Curiosity Guides The Human Genome

Author : John Quackenbush
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781936140152

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Curiosity Guides: The Human Genome by John Quackenbush Pdf

The DNA sequence that comprises the human genome--the genetic blueprint found in each of our cells--is undoubtedly the greatest code ever to be broken. Completed at the dawn of a new millennium, the feat electrified both the scientific community and the general public with its tantalizing promise of new and better treatments for countless diseases, including Alzheimer's, cancer, diabetes, and Parkinson's. Yet what is arguably the most important discovery of our time has also opened a Pandora's box of questions about who we are as humans and how the unique information stored in our genomes can and might be used, making it all the more important for everyone to understand the new science of genomics. In the CURIOSITY GUIDE TO THE HUMAN GENOME, Dr. John Quackenbush, a renowned scientist and professor, conducts a fascinating tour of the history and science behind the Human Genome Project and the technologies that are revolutionizing the practice of medicine today. With a clear and engaging narrative style, he demystifies the fundamental principles of genetics and molecular biology, including the astounding ways in which genes function, alone or together with other genes and the environment, to either sustain life or trigger disease. In addition, Dr. Quackenbush goes beyond medicine to examine how DNA-sequencing technology is changing how we think of ourselves as a species by providing new insights about our earliest ancestors and reconfirming our inextricable link to all life on earth. Finally, he explores the legal and ethical questions surrounding such controversial topics as stem cell research, prenatal testing, forensics, and cloning, making this volume of the Curiosity Guides series an indispensable resource for navigating our brave new genomic world.

Author : John Quackenbush
Publisher : Charlesbridge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781607343561

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Curiosity Guides: The Human Genome by John Quackenbush Pdf

The DNA sequence that comprises the human genome--the genetic blueprint found in each of our cells--is undoubtedly the greatest code ever to be broken. Completed at the dawn of a new millennium, the feat electrified both the scientific community and the general public with its tantalizing promise of new and better treatments for countless diseases, including Alzheimer's, cancer, diabetes, and Parkinson's. Yet what is arguably the most important discovery of our time has also opened a Pandora's box of questions about who we are as humans and how the unique information stored in our genomes can and might be used, making it all the more important for everyone to understand the new science of genomics. In the CURIOSITY GUIDE TO THE HUMAN GENOME, Dr. John Quackenbush, a renowned scientist and professor, conducts a fascinating tour of the history and science behind the Human Genome Project and the technologies that are revolutionizing the practice of medicine today. With a clear and engaging narrative style, he demystifies the fundamental principles of genetics and molecular biology, including the astounding ways in which genes function, alone or together with other genes and the environment, to either sustain life or trigger disease. In addition, Dr. Quackenbush goes beyond medicine to examine how DNA-sequencing technology is changing how we think of ourselves as a species by providing new insights about our earliest ancestors and reconfirming our inextricable link to all life on earth. Finally, he explores the legal and ethical questions surrounding such controversial topics as stem cell research, prenatal testing, forensics, and cloning, making this volume of the Curiosity Guides series an indispensable resource for navigating our brave new genomic world.

Author : John Quackenbush
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1031966848

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The Human Genome by John Quackenbush Pdf

The DNA sequence that comprises the human genome - the genetic blueprint found in each of our cells - is undoubtedly the greatest code ever to be broken. Completed at the dawn of a new milennium, the feat electified both the scientific community and the general public with its tantalizing promise of new and better treatments for countless diseases, includein Alzheimer's, cancer, diabetes, and Parkinson's.

Author : Susan L. Speaker,M. Susan Lindee,Elizabeth Hanson
Publisher : Chemical Heritage Foundation
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Science
ISBN : 0941901106

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A Guide to the Human Genome Project by Susan L. Speaker,M. Susan Lindee,Elizabeth Hanson Pdf

This simple, concise introduction to the HGP for the general reader explores the origins of the genome project and reactions in the scientific community; important technologies and techniques; institutions connected with the HGP, including designated genome centers, important suppliers of resources, and corporations; systems of communication; and ethical, legal, and social issues. A publication of the Biomolecular Sciences Initiative of CHF's Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Human genome
ISBN : OCLC:900841526

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Human Genome by Anonim Pdf

Author : Eugene Rosenberg
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128125687

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It's in Your DNA by Eugene Rosenberg Pdf

It's in Your DNA: From Discovery to Structure, Function and Role in Evolution, Cancer and Aging describes, in a clear, approachable manner, the progression of the experiments that eventually led to our current understanding of DNA. This fascinating work tells the whole story from the discovery of DNA and its structure, how it replicates, codes for proteins, and our current ability to analyze and manipulate it in genetic engineering to begin to understand the central role of DNA in evolution, cancer, and aging. While telling the scientific story of DNA, this captivating treatise is further enhanced by brief sketches of the colorful lives and personalities of the key scientists and pioneers of DNA research. Major discoveries by Meischer, Darwin, and Mendel and their impacts are discussed, including the merging of the disciplines of genetics, evolutionary biology, and nucleic acid biochemistry, giving rise to molecular genetics. After tracing development of the gene concept, critical experiments are described and a new biological paradigm, the hologenome concept of evolution, is introduced and described. The final two chapters of the work focus on DNA as it relates to cancer and gerontology. This book provides readers with much-needed knowledge to help advance their understanding of the subject and stimulate further research. It will appeal to researchers, students, and others with diverse backgrounds within or beyond the life sciences, including those in biochemistry, genetics/molecular genetics, evolutionary biology, epidemiology, oncology, gerontology, cell biology, microbiology, and anyone interested in these mechanisms in life. Highlights the importance of DNA research to science and medicine Explains in a simple but scientifically correct manner the key experiments and concepts that led to the current knowledge of what DNA is, how it works, and the increasing impact it has on our lives Emphasizes the observations and reasoning behind each novel idea and the critical experiments that were performed to test them

Author : Rob DeSalle,Susan L. Perkins
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Human body
ISBN : 9780300208405

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Welcome to the Microbiome by Rob DeSalle,Susan L. Perkins Pdf

Inspired by an exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, explores microbes and their implications for modern science and medicine.

Author : Folkersen Lasse
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789813273276

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Understand Your Dna: A Guide by Folkersen Lasse Pdf

Are you considering to test your own DNA? Do you want to learn more about your health and ancestry? Understand your DNA — A Guide is about what you can use genetics for. For a few hundred dollars, you can now scan your own genes. Millions of people all over the world have already done so. Everyone wants to see what they can get to know about themselves, and the market growing rapidly. But what does it require from you? And what can you really use a DNA test for? Understand your DNA — A Guide helps you put the plots and charts of consumer genetics into perspective and enables you to figure out what's up and down in the media headlines. The book is also a key input for today's debate about what we as a society can and want to do with medical genetics. Genetics will play a growing role in the future. Understand your DNA — A Guide is an easy-to-read and necessary guide to that future. The book is provided with a foreword by Professor Sham Pak-Chung of Hong Kong University.While there are many books about genetics, they typically take the perspective of a scientist wanting to understand the molecular levels. At the same time, direct-to-consumer genetics is a booming market, with millions of people already tested. Very little has been published that will guide them for real, because the need here is more focused on medical and practical understanding, than focussed on molecules.This book therefore aims to hit that vacant spot in the market. It's a walk-through of all concepts that are necessary to understand in your own analysis. Meanwhile, it is also limited in scope to only those concepts — thus distinguishing it from broader works.The book is appropriate for the readerships in modern multi-ethnic metropolises because it mixes European and Asian examples, both from the collaboration between the author from Europe and the foreword-writer, Prof. Pak Sham of Hong Kong University. But also, because many of the examples in the book concerns differences and similarities between Asian and European ethnicities, something the author believes is a trend in time.

Author : Kevin Davies
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0801871409

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Cracking the Genome by Kevin Davies Pdf

This newly updated edition sheds light on the secrets of the sequence, highlighting the myriad ways in which genomics will impact human health for generations to come.

Author : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Publisher : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781593398514

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Britannica Guide to Genetics by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. Pdf

The Britannica Guide to Genetics is the ideal companion for students or general popular science readers who wish to know the facts behind the latest research and discoveries. After the Introduction from bestselling science writer and geneticist Steve Jones the book covers the entire history of genetics from Gregor Mendel’s first experiments with peas at the end of the nineteenth century to the announcement of the Human Genome Project in 1998. Throughout the twentieth century new discoveries about the qualities of our genes have been heralded as essential leaps of progress in modern science forcing us to ask how much do our genes determine our personalities? What makes us different from other species? But as we enter the twenty-first century and we have begun to manipulate genes and the genome the questions have changed.

Author : Rob DeSalle,Michael Yudell,American Museum of Natural History
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004-09-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 0471453315

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Welcome to the Genome by Rob DeSalle,Michael Yudell,American Museum of Natural History Pdf

A thrilling "user's guide" to the genomics era Welcome to the genome, the miraculous blueprint of your DNA, coiled tight as a spring in the nucleus of each cell of your body. If unwound, the DNA from just one cell, while only a molecule in width, would stretch six feet in length! The information stored in its double helix structure - three billion bits worth - could fill 142 Manhattan phone books. Yet far more amazing than these facts is the impact the study of genomics has had on so many areas of our lives. From the promise of personalized medicine and gene therapy to disputes over the safety of genetically modified (GM) foods, there is little doubt we are in the midst of the Genomic Revolution. Now how do we make sense of it all? Welcome to the Genome takes you right into the thick of today's most cutting-edge science and its far-reaching implications. Authors Rob DeSalle, who curated the highly successful Genomics Revolution exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and Michael Yudell, Assistant Professor of Public Health at Drexel University, have written a book which clearly explains the ongoing saga of our attempts to understand the mystery of biology's Rosetta Stone and use its code to better our lives. This reader-friendly book employs an understandable style and eye-popping full-color illustrations to provide real insights into the complex science involved. It delves into the past discoveries that led to the sequencing of the human genome; it presents the challenges facing today's scientists and society and culture in general; and it considers the future possibilities of the developing genome era. Social issues, particularly questions of ethics, receive special attention, covering an important area too often overshadowed by science and technology. If the genome really is the book of life, then we have only just opened to the first of its many pages. Those who triumphantly claim DNA is destiny may have spoken too soon; it is far more likely today's discoveries will lead to insights yet to be imagined. A stirring and informative introduction to a scientific epic still unfolding, Welcome to the Genome is an essential guide for understanding - and participating in - the incredible explorations, discussions, and realizations of the Genomic Revolution.

Author : Hans C. Andersson, MD,Whitney Stewart
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781728411583

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Genomics by Hans C. Andersson, MD,Whitney Stewart Pdf

Over the past 50 years, scientists have made incredible progress in the application of genetic research to human health care and disease treatment. Innovative tools and techniques, including gene therapy and CRISPR-Cas9 editing, can treat inherited disorders that were previously untreatable, or prevent them from happening in the first place. You can take a DNA test to learn where your ancestors are from. Police officers can use genetic evidence to identify criminals—or innocents. And some doctors are using new medical techniques for unprecedented procedures. Genomics: A Revolution in Health and Disease Discovery delves into the history, science, and ethics behind recent breakthroughs in genetic research. Authors Whitney Stewart and Hans Andersson, MD, present fascinating case studies that show how real people have benefitted from genetic research. Though the genome remains full of mysteries, researchers and doctors are working hard to uncover its secrets and find the best ways to treat patients and cure diseases. The discoveries to come will inform how we target disease treatment, how we understand our health, and how we define our very identities.

Author : Marvin Levin,Michael Pfeifer
Publisher : American Diabetes Association
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-19
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781580403825

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The Uncomplicated Guide to Diabetes Complications by Marvin Levin,Michael Pfeifer Pdf

Diabetes complications can be prevented, and they can be treated. First you need to know how serious and life threatening the issues are that you're up against. Learn how to take care of yourself to prevent diabetes complications before they become deadly. Uncomplicated Guide to Diabetes Complications is divided into chapters on major parts and systems of the body and the diabetic complications that may affect them. This new edition covers everything from heart disease prevention, eye problems, and diabetic kidney diseases to gastroparesis, GI problems, and critical diabetic foot care. Also included is the latest information on new diabetes medications, overcoming depression, and even erectile dysfunction. Get the edge you need to protect yourself and to prevent or slow down diabetes complications. Most people affected by diabetes will experience complications as a result of diabetes symptoms. How to treat and prevent those complications seems overwhelming, but The Uncomplicated Guide to Diabetes Complications makes understanding what to do a snap.

Author : Tara Acharya,Neeraja Sankaran
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781573565295

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The Human Genome Sourcebook by Tara Acharya,Neeraja Sankaran Pdf

This is not another book about the Human Genome Project. It is, however, about the human genome: the genes that make it up, what the genes do when they are acting properly, and what happens when these genes are damaged. Designed for today's reader who demands quick answers to a wide range of questions, this book is intended to offer the nonspecialist a first-stop, but fairly detailed, guide to the genome. The information it provides is given context: namely, the basic scientific principles of genome research, the new knowledge unearthed or created by this research, and the social and ethical implications of this knowledge.

Author : Britannica
Publisher : Constable
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Genetics
ISBN : 1845299442

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The Britannica Guide to Genetics by Britannica Pdf

An invaluable introduction to the major ideas, discoveries, and personalities in the history of our quest for the origins of life.