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Is Human Nature Obsolete? : Genetics, Bioengineering, and the Future of the Human Condition (Basic Bioethics) |
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Book Description
As our scientific and technical abilities expand at breathtaking speeds, concern that modern genetics and bioengineering are leading us to a posthuman future is growing. Is Human Nature Obsolete? poses the overarching question of what it is to be human against the background of these current advances in biotechnology. Its perspective is philosophical and interdisciplinary rather than technical; the focus is on questions of fundamental ontological importance r... >> |
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Manipulating the Mouse Embryo: A Laboratory Manual |
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From Book News, Inc.
Provides background information and detailed protocols for developing a mouse colony and using the animals in transgenic and gene-targeting experiments. The protocols list the animals, equipment, and reagents required and step-by-step procedures. Topics include in vitro culture of preimplantation embryos, surgical procedures, the production of chimeras, and the analysis of genome alterations. The third edition adds protocols for cloning mice, modifying embry... >> |
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Human Molecular Genetics, Third Edition |
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From Book News, Inc.
Strachan (scientific director, Institute for Human Genetics; human molecular genetics, University of Newcastle, UK) and Read (human genetics, Manchester University) have integrated the latest data from the Human Genome Project and have included new chapters on cells and development and on functional genomics, proteomics, and bioinformatics in this third edition of a text bridging elementary textbooks and the research literature. There is rewritten and reorganiz... >> |
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Genetics
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