Screen LibraryMapping humanity : how modern genetics is changing criminal justice, personalized medicine, and our identities /
"Northwestern University biology professor and research director Joshua Z. Rappoport provides a detailed look at how the explosion in genetic information as a result of cutting-edge technologies is changing our lives and our world"--
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BenBella Books, Inc.,
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| Publisher Address: | Dallas, TX : |
| Publication Dates: | [2020] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"Northwestern University biology professor and research director Joshua Z. Rappoport provides a detailed look at how the explosion in genetic information as a result of cutting-edge technologies is changing our lives and our world"-- |
| Carrier Form: | 321 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-305) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781950665082 1950665089 |
| Index Number: | QH431 |
| CLC: | Q987 |
| Call Number: | Q987/R221 |
| Contents: |
The basics of DNA, chromosomes, and genes -- Gene mutations and polymorphisms -- Sequencing DNA -- Next generation sequencing -- Big Data! -- Ancestry -- Neanderthal DNA -- Genetic screening -- Genomic justice -- Classical methods to search for disease-causing mutations -- Genome wide association studies -- 21st century eugenics? -- DNA and prenatal genetic testing -- Pharmacogenomics -- Personalized medicine -- Gene therapy -- CRISPR : clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic -- Repeats -- CRISPR babies? -- GMOs : genetically modified organisms -- The future of food? -- Pets : ancestry, health, and cloning -- Conservation and eradication -- Beyond the genome -- The basics of epigenetics -- Epigenetics in action -- Mitochondrial DNA -- The future. |