Protecting the Genetic Self from Biometric Threats: Autonomy, Identity, and Genetic Privacy
Genetic Engineering (Medical Perspectives S.) (Medical Perspectives)
by J Williams, etc., A. Ceccarelli, and N. Spurr
The ability to purify specific pieces of prokaryotic and eukaryotic DNA has accelerated progress in almost all fields of biology and found major medical and commercial appications. Specifically written for undergraduates, this textbook describes the principles and techniques of DNA cloning as used to isolate and manipulate DNA. Molecular biology, biotechnology, undergraduates, graduates
With vast new scientific and technological powers, we face unprecedented choices for which traditional ethics provide little direct guidance. What role can the religious community play in addressing the ethical and theological issues that even science now acknowledges as urgent? Chapman's work forges a method for integrating ethical reasoning with scientific data, focusing on four issues -- cloning, genetic engineering, patenting of life, and environmental alteration. For each, she reviews the w...
The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate
by Suzanne Holland, Karen Lebacqz, and Laurie Zoloth
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book for 2002Human embryonic stem cells can divide indefinitely and have the potential to develop into many types of tissue. Research on these cells is essential to one of the most intriguing medical frontiers, regenerative medicine. It also raises a host of difficult ethical issues and has sparked great public interest and controversy. This book offers a foundation for thinking about the many issues involved in human embryonic stem cell research. It considers questio...
Outlines the link between genes and performance in farm animals shows tools for more effective genetic selection highlights the role and ethical implications of new reproductive and molecular genetic technologies. The application of scientific methods to animal breeding has led to major improvements in the output, cost and quality of animal products over the last few decades. This book describes the principles of genetic improvement of farm livestock and the practical application of these princi...
A fascinating scientific autobiography integrating personal anecdotes and observations from Neel's field work in Japan and Brazil. Presents a unique view regarding the future of human genetics in a world already confronting the genetic implications of population control, genetic counseling, gene therapy as well as the diagnosis and treatment of genetic disease. Suggests a set of genetic measures and priorities at some variance with those currently being emphasized.
Chromatin And Epigenetics: An Introduction To Epigenetic Mechanisms
by Vincenzo Pirrotta
This book is an introduction to epigenetics, a controversial term that denotes the mechanisms that instruct the genome on how to express the purely genetic information that encodes proteins. Starting with the discovery of repressor proteins in the 1960s, epigenetics evolved into a kind of user manual for the genetic information, telling the genome if, when, how much and in what cells to read genes. Advances in epigenetics in the past 15 years have revealed how it lies at the heart of virtually e...
First published in 1982 . This report examines the application of classical and molecular genetic technologies to micro-organisms, plants, and animals. This book is one of the first comprehensive documents on emerging genetic technologies and their implications for society. The authors discuss the opportunities and problems involved, describe current techniques, and attempt to project some of the economic, environmental, and institutional impacts of those techniques. The issues they raise go bey...
Introduction to Nuclear Mechanics and Genome Regulation
by G.V. Shivashankar
Introduction to Nuclear Mechanics and Genome Regulation provides a detailed discussion of the biophysical principles underlying nuclear organization and their role in determining tissue function, cell differentiation and homeostasis, and disease expression and management. Applied case studies and full cover images support concept illustration across a diverse range of chapters covering physico-chemical constraints in DNA, 3D organization of chromosomes and functional gene clusters, spatial dimen...
Bioinformatics of Genome Regulation and Structure II
by Nikolay Koldhanov
The last 15 years in development of biology were marked with accumulation of unprecedentedly huge arrays of experimental data. The information was amassed with exclusively high rates due to the advent of highly efficient experimental technologies that provided for high throughput genomic sequencing; of functional genomics technologies allowing investigation of expression dynamics of large groups of genes using expression DNA chips; of proteomics methods giving the possibility to analyze protein...
Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics of Drosophila (Monographs in Evolutionary Biology)
Ecological and evolutionary genetics span many disciplines and virtually all levels of biological investigation, from the genetic information itself to the principles governing the complex organization of living things. The ideas and informa tion generated by ecological and evolutionary genetics provide the substance for strong inferences on the origins, changes and patterns of structural and functional organization in bio logical communi ties. It is the coordination of these ideas and thoughts...
Human Chromosomes: Structure, Behavior, and Effects (Springer Study Edition)
by Eeva Therman and Millard Susman
The third edition of this successful text provides students, researchers and technicians in the area of medicine, genetics and cell biology with a concise, understandable introduction to the structure and behavior of human chromosomes. It covers both basic and up-to-date material on normal and defective chromosomes. The mapping and molecular analysis of chromosomes is one of the most exciting and active areas of modern biomedical research, and this book will be invaluable to scientists, students...
Immunology and Genetics of Mammalian Reproduction: Some Controversial Issues
Various experimental procedures have been employed to elucidate the complex immunological materno-fetal interactions. However, they have often not provided clear information regarding the mechanisms responsible for protecting the conceptus against potential attack by the mother's immune system. This special issue, written by well-known researchers, presents a detailed analysis of controversial topics in the field. The papers deal with the following issues: the problem of immunological infertilit...
Describing the different aspects of the eukaryotic genome functional architecture, this volume focuses on how the spatial organization of a genome within a eukaryotic cell nucleus fulfills the specific needs of the genome functioning. It presents an integral view of eukaryotic cell nuclei functional compartmentalization with special emphasis on the genome spatial organization and the functional significance of this organization.
Genetics in Minutes is your compact and accessible guide to the central concepts of the science of genetics, revealing how our genes shape our bodies and our lives, and how in turn we are beginning to shape them. Covering the basics of DNA, inheritance and evolution in animals, plants and humans alike - from the origins and development of life to the Human Genome and designer babies - this is the fastest, fullest path to understanding genetics. Contents include Genes, DNA, Natural selection,...
Gerontological Aspects of Genome Peptide Regulation
by V. K. Khavinson and V. V. Malinin
This monograph highlights the gerontological aspects of the peptide regulation of gene expression. It focuses on the mechanisms of the geroprotective action of peptides related to chromatin activation, increase in telomerase enzyme activity, and elongation of telomeres in different cells. A key role in the initiation of the biological activity of peptide is its interaction with DNA which provides genetic stability and a normalization of the age-related metabolic shifts. Study of the genetic mech...
Mutations in Man
This year we remember the 39th anniversary of the atomic bomb explo- sions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which led to the exposure of thou- sands of people to high doses of ionizing radiations. Nearly 18 years earlier, on the 15th of September, 1927, H. J. Muller presented his paper The Problem of Genic Modification at the Fifth International Congress of Genetics in Berlin, in which he brilliantly demonstrated the muta- genic activity of X-rays. In 1928, K. H. Bauer formulated his mutation theory o...
How tiny variations in our personal DNA can determine how we look, how we behave, how we get sick, and how we get well.News stories report almost daily on the remarkable progress scientists are making in unraveling the genetic basis of disease and behavior. Meanwhile, new technologies are rapidly reducing the cost of reading someone's personal DNA (all six billion letters of it). Within the next ten years, hospitals may present parents with their newborn's complete DNA code along with her footpr...
Learn all about how your DNA makes you who you are—an awesome, unique individual—in this fun and simple illustrated guide! Did you know your sense of purpose is determined by your genes? And that DNA determines your reaction to poison ivy, and maybe even your sex drive? In DNA Is You!, the author behind Beatrice the Biologist uses her trademark humor to break down the ins and outs of DNA to give you the low-down on each trait, one by one. She provides the answers to questions like: how depen...