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Gene discovery for disease models

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : gene discovery-from positional cloning to genomic cloning -- High throughput gene expression analysis and the identification of expression QTLs -- DNA methylation in the pathogenesis of autoimmunity -- Ccell-based analysis with microfluidic chip -- Missing dimension : protein turnover rate measurement in gene discovery -- Bioinformatics tools for the prediction of gene function -- Determination of genomic locations of targeted genetic loci -- Mutation discovery using high throughput mutation screening technology -- Candidate screening through gene expression profile -- Candidate screening through high-density SNP array -- Gene discovery through direct genome sequencing -- Candidate screening through bioinformatics tools -- Using an integrative strategy to identify mutations -- Determination of the function of a mutant in a gene -- Confirmation of a mutation by multiple molecular approaches -- Confirmation of a mutation by microRNA -- Confirmation of function of a gene by translational approaches -- Confirmation of single nucleotide mutations -- Initial identification and confirmation of a QTL gene -- Gene discovery of crop diseases in the post genome era -- Impact of whole genome genetic element analysis on gene discovery of disease models -- Impact of whole genome protein analysis on gene discovery of disease models.…”
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Gene discovery for disease models

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : gene discovery-from positional cloning to genomic cloning -- High throughput gene expression analysis and the identification of expression QTLs -- DNA methylation in the pathogenesis of autoimmunity -- Ccell-based analysis with microfluidic chip -- Missing dimension : protein turnover rate measurement in gene discovery -- Bioinformatics tools for the prediction of gene function -- Determination of genomic locations of targeted genetic loci -- Mutation discovery using high throughput mutation screening technology -- Candidate screening through gene expression profile -- Candidate screening through high-density SNP array -- Gene discovery through direct genome sequencing -- Candidate screening through bioinformatics tools -- Using an integrative strategy to identify mutations -- Determination of the function of a mutant in a gene -- Confirmation of a mutation by multiple molecular approaches -- Confirmation of a mutation by microRNA -- Confirmation of function of a gene by translational approaches -- Confirmation of single nucleotide mutations -- Initial identification and confirmation of a QTL gene -- Gene discovery of crop diseases in the post genome era -- Impact of whole genome genetic element analysis on gene discovery of disease models -- Impact of whole genome protein analysis on gene discovery of disease models.…”
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Streptomyces in nature and medicine the antibiotic makers / by Hopwood, D. A.

Table of Contents: “…Actinomycetes and antibiotics -- Antibiotic discovery and resistance -- Microbial sex -- Towards gene cloning -- From chromosome map to DNA sequence -- Bacteria that develop -- The switch to antibiotic production -- Unnatural natural products -- Functional genomics -- Genomics against tuberculosis and leprosy.…”
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Streptomyces in nature and medicine the antibiotic makers / by Hopwood, D. A.

Table of Contents: “…Actinomycetes and antibiotics -- Antibiotic discovery and resistance -- Microbial sex -- Towards gene cloning -- From chromosome map to DNA sequence -- Bacteria that develop -- The switch to antibiotic production -- Unnatural natural products -- Functional genomics -- Genomics against tuberculosis and leprosy.…”
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Aliens adored Rael's UFO religion / by Palmer, Susan J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: How I researched the Raelians -- Contactee prophets in the history of UFOlogy -- The last and fastest prophet -- On how to construct a new religion -- Mutating the millennium -- A visit to the court of Raël -- Sexy angels for amorous aliens -- "Enemies within!" -- Cloning around-hoax or heresy? -- "Science is our religion".…”
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Aliens adored Rael's UFO religion / by Palmer, Susan J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: How I researched the Raelians -- Contactee prophets in the history of UFOlogy -- The last and fastest prophet -- On how to construct a new religion -- Mutating the millennium -- A visit to the court of Raël -- Sexy angels for amorous aliens -- "Enemies within!" -- Cloning around-hoax or heresy? -- "Science is our religion".…”
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The politically incorrect guide to science by Bethell, Tom

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the lures of politics -- Global warming -- Yes, more nukes -- Good vibes: radiation hormesis -- "Good chemistry" -- The DDT ban -- Biodiversity and endangered species -- African AIDS: a political epidemic -- The folly of Dolly: cloning and its discontents -- The stem cell challenge to bioengineering -- A map to nowhere -- The great cancer error -- The abiding myths: flat earth and warfare between science and religion -- By chance, or by design? …”
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The politically incorrect guide to science by Bethell, Tom

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the lures of politics -- Global warming -- Yes, more nukes -- Good vibes: radiation hormesis -- "Good chemistry" -- The DDT ban -- Biodiversity and endangered species -- African AIDS: a political epidemic -- The folly of Dolly: cloning and its discontents -- The stem cell challenge to bioengineering -- A map to nowhere -- The great cancer error -- The abiding myths: flat earth and warfare between science and religion -- By chance, or by design? …”
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Genetic engineering by Herring, Mark Youngblood, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…: public perceptions of genetic engineering -- History of genetic engineering from Mendel to (genome) maps -- Splicing, dicing, and cloning to Asilomar and beyond -- Frankenfood or Miracle-gro? …”
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How to be a Christian in a brave new world / by Tada, Joni Eareckson

Table of Contents: “…Part I: The brave new world -- Starting out -- The brave new world -- Wonderfully made -- The better babies story -- Part II: Designing our babies -- Quality control -- Baby cloning -- Designer babies -- Part III: Treating people like things -- Human harvest -- The color of your genes -- A new slavery -- Faking life -- Part IV: So what can we do? …”
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Genetic engineering by Herring, Mark Youngblood, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…: public perceptions of genetic engineering -- History of genetic engineering from Mendel to (genome) maps -- Splicing, dicing, and cloning to Asilomar and beyond -- Frankenfood or Miracle-gro? …”
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The science of Michael Crichton an unauthorized exploration into the real science behind the fictional worlds of Michael Crichton /

Table of Contents: “…The Andromeda strain / Sergio Pistoi -- Virtual reality and man-machine interface in Disclosure and The terminal man / Ray Kurzweil -- Shock to the system / Steven Gulie -- Neanderthals and wendols / Ian Tattersall -- Primate behavior and misbehavior in Michael Crichton's Congo / Dario Maestripieri -- We still can't clone dinosaurs / Sandy Becker -- Crichton travels in time / Joel Shurkin -- Be afraid. …”
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The science of Michael Crichton an unauthorized exploration into the real science behind the fictional worlds of Michael Crichton /

Table of Contents: “…The Andromeda strain / Sergio Pistoi -- Virtual reality and man-machine interface in Disclosure and The terminal man / Ray Kurzweil -- Shock to the system / Steven Gulie -- Neanderthals and wendols / Ian Tattersall -- Primate behavior and misbehavior in Michael Crichton's Congo / Dario Maestripieri -- We still can't clone dinosaurs / Sandy Becker -- Crichton travels in time / Joel Shurkin -- Be afraid. …”
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Cottonwood and the river of time on trees, evolution, and society / by Stettler, R. F. (Reinhard Friedrich), 1929-

Table of Contents: “…-- 2: Variation and variability -- Clones -- Why sex? -- Password? -- Natural hybridization -- 3: From species to population to genes -- Common gardens -- Transplanted trees -- Getting closer to the genes -- Migrant trees -- Adaptation and its limits -- 4: Trees and society -- Changing rivers--changing landscapes -- The dawn of agriculture -- The farmer's trees -- From farmers' trees to tree farms -- Poplar--a model tree -- Tree genomics and beyond -- Between old growth and plantations -- The essence of trees -- Outlook.…”
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Cottonwood and the river of time on trees, evolution, and society / by Stettler, R. F. (Reinhard Friedrich), 1929-

Table of Contents: “…-- 2: Variation and variability -- Clones -- Why sex? -- Password? -- Natural hybridization -- 3: From species to population to genes -- Common gardens -- Transplanted trees -- Getting closer to the genes -- Migrant trees -- Adaptation and its limits -- 4: Trees and society -- Changing rivers--changing landscapes -- The dawn of agriculture -- The farmer's trees -- From farmers' trees to tree farms -- Poplar--a model tree -- Tree genomics and beyond -- Between old growth and plantations -- The essence of trees -- Outlook.…”
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Rereading Heterosexuality : Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction / by Carroll, Rachel

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 4 Unauthorised reproduction: class, pregnancy and transgressive female heterosexuality in Alan Warner's Morvern CallarPart Three: Reproducing heterosexuality; Chapter 5 'First one thing and then the other': rewriting the intersexed body in Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex; Chapter 6 Imitations of life: cloning, heterosexuality and the human in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Rereading Heterosexuality : Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction / by Carroll, Rachel

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 4 Unauthorised reproduction: class, pregnancy and transgressive female heterosexuality in Alan Warner's Morvern CallarPart Three: Reproducing heterosexuality; Chapter 5 'First one thing and then the other': rewriting the intersexed body in Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex; Chapter 6 Imitations of life: cloning, heterosexuality and the human in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Contemporary debates in bioethics

Table of Contents: “…-- Were it physically safe, would human reproductive cloning be acceptable? -- Is the deliberately induced abortion of a human pregnancy ethically justifiable? …”
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Contemporary debates in bioethics

Table of Contents: “…-- Were it physically safe, would human reproductive cloning be acceptable? -- Is the deliberately induced abortion of a human pregnancy ethically justifiable? …”
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Medicine, health care, & ethics Catholic voices /

Table of Contents: “…O'Rourke -- Genetic enhancement as freedom of choice : the myth / Catherine Green -- Stem cells, cloning, and the human person / John F. Morris -- Health care reform : justice and the common good / Clarke E. …”
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