Summary: Dr. Silver provides a foundation for understanding how life works at the level of genes and molecules that interact in complex networks to drive human development, evolution, and behavior.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 611 SCICall number: DVD 611 SCI
Summary: In July 2000, scientists made an announcement that triggered front-page headlines around the globe: they had read over 3-billion chemical 'letters' that make up human DNA, and done it faster than anyone expected.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CRASummary: Does it amaze you that yeast is your very close relative? That you possess roughly the same number of genes as a mouse? That you are 99.9% genetically identical to every other human? In this NOVA special, correspondent Robert Krulwich lends a lighthearted touch to genetic science, going inside the amazing, complex, and contentious race to decode the human genome. Discover how the study of our...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2004
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Raff, Jennifer
Summary: "From celebrated genetic anthropologist Jennifer Raff comes the untold story--and fascinating mystery--of how humans migrated to the Americas"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.5 RAFRutherford, Adam
Summary: Adam Rutherford explores the profound paradox of the "human animal." Looking for answers across the animal kingdom, he finds that many things once considered exclusively human are not: In Australia, raptors have been observed starting fires to scatter prey; in Zambia, a chimp named Julie even started a "fashion" of wearing grass in one ear. We aren't the only species that communicates, makes...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment, LLC 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.93 RUTGee, Henry.
Summary: Discusses what can be understood through human genome sequencing, describes how the interactions of genes direct the growth of individuals, and reveals what gene research will enable in the future.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.935 GEERidley, Matt.
Summary: Looks at one newly described gene from each of the twenty-three human chromosomes and explains how each one contributes to our uniqueness as a species.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612 RIDKirksey, 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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Summary: Emily is an artificial consciousness, designed in a lab to help humans process trauma, which is particularly helpful when the sun begins to die 5 billion years before scientists agreed it was supposed to. Her beloved human race is screwed, and so is Emily. That is, until she finds a potential answer buried deep in the human genome that may save them all. But not everyone is convinced Emily has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHEAvise, John C.
Summary: How do you explain flaw in a world engineered by God? Avise extends this age-old question to the most basic aspect of humanity's physical evidence-- our genes-- and provides the evolutionary answers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 611.0181 AVIWatson, 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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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 GIBSummary: In 1990, a massive enterprise was launched to decipher the ultimate instruction manual. The Human Genome Project soon turned into a race and a feud. This program tracks the tumultuous progress of the endeavor, detailing the scientific innovations that led to its completion, as well as its political and economic impact. Exceptional graphics bring home the daunting task of sequencing the human...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: If the 20th century was the era of physics and nuclear fission, the 21st belongs to the life sciences. Moving from gene, to genome, to genetically based diseases, this program provides an overview of the interrelated fields of genomics, proteomics, and bioinformatics, with an emphasis on practical applications of biotechnology to the field of medicine. Are genetically personalized drugs around...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This program discusses the Human Genome Project, gene-related medical research, and beneficial and potentially dangerous applications of genetic technology both to humans and to plants. Efforts to fight disease through gene therapy and recombinant DNA technology are addressed, as well as research into genetically controlling cancer and organ transplant rejection. The risks of agricultural...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program gives an explanation of the promises and the dangers inherent in deciphering the gene map, and a warning about the dangers of eliminating genetic variation and recessive traits. The program analyzes the potential misuse of genetic information and demonstrates the potential of genetic engineering to provide the first true preventive medicine program in medical history, as well as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: In this TEDTalk, Oxford mathematician Peter Donnelly reveals the common mistakes humans make in interpreting statistics - and the devastating impact these errors can have on the outcome of criminal trials. Donnelly is an expert in probability theory who applies statistical methods to genetic data. He's also an expert on DNA analysis, and an advocate for sensible statistical analysis in the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Mapping the human genome was only the first step in the process of decoding our DNA-and that process is far from over. This film follows the work of genetic researchers as they press forward, slowly but surely, in the task of interpreting and understanding life's greatest enigma. Highlighting the surprising finding that the human genome contains only about 32,000 genes (pre-map predictions were...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Both a public consortium of researchers and a private U.S. company successfully decoded the human genetic blueprint. In this program, Doctors Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, and J. Craig Venter, CEO of Celera Genomics, discuss the completion of the mapping of the human genome and what that achievement means for the future of medicine. Initial discoveries indicate that the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Could the trauma of a terrorist attack change the genetic characteristics of one's descendants? This program examines the emerging science of epigenetics, which studies biological heredity unrelated to DNA sequencing. With commentary from leading scientists in the field-including geneticist Marcus Pembrey, among the first to observe that dietary stress can produce health problems two...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Claybourne, Anna
Summary: This book takes you deep inside a cell to see where genes are found and goes behind the headlines to explain cloning, gene therapy, the human genome, DNA testing, GM foods, genetic engineering and much more.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 572 CLASummary: Assume, for the sake of argument, that our species has created everything it needs-all the comfort and protection that technology can provide. Does that mean our biological evolution has come to an end? Not necessarily, says anatomist and anthropologist Alice Roberts. In fact, technology may be driving human evolution, and at breakneck speed. Dr. Roberts meets scientists who are detecting and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Genetically speaking, only half a percent's difference separates any two human beings in the world, less of a difference than that between any two chimpanzees or gorillas. In this program, Robert Krulwich, the engaging science correspondent for ABC News, joins Eric Lander, professor at MIT's Whitehead Institute, to provide a concise look at the results of the Human Genome Project, a fascinating...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008