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Modern science has made remarkable advances in genetics. This volume covers the foundations of genes and heredity to give readers a solid understanding of what modern genetics has been built on, before examining the ways in which genetic testing is used to assess genetic risk. Also featured are the many ways researchers and medical professionals are using gene therapy to improve lives, as well as bioethical considerations and social ramifications...
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Popular television shows, such as Finding Your Roots and Who Do You Think You Are? have ignited a renewed passion for traditional genealogical research and thrown genetic ancestry testing into the spotlight. Once a tool only for historians and forensic scientists, DNA testing is now available directly to the consumer. Supporting the Next Generation Science Standards on heredity and inheritance of traits, this book uses simple language and detailed...
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On Sarah's birthday, her best friend Victoria gives her a genetic testing kit as a gift so she can learn more about her family's lineage. But that night, Victoria is tragically killed. Weeks later, Sarah gets a knock on her door, and it's the police. As their homicide case ran cold, they decided to run the killer's DNA through the genetic testing site's database and there was a match: Sarah.
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She betrayed him. His wife. The woman he loved. She fled, and Captain Kobrah Jameson thought himself rid of her until the day she comes back. And Dara isn't alone. Kobrah doesn't want to believe the child by her side is his daughter. The facts don't add up, but genetic testing doesn't lie. And apparently, his heart hasn't learned its lesson because this captain is thinking of giving his wife a second chance. If they don't get killed first.
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The Decision Trap questions a dogma of our time: the assumption that genetic education empowers citizens and increases their autonomy. It argues that professional instructions about genes, genetic risks, and genetic test options convey a genetic worldview which destroys self-confidence and makes clients dependent on genetic experts and technologies. Part one of the book introduces the reader to the idea of genetic education. It clarifies the notion...
7) Getting Pregnant and Staying Pregnant: Overcoming Infertility and Managing Your High-Risk Pregnancy
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Author is a nursing consultant. Text includes the latest information on fertility tests, treatments ranging from improved in-vitro fertilization to updated drug combinations and dosages, genetic testing, screening for hereditary abnormalities, using the Internet, and more.
11) Genetics
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Explores the history, breakthroughs, and possibilities of the field of genetics, from the work of Gregor Mendel to the discovery of DNA, including information on genetic testing and manipulation.
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An exposé on Big Pharma and the American healthcare system’s zeal for excessive medical testing, from a nationally recognized expert
More screening doesn’t lead to better health—but can turn healthy people into patients.
Going against the conventional wisdom reinforced by the medical establishment and Big Pharma that more screening is the best preventative medicine,...
More screening doesn’t lead to better health—but can turn healthy people into patients.
Going against the conventional wisdom reinforced by the medical establishment and Big Pharma that more screening is the best preventative medicine,...
13) The Two Of Us
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Longlisted for the 2016 Giller Prize! The stories in The Two of Us focus on pairs: intense one-on-one relationships and encounters. Characters undergo genetic testing, garden, overeat, starve themselves, consider suicide, travel, have their hair cut, fall pregnant, all while simultaneously driving each other towards moments where they – sometimes unwillingly - glimpse the meaning and shape of their lives, and who they might become.
14) On the line
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Mateo Castillo is a rising star chef on the Manhattan culinary scene. But just as he's about to reap the rewards of his skill and hard work by being featured on a major TV cooking competition, Mateo collapses in his restaurant's kitchen and regains consciousness in a hospital emergency room. If it weren't for a security guard finding him in time, Mateo would have bled to death. The cause of his sudden illness is as mysterious as it is worrying, and...
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If you pay attention to the news, you've probably seen some scary headlines: deadly viruses spreading, obesity on the rise, and more. But the truth is, most of these scary health issues have solutions. Breakthroughs in medical treatment and technology keep us as safe and healthy as possible. Genetic testing, MRIs, and organ engineering are just a few of the improvements that keep people healthy. Learn more about how medical technology keeps us safe....
17) Uninvited
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When seventeen-year-old Davy Hamilton tests positive for Homicidal Tendency Syndrome, everyone believes it is only a matter of time before she murders someone.
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The Yeerks have decided to try a little experiment. They've decided that if they can develop a way to make people more "willing" to be infested, they can speed up Earth's invasion. So the Yeerks try to invent a substance that will take away the human ability to make a decision. A substance that will eliminate free will.
Now the Animorphs are not only faced with trying to slow down the Yeerks' invasion, but they also have to put an end to the genetic...
19) The experiment
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The Yeerks have decided to try a little experiment. They've decided that if they can develop a way to make people more "willing” to be infested, they can speed up Earth's invasion. So, the Yeerks try to invent a substance that will take away the human ability to make a decision. A substance that will eliminate free will.
Now the Animorphs are not only faced with trying to slow down the Yeerks' invasion, but they also have to put an end to the genetic...
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This complete summary of the ideas from Gina Smith's book "The Genomics Age" shows how genetic testing is currently being used in many ways in the medical sector; however, it is experiencing challenges with costs, ethics and patient rights. In this book, the author explains the progress in genomics and what we can expect for the future. This summary provides readers with an insight into the uses and development of genomic discovery and how this will...
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