Frank Carlson Library

"In The Disappearing Spoon, bestselling author Sam Kean unlocked the mysteries of the periodic table. In THE VIOLINIST'S THUMB, he explores the wonders of the magical building block of life: DNA. There are genes to explain crazy cat ladies, why other people have no fingerprints, and why some people survive nuclear bombs. Genes illuminate everything from JFK's bronze skin (it wasn't a tan) to Einstein's genius. They prove that Neanderthals and humans...

Freddy Bugge Christiansen is professor of population biology at the University of Aarhus in Denmark. He is the author of Population Genetics of Multiple Loci and coauthor of Theories of Populations in Biological Communities and Population Genetics. This textbook provides an authoritative introduction to both classical and coalescent approaches to population genetics. Written for graduate students and advanced undergraduates by one of the world's...

Hasta hace muy poco tiempo la genética cuantitativa y el mejoramiento animal se consideraban como un pilar de la zootecnia con nula o muy poca aplicación a nivel de explotaciones en Colombia. Afortunadamente, en la actualidad esto ha cambiado y hoy se reconoce como una herramienta de transformación, junto con la nutrición y la reproducción para el mejoramiento en los rendimientos de las características de importancia económica objeto de la...

Las respuestas de la ciencia a las cuestiones clave de la Genética: los organismos transgénicos, clones y mutaciones, la epigenética, la bioética, el papel de los genes en nuestras emociones, la estructura del ADN, la ingeniería genética y la medicina predictiva. ¿Cómo se construye un organismo desde el ADN?, ¿Se pueden crear mutantes?, ¿Cómo funciona el virus del SIDA?, ¿Qué es una dieta genética?, ¿Cómo se crea una planta transgénica?,...

La edición genética ha irrumpido con fuerza tanto en los laboratorios como en la sociedad. En particular desde que aparecieron las herramientas CRISPR, descubiertas en bacterias por un microbiólogo español, Francis Mojica, de la Universidad de Alicante, hace más de 25 años. Con ellas se han propuesto multitud de aplicaciones en biología, en salud y en biotecnología, algunas de las cuales plantean dilemas éticos, como su uso en embriones humanos....

Leading scholars from a range of disciplines, including law, biology, sociology, history, anthropology, and psychology, examine the impact of modern genetics on the concept of race. Does mapping the human genome reconstitute a scientific rationale for long-discredited racial categories? Contributors trace the interplay between genetics and race in forensic DNA databanks, the biology of intelligence, DNA ancestry markers, and racialized medicine. Each...

Summary of The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee | Includes Analysis Preview: The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee describes the history of genetic research, the impact of genetic inheritance on his family, and the potential for future applications of gene science. Mukherjee's father and uncles struggled with disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, both of which are linked to genetic mutations. After centuries of conjecture about the nature of...

An exploration of the once-ignored portion of our DNA and the role it plays in our bodies, from the author of The Epigenetics Revolution. For decades after the identification of the structure of DNA, scientists focused only on genes, the regions of the genome that contain codes to produce proteins. Other regions that make up 98 percent of the human genome were dismissed as "junk," sequences that serve no purpose. But researchers have recently discovered...

An accessible introduction to core concepts in evolution for lay readers, which shows that random events have played a critical role in the development of life. Critical historical events-or "turning points"-have shaped evolution and continue to have a decisive effect on individual lives. This theme is explored and explained in this lucid, accessible book for lay readers. The author argues that, although evolution is the result of unpredictable events,...

Since the publication in 1859 of Darwin's “Origin of Species”, debate over the theory of evolution has been continuous and often impassioned. In recent years, opponents of "Darwin's dangerous idea" have mounted history's most sophisticated and generously funded attack, claiming that evolution is "a theory in crisis." Ironically, these claims are being made at a time when the explosion of information from genome projects has revealed the most compelling...