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5) Amazing DNA
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Provides information on DNA and how if affects our physical characteristics.
7) The DNA book
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It s inside every living plant and animal, from the tiniest seed to the person standing next to you, but how much do you know about DNA? This book gives children an in-depth look at DNA and its role in all living things from why we have different-colored eyes to why we age.
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"The DNA Restart turns traditional dietary advice on its head with groundbreaking research that demonstrates that we all require different diets based on our genes. In The DNA Restart, Sharon Moalem, MD, PhD, provides a revolutionary step-by-step guide to the diet and lifestyle perfect for your individual genetic makeup. A physician, scientist, neurogeneticist, and New York Times bestselling author, Dr. Moalem has spent the last two decades researching...
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When two strangers are linked by a mail-in DNA test, it's an answered prayer-- that is, for one half-sister. For the other, it will dismantle everything she knows to be true. But as they step into the unfamiliar realm of sisterhood, the roles will reverse in ways no one could have foreseen. Caroline lives a full, happy life-- thriving career, three feisty children, enviable marriage, and a close-knit extended family. She couldn't have scripted it...
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We can change the world with gene editing-but should we?
CRISPR stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats. If it sounds complicated, it is-but it's also one of the most powerful ways we can shape the future. And it's poised to completely upend the way we think about science.
Author Yolanda Ridge tackles this topic in a friendly and accessible tone, with two introductory chapters covering the basics of DNA and gene editing...
17) Fortune: a novel
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"One drop of blood for a chance at a multimillion-dollar windfall. Is it a philanthropic gesture from a billionaire widow? Some suspect a darker motive behind the DNA lottery--one tied to the eighteen-year-old mystery of an infant's unidentified remains that mars the history of idyllic Rosemary Hills, Iowa. Right after the blood lottery is announced, three local women fall under suspicion of knowing something about that night, and their carefully...
19) Cells
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Bill Nye talks about the cell as the basic unit of creatures, and explains DNA.
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Jurassic Park meets The Sixth Extinction in Rise of the Necrofauna, a provocative look at de-extinction from acclaimed documentarist and science writer Britt Wray.
A New Yorker "The Books We Loved in 2017" Selection
A Science News Favorite Book of 2017
A Sunday Times "Must Read"
What happens when you try to recreate a woolly mammoth—fascinating science,
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