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May We Make the World?
Gene Drives, Malaria, and the Future of Nature
ISBN: 9780262546980
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 19, 2023
An in-depth look at genetic alteration in the natural world and the oppositions to it, seen through the case study of a gene drive for malaria.
The Foundations of Population Genetics
ISBN: 9780262047579
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 29, 2023
An accessible but rigorous treatment of the theoretical foundations of population genetics.
CRISPR People
The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans
ISBN: 9780262543880
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 1, 2022
What does the birth of babies whose embryos have gone through genome editing mean—for science and for all of us?
The Genealogy of a Gene
Patents, HIV/AIDS, and Race
ISBN: 9780262533782
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 24, 2017
The history of the CCR5 gene as a lens through which to view such issues as intellectual property, Big Pharma, personalized medicine, and race and genomics.
Genetic Twists of Fate
ISBN: 9780262518642
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 8, 2013
How tiny variations in our personal DNA can determine how we look, how we behave, how we get sick, and how we get well.
Genetics and Life Insurance
Medical Underwriting and Social Policy
ISBN: 9780262512596
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 23, 2009
Experts discuss the economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of genetic testing in determining eligibility for life insurance.
Heredity Produced
At the Crossroads of Biology, Politics, and Culture, 1500-1870
ISBN: 9780262134767
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 16, 2007
The cultural history of heredity: scholars from a range of disciplines discuss the evolution of the concept of heredity, from the Early Modern understanding of the act of "generation" to its later nineteenth-century definition as the transmission of characteristics across generations.
May We Make the World?
Gene Drives, Malaria, and the Future of Nature
ISBN: 9780262546980
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 19, 2023
An in-depth look at genetic alteration in the natural world and the oppositions to it, seen through the case study of a gene drive for malaria.
The Foundations of Population Genetics
ISBN: 9780262047579
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 29, 2023
An accessible but rigorous treatment of the theoretical foundations of population genetics.
CRISPR People
The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans
ISBN: 9780262543880
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 1, 2022
What does the birth of babies whose embryos have gone through genome editing mean—for science and for all of us?
The Genealogy of a Gene
Patents, HIV/AIDS, and Race
ISBN: 9780262533782
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 24, 2017
The history of the CCR5 gene as a lens through which to view such issues as intellectual property, Big Pharma, personalized medicine, and race and genomics.
Genetic Twists of Fate
ISBN: 9780262518642
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 8, 2013
How tiny variations in our personal DNA can determine how we look, how we behave, how we get sick, and how we get well.
Genetics and Life Insurance
Medical Underwriting and Social Policy
ISBN: 9780262512596
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 23, 2009
Experts discuss the economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of genetic testing in determining eligibility for life insurance.
Heredity Produced
At the Crossroads of Biology, Politics, and Culture, 1500-1870
ISBN: 9780262134767
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 16, 2007
The cultural history of heredity: scholars from a range of disciplines discuss the evolution of the concept of heredity, from the Early Modern understanding of the act of "generation" to its later nineteenth-century definition as the transmission of characteristics across generations.