Campbell, Jeff
Summary: "Bioengineering has the potential to solve a range of urgent, global problems. Why Are We Making Glowing Bunnies!? introduces teen readers to the possibilities, dangers, and ethical issues involved in bioengineering"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zest Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 179 CAMNossal, G. J. V. (Gustav Joseph Victor)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 570 NossalSuarez, Daniel
Summary: "On a crowded train platform, Interpol agent Kenneth Durand feels the sting of a needle-- and his transformation begins. In 2045 Kenneth Durand leads Interpol's most effective team against genetic crime, hunting down black market labs that perform "vanity edits" on human embryos for a price. These illegal procedures augment embryos in ways that are rapidly accelerating human evolution--preying...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SUAHeine, Steven J.
Summary: "Do you fear what might be lurking in your DNA? Well, now you can find out, and you most likely will. Scientists expect one billion people to have their genomes sequenced by 2025, and as the price drops it may even become a standard medical procedure. Yet cultural psychologist Steven J. Heine argues that the first thing we'll do upon receiving our DNA test results is to misinterpret them...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W . Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 572 HEIRice, Elizabeth.
Summary: "Examines the two sides of the debate related to genetic engineering and each of their benefits and dangers, including the implications in medicine, cloning, the environment, agriculture, and more"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 576.5 RICJenkins, McKay
Summary: "Are GMOs really that bad? A prominent environmental journalist takes a fresh look at what they actually mean for our food system and for us,"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.8 JENMagoon, Scott
Summary: A team of genetically enhanced extinct animals embark on their first big mission to Siberia to retrieve an ancient unicorn horn from the thawing permafrost, but things don't go as planned when they are faced with a mysterious enemy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MAGDoudna, Jennifer A.
Summary: Two Berkeley scientists explore the potential of a revolutionary genetics technology capable of easily and affordably manipulating DNA in human embryos to prevent specific diseases, addressing key concerns about related ethical and societal repercussions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576 DOURochman, Bonnie
Summary: "A researched exploration of the promises and vulnerabilities of having children in an age of genetic tests and interventions considers key scientific, technological and political factors while sharing the stories of men and women struggling to understand the range of the tests and their revelations,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616 ROCSummary: This book explores the history, science, applications, and ethical issues of cloning. Profiles include pioneers in the field, including John Bertrand Gurdon, Ian Wilmut, Shinya Yamanaka, and James Thomson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Britannica Educational Publishing in Association with Rosen Educational Services 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 571 CLOCummins, Ronnie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marlowe 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.8 CUMWatson, James D.
Summary: "James D. Watson, the Nobel laureate whose pioneering work helped unlock the mystery of DNA's structure, charts the greatest scientific journey of our time, from the discovery of the double helix to today's controversies to what the future may hold. Updated to include new findings in gene editing, epigenetics, agricultural chemistry, as well as two entirely new chapters on personal genomics and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576 WATKirksey, Eben
Summary: "An anthropologist visits the frontiers of genetics, medicine, and technology to ask: Whose values are guiding gene editing experiments? And what does this new era of scientific inquiry mean for the future of the human species? "That rare kind of scholarship that is also a page-turner." -Britt Wray, author of Rise of the Necrofauna. At a conference in Hong Kong in November 2018, Dr. He Jiankui...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.5 KIRMcKibben, Bill.
Summary: The author issues a warning about the dangers and limitations of technology, delving into the latest research in genetic engineering, robotics, and nanotechnology to map a future where humans will be made rather than born.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.483 MCKMetzl, Jamie Frederic
Summary: From leading geopolitical expert and technology futurist Jamie Metzl comes a groundbreaking exploration of the many ways genetic-engineering is shaking the core foundations of our lives -- sex, war, love, and death.At the dawn of the genetics revolution, our DNA is becoming as readable, writable, and hackable as our information technology. But as humanity starts retooling our own genetic code,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.5 METCharles, Daniel.
Summary: "The food we eat is being transformed before our eyes. Biotech companies are creating designer crops with strange powers--from cholesterol-reducing soybeans to tobacco plants that act as solar-powered pharmaceutical factories. They promise great benefits: better health for consumers and more productive agriculture. But the vision has a dark side, awakening fears of profit-driven tampering with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Pub. 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 631.5233 CHARonald, Pamela C.
Contents: Cultivating sacred rice in Nihe, China and Davis, California -- Why organic agriculture? -- The tools of organic agriculture -- The tools of genetic engineering -- Legislating lunch -- Who can we trust? -- Is GE food risky to eat? -- Conserving wildlands -- Weeds, gene flow, and the environment -- Who owns the seed? -- Who owns the genes? -- Deconstructing dinner: genetically engineered,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.8 RONFedoroff, Nina V. (Nina Vsevolod)
Summary: Describes the controversies surrounding the production of genetically modified foods.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Joseph Henry Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 FEDHuxley, Aldous
Summary: Towering classic of dystopian satire, BRAVE NEW WORLD is a brilliant and terrifying vision of a soulless society--and of one man who discovers the human costs of mindless conformity. Hundreds of years in the future, the World Controllers have created an ideal civilization. Its members, shaped by genetic engineering and behavioral conditioning, are productive and content in roles they have been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Everyman's Library 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SF HUXLynas, Mark
Summary: "In the mid-1990s, UK newspapers picked up on a controversial issue that had been slowly gathering steam - genetically modified organisms. The media soon could talk about little else. Headlines screamed that this technological advance could pose serious health risks, that our food was already GM-rich and yet we didn't even realise. How could this be? Of course there was science and statistics...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Sigma 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635 LYNBanyard, Antonia
Summary: An infographic introduction to the journey food makes to the plate combines text, photographs, and diagrams that cover such topics as factory farms, genetic engineering, and nutrition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2017
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Contents: A tale of two dystopias -- Sciences of the brain -- Neuropharmacology and the control of behavior -- The prolongation of life -- Genetic engineering -- Why we should worry -- Human rights -- Human nature -- Human dignity -- The political control of biotechnology -- How biotechnology is regulated today -- Policies for the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.4 FUKSummary: This resource introduces students and researchers to the fundamentals of biotechnology using easy-to-understand language that gives readers a solid start and deeper understanding and appreciation of this complex subject. The 134 articles include 109 entries that explain the basic principles of biotechnology, ranging from Alternative Energy Sources to Zygomycetes, with attention paid to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services 2018