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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author draws on his scientific knowledge and research to describe the magisterial history of a scientific idea, the quest to decipher the master-code of instructions that makes and defines humans; that governs our form, function, and fate; and that determines the future of our children. The story of the gene begins in earnest in an obscure Augustinian abbey in Moravia in 1856 where Gregor Mendel, a monk working with pea...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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"Eight-year-old Corey Haas was nearly blind from a hereditary disorder when his sight was restored through a delicate procedure that made medical history. Like something from a science fiction novel, doctors carefully injected viruses bearing healing genes into the DNA of Corey's eyes--a few days later, Corey could see, his sight restored by gene therapy. THE FOREVER FIX is the first book to tell the fascinating story of gene therapy: how it works,...
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"Caroline Bragg's life has never been better. She and Brandon Lancaster are taking their relationship to the next level, and she has a new dream job as legal counsel for Praecursoria - a research lab that is making waves with its cutting-edge genetic therapies. The company's leukemia treatments even promise to save desperately sick kids - kids like eleven-year-old Bethany, a critically ill foster child at Brandon's foster home. When Caroline's enthusiastic...
6) Gene therapy
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ABDO Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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Amazing medical breakthroughs are made every day. In the past decades, medical researchers have cured diseases that were once deadly and devised new methods to heal that were once unimaginable. This title follows the development of gene therapy, including the discovery of DNA, groundbreaking discoveries and the doctors who made them, and where the science is heading in the future. Learn how gene therapy works and why future applications of the technology...
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A young molecular biologist at the forefront of HIV research, Nathalia Holt tells the historic, multilayered, and compassionate story of two patients--each known in medical literature as the Berlin Patient--and their young research-minded doctors. The backdrop is nothing less than a revolution in cultural attitudes and medical thinking. These two patients' disparate cures came twelve years apart: the first in 1996 from an experimental cancer drug,...
11) Autism
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Publisher
Rosen Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"According to the Centers for Disease Control, approximately 1 in 68 American children has autism. This book describes the autism spectrum, exploring how the various ways that this neurodevelopmental disorder can affect individuals, from difficulty with social cues to impaired communication to repetitive behaviors. In addition to learning about the treatment and diagnosis of autism, readers will discover how new research into the genetic components...
12) The gene doctors
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PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"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 revolution" -- Back of container.
13) Self, divided
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Publisher
Howling Bird Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"In 1995 John Medeiros and his identical twin brother participated in a gene therapy study in which the HIV-positive twin was infused with billions of genes from the HIV-negative twin. This memoir details, from a firsthand perspective, a time in our recent history when the world had to reckon with the emergence of a seemingly undefeatable virus. Self, Divided explores the dysfunctional yet enduring relationships that surround this pivotal moment in...
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Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
Description
"Never before in the history of medicine has mankind faced such hope and peril as those of us poised to embrace the radical medical technologies of today. Beyond Human examines the medical technologies taking shape at the nexus of computing, microelectronics, engineering, nanotechnology, cellular and gene therapies, and robotics. These technologies will dramatically transform our lives and allow us to live for hundreds of years. Yet, with these blessings...
15) Charisma
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Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Tacoma, Washington, high school junior Aislyn's extreme shyness has crippled her socially and cost her a college scholarship, so she jumps at the chance to try an illegal gene therapy, but although she is finally able to date her long-term crush, Jack, the therapy becomes a contagious disease that can be fatal.
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