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Pandora S Dna
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Release Date : 2014-10-01
Pandora S Dna written by and has been published by Chicago Review Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Would you cut out your healthy breasts and ovaries if you thought it might save your life? That's not a theoretical question for journalist Lizzie Stark's relatives, who grapple with the horrific legacy of cancer built into the family DNA, a BRCA mutation that has robbed most of her female relatives of breasts, ovaries, peace of mind, or life itself. In Pandora's DNA, Stark uses her family's experience to frame a larger story about the so-called breast cancer genes, exploring the morass of legal quandaries, scientific developments, medical breakthroughs, and ethical concerns that surround the BRCA mutations, from the troubling history of prophylactic surgery and the storied origins of the boob job to the landmark lawsuit against Myriad Genetics, which held patents on the BRCA genes every human carries in their body until the Supreme Court overturned them in 2013. Although a genetic test for cancer risk may sound like the height of scientific development, the treatment remains crude and barbaric. Through her own experience, Stark shows what it's like to live in a brave new world where gazing into a crystal ball of genetics has many unintended consequences.
Pandora S Dna
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Author : Lizzie Stark
language : en
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Release Date : 2014-10-01
Pandora S Dna written by Lizzie Stark and has been published by Chicago Review Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
2015 ALA Notable Book Would you cut out your healthy breasts and ovaries if you thought it might save your life? That's not a theoretical question for journalist Lizzie Stark's relatives, who grapple with the horrific legacy of cancer built into the family DNA, a BRCA mutation that has robbed most of her female relatives of breasts, ovaries, peace of mind, or life itself. In Pandora's DNA, Stark uses her family's experience to frame a larger story about the so-called breast cancer genes, exploring the morass of legal quandaries, scientific developments, medical breakthroughs, and ethical concerns that surround the BRCA mutations, from the troubling history of prophylactic surgery and the storied origins of the boob job to the landmark lawsuit against Myriad Genetics, which held patents on the BRCA genes every human carries in their body until the Supreme Court overturned them in 2013. Although a genetic test for cancer risk may sound like the height of scientific development, the treatment remains crude and barbaric. Through her own experience, Stark shows what it's like to live in a brave new world where gazing into a crystal ball of genetics has many unintended consequences.
Pandora S Sisters
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Author : Michael Stephen Fuchs
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2010-11-30
Pandora S Sisters written by Michael Stephen Fuchs and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-30 with Fiction categories.
'You want to know who gave you your immortal soul? You want a personal relationship with God? Well, we found God. We're all up in God. We've got God's private number. And so do you: imprinted a hundred trillion times – once in every living cell in your big dripping corpus.' So says a woman with a pole-axe pressed to her neck, and the solution to the entire mystery of human existence clutched between her palms. Two weeks earlier, she was just your average British expat with a PhD, working in Silicon Valley as an artificial intelligence designer for ultra-violent video games, spending the evenings hanging out with her pet chimp – and wondering how something as weird as human consciousness could have evolved through mere Darwinian selection. But when a mysterious and disconcertingly attractive behavioural geneticist, and a hotshot cryptologist with strange religious affiliations, stroll into her life, she begins looking for answers in the backwaters of the human genome – the 97% written off by scientists as ;junk DNA;. And soon after, when men in very strange hats come looking for her hard drive, shooting first and never really asking any questions, she finds herself on the run – pursued by multiple squads of heavily-armed religious zealots, the Feds, and worse. All seek to obtain, or to suppress forever, the key to the revelatory stretch of DNA known as The Pandora Sequence. The outcome of their race to control this explosive secret will forever alter how humanity regards itself - that is, if anyone lives long enough to tell the tale.
Pandora S Genes
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Author : Kathryn Lance
language : en
Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
Release Date : 1985
Pandora S Genes written by Kathryn Lance and has been published by Warner Books (NY) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Fiction categories.
Science fiction-roman. The world of the future is teetering on the brink of decay. There is no fuel for the rusting machines, and mutated DNA is wreaking havoc on the gene pool. Who will save humanity from itself?
Pandora S Picnic Basket The Potential And Hazards Of Genetically Modified Foods
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Author : Alan McHughen
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, UK
Release Date : 2000-06-22
Pandora S Picnic Basket The Potential And Hazards Of Genetically Modified Foods written by Alan McHughen and has been published by Oxford University Press, UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-06-22 with Science categories.
The first book to look at all the issues involved in GM (genetically modified food) technology in a clear and dispassionate way. Alan McHughen surveys the technology that makes GM food possible, assesses the risk of health and environmental dangers and the regulatory and labelling processes in force to protect the consumer. Question and answer boxes and case histories, and the author's easy writing style make this an essential purchase for all those interested in the debate. - ;Are you concerned about fish genes in tomatoes? Worried that brazil nut genes in soybeans can result in potentially lethal allergic reactions? That rapeseed plants bred to be resistant to herbicides could become uncontrollable superweeds? You are not alone. The issue of genetically modified foods has fast become one of the most debated of recent years, with scientists and companies seeking to develop the technology on one side, and consumer groups and environmentalists on the other. However, in spite of the great heat generated by the debate, there is very little real information on the subject, either about the technologies in use or about the regulatory processes established to approve the processes and the products. This book sets out to explain, in clear and direct language, the technologies underlying so-called genetically modified food, and compares them with other "natural" methods of plant breeding and production. The author then looks at the safeguards in place from regulators around the world and asks whether these are sufficient. The question of labelling, held by some to be an obvious way out for concerned consumers, is examined, and the honesty and usefulness of some of these labels addressed. The book then looks at issues of real concern, particularly environmental issues, and ways in which a consumer can seek to avoid GMOs if they so choose. In each chapter, key topics are addressed through question and answer boxes. Real case histories illustrate the development and regulation of GMOs, and by the end of the book the reader will be able to make an informed choice about whether to support or challenge this technology, the products of which are increasingly pervasive. -
Modern Biotechnology
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Author : J. Tramper
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-04-27
Modern Biotechnology written by J. Tramper and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-27 with Science categories.
According to Greek mythology Pandora was sent down to earth upon the orders of Zeus. She was given a mysterious box which she was not allowed to open. However, Pandora was very curious and when she arrived on earth she couldn't help taking a peek inside the box. She saw that it was filled with gifts and calamities and to her astonishment they all escaped and spread throughout humanity, with all the dire consequences thereof. Only hope was left at the bottom. Figuratively speaking, Pandora's box today represents a source of much suffering. Is modern biotechnology just such a Pandora's box, as the anti-biotechnology lobby would have us believe? Or can we selectively release the gifts and turn this new Pandora's box into a Panacea? Modern biotechnology makes use of the recombinant DNA technology to genetically modify microorganisms, plants and animals in order to make them more suitable for all kinds of applications, such as cultivating food crops, baking bread, making wine, antibiotics and hormones, xenotransplantation, and gene- and stem cell therapy. The book also particularly addresses the controversial aspects of these applications.
Pandora S Seed
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Author : Spencer Wells
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-06-08
Pandora S Seed written by Spencer Wells and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-08 with Science categories.
Ten thousand years ago, our species made a radical shift in its way of life: We became farmers rather than hunter-gatherers. Although this decision propelled us into the modern world, renowned geneticist and anthropologist Spencer Wells demonstrates that such a dramatic change in lifestyle had a downside that we’re only now beginning to recognize. Growing grain crops ultimately made humans more sedentary and unhealthy and made the planet more crowded. The expanding population and the need to apportion limited resources created hierarchies and inequalities. Freedom of movement was replaced by a pressure to work that is the forebear of the anxiety millions feel today. Spencer Wells offers a hopeful prescription for altering a life to which we were always ill-suited. Pandora’s Seed is an eye-opening book for anyone fascinated by the past and concerned about the future.
Pandora S Children
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Author : Kathryn Lance
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-11-25
Pandora S Children written by Kathryn Lance and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-25 with categories.
In the not-so distant future, after a DNA disaster has destroyed all modern technology, two opposing forces battle for supremacy: the fanatic, anti-science religious sect the Traders, and those who follow the Principal, powerful leader of a fledgling civilization.Now Evvy, the beautiful and brilliant young scientist, has been kidnapped on the morning of her marriage to The Principal. The Principal is grievously wounded in the same attack, so Zach, the poet-warrior who also loves Evvy, must journey through a danger-strewn land to save her, hoping to outwit the secret traitor bent on destroying their world.Reader reviews:"A fabulous read...." "Entirely believable...." "I loved this book...." "Interesting characters and a fascinating storyline.""Stands above the crowd!" --LOCUS on Pandora's Genes
Pandora S Promise
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Author : Kathryn Lance
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-08-12
Pandora S Promise written by Kathryn Lance and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-12 with categories.
Pandora's Promise, the long-awaited conclusion to the trilogy that began with the award-winning novel Pandora's Genes, takes place in a world 100 years after a recombinant-DNA disaster destroyed all oil-based technology and caused widespread mutations. Due to an inherited genetic disease, the human race seems doomed to extinction. In this dangerous setting, Evvy, the brilliant young scientist trying to save humanity, sets out on a perilous quest, while Zach, the poet-warrior and Evvy's self-exiled soul mate, encounters deadly challenges and surprising allies among disparate human and animal societies, including empathic elephants who roam the Great Plains. Unknowingly, both Zach and Evvy follow clues to the mysterious Eye-a source of hope? Of oblivion? Or merely a myth? Will time run out before they find the Eye--and each other?
Pandora S Baby
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Author : Robin Marantz Henig
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Pandora S Baby written by Robin Marantz Henig and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Fertilization in vitro, Human categories.
This is the highly acclaimed book by Robin Marantz Henig about the early days of in vitrofertilization (IVF) and the ethical and legal battles waged in the 1970s, as well as the scientific advances that eventually changed the public perception of 'test tube babies'. Published in paperback for the first time, this timely and provocative book brilliantly presents the scientific and ethical dilemmas in the ongoing debate over what it means to be human in a technological age. About the author:Robin Marantz Henig is the author of eight books. Her previous book The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel,was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She writes about science and medicine for the New York Times Magazine,where she is a contributing writer, as well as for publications such as Scientific American,Smithsonian,and The Washington Post. Robin Henig garnered two prestigious awards in 2006: the Science in Society Award, the highest honor in science journalism, awarded by the National Association of Science Writers, and The Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize awarded by The History of Science Society for the best book in the history of science for general readers.