Wendel, Tim
Summary: "When Eric Wendel was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 1966, the survival rate was 10 percent. Today, it is 90 percent. Even as politicians call for a "Cancer Moonshot," this accomplishment remains a pinnacle in cancer research. The author’s daughter, then a medical student at Georgetown Medical School, told her father about this amazing success story. Tim Wendel soon discovered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.92Doudna, 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 DOUFlatow, Ira.
Summary: An irreverent tour of the science of everyday life by a veteran NPR correspondent draws on his conversations with such authorities as E. O. Wilson and Carl Sagan to investigate such fields as stem-cell research, genetic engineering, and alternative energies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collins 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 FLALane, Nick.
Summary: "Today, mitochondria are central to research into human prehistory, genetic diseases, cell suicide, fertility, ageing, bioenergetics, sex, and the eukaryotic cell. Piecing together puzzles from the forefront of research, this book paints a sweeping canvas that will thrill all who are interested in biology, while also contributing to evolutionary thinking and debate. This is a book full of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 571.657 LANGoetz, Thomas
Summary: The riveting history of tuberculosis, the world's most lethal disease, the two men whose lives it tragically intertwined, and the birth of medical science.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 614.542 GOERichards, Douglas E.
Summary: "A novel in the best tradition of Douglas Preston and Michael Crichton . . . with a little John Grisham thrown in. A young woman, Erin Palmer, witnesses a psychopath murder her parents and sister. The bloody trauma propels her into a scientific career. She is studying the microbiology of the psychopathic brain, and is on a quest to discover the DNA which engenders the cerebral disease. Teaming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICBland, Jeffrey
Summary: "For decades, Dr. Jeffrey Bland has been on the cutting edge of Functional Medicine, which seeks to pinpoint and prevent the cause of illness, rather than treat its symptoms. Managing chronic diseases accounts for three quarters of our total healthcare costs, because we're masking these illnesses with pills and temporary treatments, rather than addressing their underlying causes, he argues....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harperwave 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610 BLASummary: Although doctors don't know exactly what causes ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the last decade has brought new scientific insight into the disorder. This program follows the quest for better ALS treatments, assesses the possibility of a cure, and illustrates what life is like for ALS patients today. Dartmouth professor Dr. Elijah Stommel discusses the potential use of thalidomide to...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Today, Jim Allison is a name to be reckoned with throughout the scientific world, holding a 2018 Nobel Prize for discovering the role of the immune system in defeating cancer. But for decades, he waged a lonely war against the skepticism of the medical establishment and the resistance of Big Pharma. This is the astounding true story of one warm-hearted, stubborn man's visionary quest to find a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC JIMCure (Musical group)
Contents: Lost -- Labyrinth -- Before three -- The end of the world -- Anniversary -- Us or them -- alt.end -- (I don't know what's going) On -- Taking off -- Never -- The promise.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Geffen Records 2004