of our species and its migrations. This book translates complicated concepts into accessible language and explains how each individual's DNA contributes another piece to the puzzle. It takes readers inside the Genographic Project, the landmark study now assembling the world's largest collection of DNA samples and employing the latest in testing technology and computer analysis to examine hundreds of thousands of genetic profiles from all over the globe, showing how universal our human heritage really is.--From publisher description.
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2003., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: 576.5 W339d Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch
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2020., Little, Brown and company Call No: MYS Fic Con Edition: First edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Jack McEvoy Volume: 3Summary Note: "Veteran reporter Jack McEvoy has taken down killers before, but when a woman he had a one-night stand with is murdered in a particularly brutal way, McEvoy realizes he might be facing a criminal mind unlike any he's ever encountered. McEvoy investigates--against the warnings of the police and his own editor--and makes a shocking discovery that connects the crime to other mysterious deaths across the country. But his inquiry hits a snag when he himself becomes a suspect. As he races to clear his name, McEvoy's findings point to a serial killer working under the radar of law enforcement for years, and using personal data shared by the victims themselves to select and hunt his targets"--
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2016., Scribner Call No: 616.042 M941g Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Weaving science, social history, and personal narrative to tell us the story of one of the most important conceptual breakthroughs of modern times, author Siddhartha Mukherjee animates the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices. Throughout the narrative, the story of Mukherjee's own family, with its tragic and bewildering history of mental illness, cuts like a bright, red line, reminding us of the many questions that hang over our ability to translate the science of genetics from the laboratory to the real world. He describes the centuries of research and experimentation from Aristotle and Pythagoras to Mendel and Darwin, from Boveri and Thomas Morgan to Crick, Watson and Rosa Franklin, all the way through the revolutionary twenty-first century innovators who mapped the human genome.
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2009., Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: Fic Pow Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When Chicagoan Russell Stone finds himself teaching a Creative Nonfiction class, he encounters a young Algerian woman with a disturbingly luminous presence. Thassadit Amzwar's blissful exuberance both entrances and puzzles the melancholic Russell. How can this refugee from perpetual terror be so happy? Won't someone so open and alive come to serious harm? Wondering how to protect her, Russell researches her war-torn country and skims through popular happiness manuals. Might her condition be hyperthymia? Hypomania? Russell's amateur inquiries lead him to college counselor Candace Weld, who also falls under Thassa's spell. Dubbed Miss Generosity by her classmates, Thassa's joyful personality comes to the attention of the notorious geneticist and advocate for genomic enhancement, Thomas Kurton, whose research leads him to announce the genotype for happiness.
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c1993., Reader's Digest Call No: 616.042 G327 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: American Medical Association home medical library
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[1973], Basic Books Call No: 573.2 D6355g Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The John Dewey Society lectureship series Volume: no. 13.
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By Ridley, Matt2000., Perennial Call No: 573.21 R546g Edition: 1st Perennial ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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[1969], Prentice-Hall Call No: 575.1 M1596h Edition: 2d ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Prentice-Hall foundations of modern genetics series
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By Genova, Lisac2015., Adult, Gallery Books Call No: Fic Gen Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Joe O'Brien is a forty-four-year-old police officer from the Irish Catholic neighborhood of Charlestown, Massachusetts. A devoted husband, proud father of four children in their twenties, and respected officer, Joe begins experiencing bouts of disorganized thinking, uncharacteristic temper outbursts, and strange, involuntary movements. He initially attributes these episodes to the stress of his job, but as these symptoms worsen, he agrees to see a neurologist and is handed a diagnosis that will change his and his family's lives forever: Huntington's Disease. Huntington's is a lethal neurodegenerative disease with no treatment and no cure. Each of Joe's four children has a 50 percent chance of inheriting their father's disease, and a simple blood test can reveal their genetic fate. While watching her potential future in her father's escalating symptoms, twenty-one-year-old daughter Katie struggles with the questions this test imposes on her young adult life. Does she want to know? What if she's gene positive? Can she live with the constant anxiety of not knowing? As Joe's symptoms worsen and he's eventually stripped of his badge and more, Joe struggles to maintain hope and a sense of purpose, while Katie and her siblings must find the courage to either live a life "at risk" or learn their fate.
