Author: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1328
Book Description
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Author: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1328
Book Description
(Sackler NAS Colloquium) Frontiers of Bioinformatics
Author: Samuel KarlinPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309181984
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
The Effects of Over-expressing the Proteins of the DnaA Operon in Wild-type and Mutant Escherichia Coli Cells
Author: Aline V. GrigorianPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bacterial proteins
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Tempo and Mode in Evolution
Author: for the National Academy of SciencesPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309552672
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Since George Gaylord Simpson published Tempo and Mode in Evolution in 1944, discoveries in paleontology and genetics have abounded. This volume brings together the findings and insights of today's leading experts in the study of evolution, including Ayala, W. Ford Doolittle, and Stephen Jay Gould. The volume examines early cellular evolution, explores changes in the tempo of evolution between the Precambrian and Phanerozoic periods, and reconstructs the Cambrian evolutionary burst. Long-neglected despite Darwin's interest in it, species extinction is discussed in detail. Although the absence of data kept Simpson from exploring human evolution in his book, the current volume covers morphological and genetic changes in human populations, contradicting the popular claim that all modern humans descend from a single woman. This book discusses the role of molecular clocks, the results of evolution in 12 populations of Escherichia coli propagated for 10,000 generations, a physical map of Drosophila chromosomes, and evidence for "hitchhiking" by mutations.
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Author: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Gene Drives on the Horizon
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309437873
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Research on gene drive systems is rapidly advancing. Many proposed applications of gene drive research aim to solve environmental and public health challenges, including the reduction of poverty and the burden of vector-borne diseases, such as malaria and dengue, which disproportionately impact low and middle income countries. However, due to their intrinsic qualities of rapid spread and irreversibility, gene drive systems raise many questions with respect to their safety relative to public and environmental health. Because gene drive systems are designed to alter the environments we share in ways that will be hard to anticipate and impossible to completely roll back, questions about the ethics surrounding use of this research are complex and will require very careful exploration. Gene Drives on the Horizon outlines the state of knowledge relative to the science, ethics, public engagement, and risk assessment as they pertain to research directions of gene drive systems and governance of the research process. This report offers principles for responsible practices of gene drive research and related applications for use by investigators, their institutions, the research funders, and regulators.
Preparing for Future Products of Biotechnology
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309452058
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Between 1973 and 2016, the ways to manipulate DNA to endow new characteristics in an organism (that is, biotechnology) have advanced, enabling the development of products that were not previously possible. What will the likely future products of biotechnology be over the next 5â€"10 years? What scientific capabilities, tools, and/or expertise may be needed by the regulatory agencies to ensure they make efficient and sound evaluations of the likely future products of biotechnology? Preparing for Future Products of Biotechnology analyzes the future landscape of biotechnology products and seeks to inform forthcoming policy making. This report identifies potential new risks and frameworks for risk assessment and areas in which the risks or lack of risks relating to the products of biotechnology are well understood.
Frontiers of Bioinformatics
Author: Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309100291
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
Mapping our genes : the genome projects : how big, how fast?
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 142892258X
Category : Gene mapping
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Evolution
Author: James Alan ShapiroPublisher: Pearson Education
ISBN: 0132780933
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
This book proposes an important new paradigm for understanding biological evolution. Shapiro demonstrates why traditional views of evolution are inadequate to explain the latest evidence, and presents an alternative. His information- and systems-based approach integrates advances in symbiogenesis, epigenetics, and saltationism, and points toward an emerging synthesis of physical, information, and biological sciences.