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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Hodge, Russ, 1961-     Subjects     Genetics -- Popular works.     Genetics -- Forecasting.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Hodge, Russ, 1961-       by title:      The future of geneti...         MARC Display

The future of genetics [electronic resource] : beyond the human genome project / Russ Hodge ; foreword by Nadia Rosenthal. by Hodge, Russ, 1961- New York, NY : Facts on File, c2010. Subjects Genetics -- Popular works.   Genetics -- Forecasting. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=E3DC7E99-7801-4B9F-9061-0EF8798E9F12 This title is available online; click here to access ISBN:  9781438128573 (electronic bk.) 1438128576 (electronic bk.) Series:  Genetics and evolution. Description:  1 online resource (xix, 204 p.) : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps. Contents:  Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The origins of twenty-first-century biology -- Plants, animals, and cells -- Cell biology and medicine -- Evolution, genetics, and mathematics -- The failed marriage between evolution and sociology -- Cell biology, chemistry, and genes -- Physics, chemistry, and genetics -- Genetics, embryology, and evolution -- The rise of genetic engineering -- Computers and biology -- 2. Literature, culture, and social perceptions of science -- Frankenstein : or, The modern Prometheus -- Evolution, religion, and schools -- Eugenics and Brave new world -- The shape of humans to come--the transhumans of Patricia Piccinini -- Silent spring and the rise of environmental movements -- Genetically modified crops and the marketing of science -- Cloned dinosaurs and invaders from space -- 3. Studying life in the post-genome era -- Genotypes and phenotypes -- Genomic technologies -- Biodiversity and metagenomics -- Metagenomics, extremophiles, and the search for extraterrestrial life -- Manipulating genes -- Imaging molecules within living cells -- The digital embryo -- Imaging bodies -- 4. The future of humanity and the world -- Designer babies and post-human future -- Curing brain diseases and the new pharmacology -- Cure from shamans and traditional healers -- Consciousness and the brain -- The quest for eternal youth and immortality -- Saving the world : ants, humans, and the fate of the Earth -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Further resources -- Index. Requests:  0   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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