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(0)Nessa Carey
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Epigenetics can potentially revolutionize our understanding of the structure and behavior of biological life on Earth. It explains why mapping an organism's genetic code is not enough to determine how it develops or acts and shows how nurture combines with nature to engineer biological diversity. Surveying the twenty-year history of the field while also highlighting its latest findings and innovations, this volume provides a readily understandable...
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An exploration of the once-ignored portion of our DNA and the role it plays in our bodies, from the author of The Epigenetics Revolution.
For decades after the identification of the structure of DNA, scientists focused only on genes, the regions of the genome that contain codes to produce proteins. Other regions that make up 98 percent of the human genome were dismissed as "junk," sequences that serve no purpose. But researchers have recently discovered...
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Icon Books Ltd
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2020.
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Just 45 years ago, the age of gene modification was born. But GM is rapidly being supplanted by a new system called CRISPR or 'gene editing'. Scientists can now manipulate the genes of almost any organism with a degree of precision, ease and speed unthinkable only ten years ago. We can edit wheat genes to exclude the proteins that cause gluten intolerance. We can breed mosquitoes with a 'suicide gene' that kills their offspring before they can pass...