The Genetic Jigsaw: The Story of the New Genetics

What is genetic disease?  Can it be cured? How does it occur?  How can the risks be reduced?  What promises does the future hold?  In this book, Robin McKie guides the reader through one of the most complex and exciting subjects of current research, the study of genetically transmitted diseases.  McKie investigates the dramatic advances in diagnosis and gene therapy, gene splicing and cloning, the design of special drugs, and DNA fingerprinting, and discusses the ethical problems that arise from this rapidly expanding area of research.  He addresses such issues as: Will widespread genetic screening lead to unfair discrimination?  How do we define handicap?  And if we start `designing' our babies, what will we design? Written for the layperson, this book will be of interest to anyone coping with genetically inherited disease or wishing to learn more about genetic engineering.

McKie, Robin

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Oxford University Press

What is genetic disease? Can it be cured? How does it occur? How can the risks be reduced? What promises does the future hold? In this book, Robin McKie guides the reader through one of the most complex and exciting subjects of current research, the study of genetically transmitted diseases. McKie investigates the dramatic advances in diagnosis and gene therapy, gene splicing and cloning, the design of special drugs, and DNA fingerprinting, and discusses the ethical problems that arise from this rapidly expanding area of research. He addresses such issues as: Will widespread genetic screening lead to unfair discrimination? How do we define handicap? And if we start `designing' our babies, what will we design? Written for the layperson, this book will be of interest to anyone coping with genetically inherited disease or wishing to learn more about genetic engineering.

Science & Math

Evolution

James Watson, a discoverer of the structure of D.N.A., described it as "the most golden of molecules," the true chemical for life. Indeed, it is the essential component from which our genes are made. In it is encoded the genetic language that controls our destinies. Astonishingly powerful, just six millionths of a gram of D.N.A. carries as much information as ten volumes of the Oxford English Dictionary. The "Book of Man," is the term used by Walter Bodmer and Robin McKie for the D.N.A. that is the instruction set according to which all humans are made. At conception, a single cell-the fertilized egg-is produced, and it is this one cell that has the potential to form a new and unique individual under the guidance of the D.N.A. within its nucleus. The human body is made up of a hundred million million cells of many different sorts, and all contain the inherited information that comes from that first, single cell created at fertilization. Bodmer and McKie assert that when we learn how to read D.N.A.'s pages and chapters we will obtain the information relevant to the understanding of most diseases, individual differences in behavior, and a new awareness of our own history and evolution. The Book of Man explores how genetic information is now being read and interpreted by focusing on biology's most ambitious undertaking to date-the Human Genome Project, an attempt to uncover all the 100,000 genes that control our development and detail the D.N.A. alphabet of each. The authors go on to wrestle with the moral and ethical issues of modern genetics, making a case for a rational appraisal of genetic engineering and for the public to become sufficiently "D.N.A. literate" in order to appreciate the crucial role it plays in our lives. From Gregor Mendel's discovery of the laws of inheritance to the high-tech, crime-stopping power of forensics science and the fascinating but sometimes troublesome implications of the latest scienc

The Book of Man: The Human Genome Project and the Quest to Discover Our Genetic Heritage

Bodmer, Sir Walter

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A history and analysis of the Human Genome Project--also known as The Book of Man--the massive international effort mapping each of the three billion molecules that make up human DNA, chronicles the progress of the undertaking. 15,000 first printing.

Bodmer, W. F.

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The Genetic Jigsaw: The Story of the New Genetics

The Genetic Jigsaw: The Story of the New Genetics

The Book of Man: The Human Genome Project and the Quest to Discover Our Genetic Heritage

Nuclear Power (Energy Today)

Lasers (The Electronic Revolution)

Technology (Watts Science World Series)

Robots (Modern Technology Series)

Energy (Science Frontiers)

The Book of Man: The Human Genome Project and the Quest to Discover Our Genetic Heritage

Panic: The Story of AIDS