Genetic Engineering

Six new chapters on vital topics of interest such as multilocus SNP genotyping (SNP chips), RNAi, ChIP-chip, and genomic tiling arrays New edition...

Die Genetik ist eines der naturwissenschaftlichen Fachgebiete, deren Wissen am schnellsten wächst und deren Erkenntnisse ständig in Bewegung und in...

The long-awaited revision of the industry standard on phylogenetics Since the publication of the first edition of this landmark volume more than t...

They mastermind our lives, shaping our features, our health, and our behavior, even in the sacrosanct realms of love and sex, religion, aging, and ...

Human cloning is a prospect the contributors to Clones and Clones view with varying degrees of alarm, calm, ambivalence, and not a little humor. Ra...

The Human Genome Project, the most ambitious biological research program ever undertaken, was born in controversy. Heralded by its more enthusiasti...

Genetic engineering has quickly become one of the more controversial issues of our time. Herring provides a detailed history of the debate in a fai...

What will our lives be like fifty years from now? What will we know about ourselves as humans, and how will that affect our lives? It's impossible ...

Explore the late 20th-century history and development of plant, animal, and human genetics in this collection of 135 documents. Included are sample...

In this comparative study of the development of regulatory policy for genetic engineering in the United States and the United Kingdom, the author a...

Arguing that human evolution has come to a stand-still, this book sets out to explore the evolutionary steps that have defined life on this planet....

Today we are developing a science that could change the world - for good or ill - more quickly and more profoundly than ever before. The science of...

Efforts to improve food security in the developing world have been hampered due to myths surrounding GM agriculture. This book explores the theory,...

Efforts to improve food security in the developing world have been hampered due to myths surrounding GM agriculture. This book explores the theory,...

Technology for modifying the genotypes and phenotypes of insects and other arthropods has steadily progressed with the development of more precise ...

Explore and advance bioinformatics and systems biology tools for crop breeding programs in this practical resource for researchers Plant biology an...