Summary: "Every year, over a million babies are born worldwide with a hereditary disease; most are serious, and many are fatal. For most of the history of medicine, doctors could only treat symptoms. Now an elite cadre of pioneers, gene doctors, is starting to target root causes. Through intimate stories of families whose lives are being transformed, the film takes viewers to the frontlines of a medical...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GENGibson, Greg.
Contents: The adolescent genome -- Breast cancer's broken genes -- Not so thrifty diabetes genes -- Unhealthy hygiene -- Genetic AIDS -- Generating depression -- The Alzheimer's generation -- Genetic normality.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pearson Education 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.042 GIBSadava, David E.
Summary: "Understanding genetics is like sitting down to work a massive puzzle. With each piece you examine, think through, and solve, you glean a new and amazing insight into humanity. Put several pieces together, and you can treat or cure a disease, save a developing fetus from a fatal birth defect, catch a criminal, or reunite a family ... Each lecture begins with a helpful story that illustrates the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 572.86 SAD PART 2Summary: Imagine a world free of genetic diseases, where parents control their offspring's height, eye color, and intelligence. This world may be closer than you think, as scientists make great advances in genetic engineering. Such practices, however, could have unintended consequences, such as creating new diseases or ailments. And yet even if the science could be perfected, is it morally right? Would...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2013
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Wingerson, Lois.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.935 WINShawker, Thomas H.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rutledge Hill Press 2004
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 616.042 SHALynch, Ben
Summary: "After suffering for years with unexplainable health issues, Dr. Ben Lynch discovered the root cause--"dirty" genes. Genes can be "born dirty" or merely "act dirty" in response to your environment, diet, or lifestyle--causing lifelong, life-threatening, and chronic health problems, including cardiovascular disease, autoimmune disorders, anxiety, depression, digestive issues, obesity, cancer,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 572.8 LYNWilson, F. Paul (Francis Paul)
Summary: "Something sits in a bunker lab buried fifty feet below the grounds of Lakehurst Naval Air Station. The product of technology confiscated from the Germans after WWII occupies a chamber of steel-reinforced ballistic glass. Despite experimentation for nearly three-quarters of a century, no one knows what it is, but illegal human research reveals what it can do. Humans with special...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forge/Tom Doherty Associates 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Wilson 2019Ashley, Euan A.
Summary: "In The Genome Odyssey, Dr. Euan Ashley, Stanford professor of medicine and genetics, brings the breakthroughs of precision medicine to vivid life through the real diagnostic journeys of his patients and the tireless efforts of his fellow doctors and scientists as they hunt to prevent, predict, and beat disease. Since the Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, the price of genome...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 572.8 ASHSummary: 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.
Format: text
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 CLOGormley, Myra Vanderpool
Summary: This compact book is a primer on both inherited disease and genealogy, but emphasizes the latter, as might be expected from the author, a genealogist. Gormley provides sketchy, anecdotal information on genetic research, but leaves diagnosis and detailed medical explanations to the experts. Instead, she offers a summary of resources for genealogic investigations, explaining how to utilize state...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clearfield 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.042 GORSummary: It's one of the greatest breakthroughs in scientific history, but genetic engineering has also brought disturbing new questions. Should we push genetic research to its absolute limit, exploiting every discovery? What are the consequences of intervening in nature's processes at their most fundamental level? Outlining the potential benefits of genetic engineering, such as the treatment or cure of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Richard Resnick explains genome sequencing in this TEDTalk, spelling out its uses and potential abuses. Sequencing is helping to extend human lives, with applications ranging from early cancer detection to the creation of drought-resistant, genetically-modified crops. But what if insurance companies begin to require genetic screening prior to issuing policies? There is already a lab that tests...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Yeo, Giles
Summary: An indispensable, groundbreaking look at the way our genetic makeup influences our relationship with food.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.2 YEOSummary: Jokes about test-tube babies may have faded into pop-culture history, but today, even though in vitro fertilization has helped millions of people become parents, the technology still leads some cultural observers to question its methods, applications, and moral impact. IVF can be used to weed out hereditary diseases, but this ability to select embryos based on DNA testing also raises fears...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011