Genetic Crossroads
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Genetic Crossroads
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Author : Elise K. Burton
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2021-01-26
Genetic Crossroads written by Elise K. Burton and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-26 with History categories.
The Middle East plays a major role in the history of genetic science. Early in the twentieth century, technological breakthroughs in human genetics coincided with the birth of modern Middle Eastern nation-states, who proclaimed that the region's ancient history—as a cradle of civilizations and crossroads of humankind—was preserved in the bones and blood of their citizens. Using letters and publications from the 1920s to the present, Elise K. Burton follows the field expeditions and hospital surveys that scrutinized the bodies of tribal nomads and religious minorities. These studies, geneticists claim, not only detect the living descendants of biblical civilizations but also reveal the deeper past of human evolution. Genetic Crossroads is an unprecedented history of human genetics in the Middle East, from its roots in colonial anthropology and medicine to recent genome sequencing projects. It illuminates how scientists from Turkey to Yemen, Egypt to Iran, transformed genetic data into territorial claims and national origin myths. Burton shows why such nationalist appropriations of genetics are not local or temporary aberrations, but rather the enduring foundations of international scientific interest in Middle Eastern populations to this day.
Clinical Ethics At The Crossroads Of Genetic And Reproductive Technologies
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Author : Sorin Hostiuc
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 2023-08-14
Clinical Ethics At The Crossroads Of Genetic And Reproductive Technologies written by Sorin Hostiuc and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-14 with Science categories.
The Human Genome Project has triggered a technological revolution that has influenced nearly every field of medicine, including reproductive medicine, obstetrics, gynecology, andrology, prenatal genetic testing, and gene therapy. This second edition of Clinical Ethics at the Crossroads of Genetic and Reproductive Technologies offers a thorough, timely discussion of ethical issues raised by the latest genetic and genomic technologies applied in human reproductive and prenatal medicine, providing practical recommendations, guidelines, and algorithms to support ethical clinical practice. Here, international experts consider the ethics of technologies from preconception carrier screening to genetic engineering, CRISPR gene editing, mitochondrial gene replacement therapy, sex selection, predictive testing, secondary findings, embryo reduction, and the moral status of the embryo, genetic enhancement, and the sharing of genetic data. Throughout the book, contributors adopt a global, holistic perspective on applied challenges and the moral questions around the implementation of genetic reproductive technologies. The book is an ideal resource for practitioners, regulators, lawmakers, clinical researchers, genetic counselors, and graduate and medical students.This fully updated second edition examines new developments in the field, tackling ethical aspects of organoid development, recent advances in pharmacogenomics, direct-to-consumer genetic testing, and genetic engineering. • Provides practical analysis of the ethical issues raised by cutting-edge techniques and recent advances in prenatal and reproductive geneticsContains contributions from leading bioethicists and clinicians who offer a global, holistic perspective on applied challenges and moral questions relating to genetic and genomic reproductive technology • Discusses preconception carrier screening, genetic engineering, and the use of CRISPR gene editing, mitochondrial gene replacement therapy, and ethical issues, among others • Considers ethical aspects of recent advances and new technologies in the field, from organoid development to pharmacogenomics and direct-to-consumer genetic testing
Genetics And Evolution Of Infectious Diseases
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Author : Michel Tibayrenc
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 2010-12-17
Genetics And Evolution Of Infectious Diseases written by Michel Tibayrenc and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-17 with Medical categories.
This multidisciplinary book is at the crossroads between two major scientific fields of the 21st century: evolutionary biology and infectious diseases. The genomic revolution has upset modern biology and has revolutionized our approach to ancient disciplines such as evolutionary studies. In particular, this revolution is profoundly changing our view on genetically driven human phenotypic diversity, and this is especially true in disease genetic susceptibility. Infectious diseases are indisputably the major challenge of medicine. When looking globally, they are the number one killer of humans and therefore the main selective pressure exerted on our species. Even in industrial countries, infectious diseases are now far less under control than 20 years ago. The first part of this book covers the main features and applications of modern technologies in the study of infectious diseases. The second part provides detailed information on a number of the key infectious diseases such as malaria, SARS, avian flu, HIV, tuberculosis, nosocomial infections and a few other pathogens that will be taken as examples to illustrate the power of modern technologies and the value of evolutionary approaches. Takes an integrated approach to infectious diseases Includes contributions from leading authorities Provides the latest developments in the field
Developmental Systems
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Author : Stefan Wegrzyn
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Developmental Systems written by Stefan Wegrzyn and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Science categories.
Many facts were at the origin of the present monograph. The ftrst is the beauty of maple leaves in Quebec forests in Fall. It raised the question: how does nature create and reproduce such beautiful patterns? The second was the reading of A. Lindenmayer's works on L systems. Finally came the discovery of "the secrets of DNA" together with many stimulating ex changes with biologists. Looking at such facts from the viewpoint of recursive numerical systems led to devise a simple model based on six elementary operations organized in a generating word, the analog of the program of a computer and of the genetic code of DNA in the cells of a living organism. It turned out that such a model, despite its simplicity, can account for a great number of properties of living organisms, e.g. their hierarchical structure, their ability to regenerate after a trauma, the possibility of cloning, their sensitivity to mutation, their growth, decay and reproduction. The model lends itself to analysis: the knowledge of the generating word makes it possible to predict the structure of the successive developmental stages of the system; and to synthesis: a speciftc type of structure can be obtained by systematically constructing a generating word that produces it. In fact the model here proposed is coherent with the fundamental assumptions of cellular biology and in particular with recent discoveries concerning DNA, which in the light of our model behaves like a very elaborate generating word.
Proceedings Of The International Speaker S Forum Canadian Farm Animal Genetic Resources At The Crossroads Crisis Or Opportunity
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Author : Ho, S. K
language : en
Publisher: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Research Branch
Release Date : 1997
Proceedings Of The International Speaker S Forum Canadian Farm Animal Genetic Resources At The Crossroads Crisis Or Opportunity written by Ho, S. K and has been published by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Research Branch this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Livestock categories.
Above The Gene Beyond Biology
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Author : Jan Baedke
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2018-07-20
Above The Gene Beyond Biology written by Jan Baedke and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-20 with Science categories.
Epigenetics is currently one of the fastest-growing fields in the sciences. Epigenetic information not only controls DNA expression but links genetic factors with the environmental experiences that influence the traits and characteristics of an individual. What we eat, where we work, and how we live affects not only the activity of our genes but that of our offspring as well. This discovery has imposed a revolutionary theoretical shift on modern biology, especially on evolutionary theory. It has helped to uncover the developmental processes leading to cancer, obesity, schizophrenia, alcoholism, and aging, and to facilitate associated medial applications such as stem cell therapy and cloning. Above the Gene, Beyond Biology explores how biologists in this booming field investigate and explain living systems. Jan Baedke offers the first comprehensive philosophical discussion of epigenetic concepts, explanations, and methodologies so that we can better understand this “epigenetic turn” in the life sciences from a philosophical perspective.
Genetic Engineering
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Author : Röbbe Wünschiers
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-07-05
Genetic Engineering written by Röbbe Wünschiers and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-05 with Science categories.
This essential should serve as an introduction for a contemporary public discussion on genetic engineering. Genetic engineering affects us all in many areas and we must dare to think more colorful and further. In fact, the complete genetic material of viruses and bacteria can already be chemically produced and "brought to life". With genetic surgery, medicine is at a crossroads: do we want to treat hereditary diseases or "repair" them genetically? And the analysis of thousands of human genetic material reveals information that is related to complex diseases, but also to characteristics such as intelligence. How should we use this knowledge? The question is hardly whether we want genetic engineering, but rather how we use it. This Springer essential is a translation of the original German 1st edition essentials, Gentechnik by Röbbe Wünschiers, published by The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2019. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.
Brown Skins White Coats
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Author : Projit Bihari Mukharji
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2023-02-17
Brown Skins White Coats written by Projit Bihari Mukharji and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-17 with Science categories.
A unique narrative structure brings the history of race science in mid-twentieth-century India to vivid life. There has been a recent explosion in studies of race science in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, but most have focused either on Europe or on North America and Australia. In this stirring history, Projit Bihari Mukharji illustrates how India appropriated and repurposed race science to its own ends and argues that these appropriations need to be understood within the national and regional contexts of postcolonial nation-making—not merely as footnotes to a Western history of “normal science.” The book comprises seven factual chapters operating at distinct levels—conceptual, practical, and cosmological—and eight fictive interchapters, a series of epistolary exchanges between the Bengali author Hemendrakumar Ray (1888–1963) and the protagonist of his dystopian science fiction novel about race, race science, racial improvement, and dehumanization. In this way, Mukharji fills out the historical moment in which the factual narrative unfolded, vividly revealing its moral, affective, political, and intellectual fissures.
Biology Digest
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996-03
Biology Digest written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-03 with Biology categories.
Crossing Over
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Author : Frank Timmermans
language : en
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Release Date : 2005
Crossing Over written by Frank Timmermans and has been published by University of Calgary Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Science categories.
'Crossing Over' promotes reflection on the socio-ethical, and policy and regulatory aspects of genomics and biotechnology. This collection of essays illuminates the common themes surrounding this hotly contested issue and considers the politics, public perception, ethics, media representations and future possibilities of genomics.