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Molecular Biology in Narrative Form

Author : Priya Hays
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820486994
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book Molecular Biology in Narrative Form written by Priya Hays and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Molecular Biology in Narrative Form is a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study that shows a connection between molecular biology and French narrative theory, and, from a unique perspective, bridges the gap between two disciplines that seem mutually exclusive. With many new insights on the link between science (in the form of DNA, a set of codes) and literature (in the form of language, another set of codes), this book looks at modern experimental science within the framework of semiotics. Priya Venkatesan reveals the extraordinary parallel between the work of scientists and the work of narratologists who develop narrative paradigms and analyze literary texts. Molecular Biology in Narrative Form will be a useful resource for scientists and literary theorists interested in the epistemological workings of science, as well as, anyone that desires to explore the linkages between scientific theory and literary analysis.

Molecular Biology in Narrative Form

Author : Priya Venkatesan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Molecular Biology in Narrative Form written by Priya Venkatesan and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Molecular Biology in Narrative Form

Author : Priya Venkatesan Hays
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781453906835
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Molecular Biology in Narrative Form written by Priya Venkatesan Hays and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Molecular Biology of the Cell 6E - The Problems Book

Author : John Wilson
Publisher : Garland Science
ISBN 13 : 1317497279
Total Pages : 984 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Molecular Biology of the Cell 6E - The Problems Book written by John Wilson and published by Garland Science. This book was released on 2014-11-21 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Problems Book helps students appreciate the ways in which experiments and simple calculations can lead to an understanding of how cells work by introducing the experimental foundation of cell and molecular biology. Each chapter reviews key terms, tests for understanding basic concepts, and poses research-based problems. The Problems Book has be

Reading the Story in DNA

Author : Lindell Bromham
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading the Story in DNA written by Lindell Bromham and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story in DNA, or, What kind of information can I get from DNA? -- The immortal germline, or, How do I get DNA samples? -- We are all mutants, or, How do I identify individuals? -- Endless copies, or, How do I amplify DNA? -- Descent with modification, or, How do I detect natural selection? -- Origin of species, or, How do I align DNA sequences? -- Tree of life, or, How do I construct a phylogeny? -- Tempo and mode, or, How do I estimate molecular dates? -- You are a scientist, or, What do I do now?

Narrative Structure and Narrative Knowing in Medicine and Science

Author : Martina King
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111319970
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Narrative Structure and Narrative Knowing in Medicine and Science written by Martina King and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has become a truism that we all think in the narrative mode, both in everyday life and in science. But what does this mean precisely? Scholars tend to use the term ‘narrative’ in a broad sense, implying not only event-sequencing but also the representation of emotions, basic perceptual processes or complex analyses of data sets. The volume addresses this blind spot by using clear selection criteria: only non-fictional texts by experts are analysed through the lens of both classical and postclassical narratology – from Aristotle to quantum physics and from nineteenth-century psychiatry to early childhood psychology; they fall under various genres such as philosophical treatises, case histories, textbooks, medical reports, video clips, and public lectures. The articles of this volume examine the central but continuously shifting role that event-sequencing plays within scholarly and scientific communication at various points in history – and the diverse functions it serves such as eye witnessing, making an argument, inferencing or reasoning. Thus, they provide a new methodological framework for both literary scholars and historians of science and medicine.

A History of Molecular Biology

Author : Michel Morange
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674001695
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book A History of Molecular Biology written by Michel Morange and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day it seems the media focus on yet another new development in biology--gene therapy, the human genome project, the creation of new varieties of animals and plants through genetic engineering. These possibilities have all emanated from molecular biology. A History of Molecular Biology is a complete but compact account for a general readership of the history of this revolution. Michel Morange, himself a molecular biologist, takes us from the turn-of-the-century convergence of molecular biology's two progenitors, genetics and biochemistry, to the perfection of gene splicing and cloning techniques in the 1980s. Drawing on the important work of American, English, and French historians of science, Morange describes the major discoveries--the double helix, messenger RNA, oncogenes, DNA polymerase--but also explains how and why these breakthroughs took place. The book is enlivened by mini-biographies of the founders of molecular biology: Delbrück, Watson and Crick, Monod and Jacob, Nirenberg. This ambitious history covers the story of the transformation of biology over the last one hundred years; the transformation of disciplines: biochemistry, genetics, embryology, and evolutionary biology; and, finally, the emergence of the biotechnology industry. An important contribution to the history of science, A History of Molecular Biology will also be valued by general readers for its clear explanations of the theory and practice of molecular biology today. Molecular biologists themselves will find Morange's historical perspective critical to an understanding of what is at stake in current biological research.

Genetic Explanations

Author : Sheldon Krimsky
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674071093
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Genetic Explanations written by Sheldon Krimsky and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can genes determine which fifty-year-old will succumb to Alzheimer’s, which citizen will turn out on voting day, and which child will be marked for a life of crime? Yes, according to the Internet, a few scientific studies, and some in the biotechnology industry who should know better. Sheldon Krimsky and Jeremy Gruber gather a team of genetic experts to argue that treating genes as the holy grail of our physical being is a patently unscientific endeavor. Genetic Explanations urges us to replace our faith in genetic determinism with scientific knowledge about how DNA actually contributes to human development. The concept of the gene has been steadily revised since Watson and Crick discovered the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953. No longer viewed by scientists as the cell’s fixed set of master molecules, genes and DNA are seen as a dynamic script that is ad-libbed at each stage of development. Rather than an autonomous predictor of disease, the DNA we inherit interacts continuously with the environment and functions differently as we age. What our parents hand down to us is just the beginning. Emphasizing relatively new understandings of genetic plasticity and epigenetic inheritance, the authors put into a broad developmental context the role genes are known to play in disease, behavior, evolution, and cognition. Rather than dismissing genetic reductionism out of hand, Krimsky and Gruber ask why it persists despite opposing scientific evidence, how it influences attitudes about human behavior, and how it figures in the politics of research funding.

Narrative Science

Author : Mary S. Morgan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009008781
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Narrative Science written by Mary S. Morgan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative Science examines the use of narrative in scientific research over the last two centuries. It brings together an international group of scholars who have engaged in intense collaboration to find and develop crucial cases of narrative in science. Motivated and coordinated by the Narrative Science project, funded by the European Research Council, this volume offers integrated and insightful essays examining cases that run the gamut from geology to psychology, chemistry, physics, botany, mathematics, epidemiology, and biological engineering. Taking in shipwrecks, human evolution, military intelligence, and mass extinctions, this landmark study revises our understanding of what science is, and the roles of narrative in scientists' work. This title is also available as Open Access.

Science Fiction and Narrative Form

Author : David Roberts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350350753
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Science Fiction and Narrative Form written by David Roberts and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-23 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Establishing science fiction as its own distinct and increasingly important narrative form, this book explores how the genre challenges pervasive perceptions of society as they appear in the conventional modern novel. Inspired by, and building upon, Georg Lukács's criticism of the orthodox novel for its depiction of life as alienating and disjointed, Milner, Murphy and Roberts demonstrate that science fiction steps beyond this contemporary form to be a more constructive form of literature, one able to conceive of society as complete, integrated and well-rounded. Taking stock of three kinds of science fiction which lie outside the scope of the modern novel – theological/ ontological science fiction, the science fiction of future history and epic science fiction – this book demonstrates the genre's unique capacity to encapsulate the whole world, persons and events, things and objects in a glance, and address the motive behind the longing for meaningful totality. With reference to a vast array of works by authors such as Michel Houellebecq, Elias Canetti, Isaac Asimov, Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, Marge Piercy, Iain M. Banks, Margaret Atwood, Ursula K. Le Guin, William Gibson, Dirk C. Fleck, Philip K. Dick, George Orwell and Kazuo Ishiguro, this book offers a compelling argument for rethinking the position and potential of the science fiction novel and to challenge the way we perceive our culture.

The Search for the Gene

Author : Bruce Wallace
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501717340
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Search for the Gene written by Bruce Wallace and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Gregor Mendel's experiments on garden peas to the mammoth Human Genome Project of today—how did we get where we are in the science of genetics? In this intriguing book, Bruce Wallace examines the concept of the gene and recounts the history of genetic research, providing a concise transition from genetics to modern molecular biology.

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Author : Bruce Alberts
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780824036959
Total Pages : 1340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Molecular Biology of the Cell written by Bruce Alberts and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 1340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New edition of a text in which six researchers from leading institutions discuss what is known and what is yet to be understood in the field of cell biology. The material on molecular genetics has been revised and expanded so that it can be used as a stand-alone text. A new chapter covers pathogens, infection, and innate immunity. Topics include introduction to the cell, basic genetic mechanisms, methods, internal organization of the cell, and cells in their social context. The book contains color illustrations and charts; and the included CD-ROM contains dozens of video clips, animations, molecular structures, and high-resolution micrographs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.

Interdiscipline

Author : Petar Ramadanovic
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000471985
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Interdiscipline written by Petar Ramadanovic and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together two different discussions on the value of the humanities and a broader debate on interdisciplinary scholarship in order to propose a new way beyond current threats to the humanities. Petar Ramadanovic offers nothing short of a drastic rehaul of our approaches to literary scholarship, the humanities, and university systems. Beginning with an analysis of what is often referred to as the "crises" in the humanities, the author looks at the specifics of literary studies, but also issues around working conditions for academics. From precarity and pay conditions to peer review, the book has practical as well as theoretical implications that will resonate throughout the humanities. While most books defending the humanities emphasize the uniqueness of the subject or area, Ramadanovic does the opposite, emphasizing the need for interdisciplinarity and combined knowledge. This proposal is then fully explored through literary studies, and its potential throughout the humanities and beyond, into the sciences. Interdiscipline is not just a defense of literature and the humanities; it offers a clear and inspiring pathway forwards, drawing on all disciplines to show their cultural and social significance. The book is important reading for all scholars of literary studies, and also throughout the humanities.

Advancing Healthcare Through Personalized Medicine

Author : Priya Hays
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1315350289
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Advancing Healthcare Through Personalized Medicine written by Priya Hays and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book provides a unique perspective on the biomedical and societal implications of personalized medicine and how it will help mitigate the healthcare crisis and rein in ever-growing expenditure. It introduces the reader to underlying concepts at the heart of personalized medicine - pharmacogenomics, targeted therapies and individualized diagnosis and treatment - and shows how, with the advent of genomic technologies, clinicians will have the capability to predict and diagnose disease more efficiently. Advocating a patient-centred approach at the heart of care, this introduction to personalized medicine, the science behind it, its economic effects, its effects upon patients and its overall implications for society will be invaluable to clinicians, to healthcare providers and to patients.

Protein Crystallography

Author : Alexander Wlodawer
Publisher : Humana Press
ISBN 13 : 9781493969982
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (699 download)

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Download or read book Protein Crystallography written by Alexander Wlodawer and published by Humana Press. This book was released on 2017-06-02 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides methods for modern macromolecular crystallography, including all steps leading to crystal structure determination and analysis. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Authoritative and practical, Protein Crystallography aims to ensure successful results in the further study of this vital field.

Contextualizing Systems Biology

Author : Martin Döring
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319171062
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Contextualizing Systems Biology written by Martin Döring and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-18 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collective monograph aims at contributing to an improved understanding of the epistemic presumptions, sociocultural implications and historically backgrounds of the newly emerging and currently expanding approach of systems biology. In doing so, it offers empirically grounded, valuable and reflexive information about a paradigmatic shift in the biosciences for a wide range of scientists working in the interdisciplinary areas of systems biology, synthetic biology, molecular biology, biology, the philosophy of science, the sociology of science and scientific knowledge, science and technology studies, technology assessment and the like. The authors of this monograph share the theoretical methodological premise that science is a culturally and socially embedded practice which characterizes our culture as a scientific one and at the same time draws its innovative potential from its socio-cultural context. This dialectic relationship lies at the heart of the current development of systems biology which is conceived as a so-called successor of ‘-omics’ research and triggered by high-throughput information technologies. At the same time a need for a holistic conceptualization of complex biological processes emerges. The title Contextualizing Systems Biology suggests that this book analyzes the development and advent of systems biology from different theoretical and methodological perspectives. We investigate a variety of contexts ranging from the analysis of cognitive contexts (such as basic theoretical concepts) to regulative contexts (policies) to the concrete application of a systems biology in the socio-scientific context of a European research project. In empirically analyzing these different and interrelated layers and dimensions of systems biology, the scope of the book goes beyond present attempts to investigate the advent of new approaches in the biological sciences as it frames and assesses systems biology from an interdisciplinary and integrated perspective.

Language as a Scientific Tool

Author : Miles MacLeod
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317327497
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Language as a Scientific Tool written by Miles MacLeod and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language is the most essential medium of scientific activity. Many historians, sociologists and science studies scholars have investigated scientific language for this reason, but only few have examined those cases where language itself has become an object of scientific discussion. Over the centuries scientists have sought to control, refine and engineer language for various epistemological, communicative and nationalistic purposes. This book seeks to explore cases in the history of science in which questions or concerns with language have bubbled to the surface in scientific discourse. This opens a window into the particular ways in which scientists have conceived of and construed language as the central medium of their activity across different cultural contexts and places, and the clashes and tensions that have manifested their many attempts to engineer it to both preserve and enrich its function. The subject of language draws out many topics that have mostly been neglected in the history of science, such as the connection between the emergence of national languages and the development of science within national settings, and allows us to connect together historical episodes from many understudied cultural and linguistic venues such as Eastern European and medieval Hebrew science.