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1) Intervention
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Bestselling author Robin Cook returns with another ripped-from-the- headlines thriller, as New York City medical detective Jack Stapleton investigates the promises-and deadly risks-of alternative medicine and is led deep into the heart of a religious conspiracy...
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"At the start of 2020, Moderna was a waning biotech unicorn, still years away from delivering its first product despite a decade of development of a potentially breakthrough innovation: using RNA to combat disease. Investors were getting antsy or, worse,skeptical. Then the coronavirus pandemic hit, and Moderna became a central player in a global drama-a David to pharma's Goliaths-turning its technology toward breaking the global grip of the terrible...
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In 1989, Francis Fukuyama made his now-famous pronouncement that because "the major alternatives to liberal democracy had exhausted themselves," history as we knew it had reached its end. Ten years later, he revised his argument: we hadn't reached the end of history, he wrote, because we hadn't yet reached the end of science. Arguing that our greatest advances still to come will be in the life sciences, Fukuyama now asks how the ability to modify...
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Finally: After 250 years, a solution to this intriguing and important phenomena of osmosis has been found. Many other solutions have been proposed, no others fully explain the process and the many applications. This book introduces a new understanding of osmosis, solids, liquids, and vapor pressure and more... For those that already understand osmosis, we suggest that you begin with the last chapter. The first chapters may sound like heresy. For others,...
6) Biofiltros
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Un biofiltro es un sistema en el que las aguas residuales se depuran por procesos naturales. En este libro aprenderá,s a preparar un biofiltro doméstico de una manera sencilla.
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El lugar donde habitamos no está formado solo de imágenes espacio temporales, sino de vida sintética. La percepción humana se ha transformado por una inmersión que tiene lugar en diferentes organismos artificiales, lo que permite la experimentación en entornos conformados por especies nuevas que interactúan entre ellas y con nosotros. Estos son los mundos bioinmersivos, que proceden de la intersección entre los mundos virtuales y la vida artificial...
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A shocking exposé of the reckless proliferation of bio-weapon research and the threat this poses to everyday Americans.
Battling a new generation of corporate giants and uncovering threats right in our own backyard, Kenneth King's Germs Gone Wild reveals the massive expansion of America's bio-defense research labs and the culture of deception surrounding hundreds of facilities that have opened since 9/11.
King experienced the menace of bio-defense...
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Elizabeth Anne Montgomery (Beth) MD, Biochemist PHD Stefani Marie Graham (Tessa), MD, Biochemist PHD James Christopher Jurez (Chris), MD, Biochemist PHD were selected from a nationwide search for the top scores in tests that were given in the United States. These three gifted students (among the top 50) were educated by the government, and sent to the best Universities in their area. They were now graduated, and immediately sent to their destination,...
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Con este trabajo, el autor ha querido mostrar la importante distorsión que hay sobre los cultivos transgénicos entre aquello que dice la comunidad científica, avalado por datos, y aquello que opina la sociedad en general, donde se ha impuesto una imagen completamente contraria. El objetivo de la obra es abordar los mitos y leyendas sobre los transgénicos y aportar argumentos con rigor científico. La cultura científica de la sociedad, la implicación...
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This universal energy field is available to all of us. You too can harness the ability to heal using these techniques. His dream is for all people to know that they have healing abilities that go beyond what medical institutions can offer. Anushavan Manukyan practices and teaches bioenergy healing in Los Angeles.
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Dive into the Future of Feasting: Where Science Meets Your Dinner Plate
Prepare to be transported to a future where dinner grows in a lab, not a field. "Cultivated Cuisine: The Future of Lab-Grown Meat" offers a cutting-edge exploration of the revolutionary world of cellular agriculture. Attention: The book takes a thrilling plunge into the complexities of lab-grown meat, examining its scientific origins, environmental implications, and potential...
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For a quarter of a century, the Council for Responsible Genetics has provided a unique historical lens into the modern history, science, ethics, and politics of genetic technologies. Since 1983, the Council has had leading scientists, activists, science writers, and public health advocates researching and reporting on a broad spectrum of issues, including genetically engineered foods, biological weapons, genetic privacy and discrimination, reproductive...
14) Axiom
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A man with a dream of human evolution unlocks the ability via biotechnology, and opens the door to living nightmares instead. How can humanity survive when some are more human than others? Axiom is a story of science and technology and the reality of humanity, it is a work of fiction within the scope of possibility. It is a mirror to our society.
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Experts agree that we are entering the Golden Age of Medicine, when our everyday experience of being ill and getting better will be more like science fiction than today's routine trip to the doctor.
Bill Hanson, director of the surgical intensive care unit at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and an inventor of medical technology, offers true-life and intensely intimate stories about the way biotechnology is changing people's lives.
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Cuando este libro apareció por primera vez, en 2005, el encuentro entre la industria y las ciencias biológicas era tan novedoso y tan reciente que el título mismo ("Bio... ¿qué?") se hacía eco del asombro ante ese acontecimiento. Pero en tan sólo una década, la biotecnología avanzó a pasos de gigante (y de bacteria, y de virus), y transformó los sectores productivos y económicos en todo el mundo generando una nueva revolución industrial.
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Jenna Fox chronicles volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
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In the not-so-distant future, when synthetic bodies and brains are possible but illegal, Jenna Fox, who is recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.
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Genetic engineering involves the deliberate modification of the characteristics of an organism by manipulating its genetic material. This allows modern scientists to shape characteristics of living things. This technology offers many positives, including the possibility of enabling people to live longer, or creating productive strains of grain or fruit that can feed greater numbers of people. However, some people are concerned about the Frankenstein-like...
19) Upgrade: a novel
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"Ramsay can feel his brain changing--and his body, too. He's becoming something other than himself. Maybe even something other than human. As he sets out to discover who did this to him, and why, his transformation threatens everything: his family, his job, even his freedom. Because the truth of what's happened to him is more disturbing than he could possibly imagine. His DNA has been rewritten with a genetic-engineering breakthrough beyond anything...
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History has already progressed through an agricultural revolution, an industrial revolution, and an information revolution. The Neuro Revolution foretells a fast approaching fourth epoch, one that will radically transform how we all work, live and play.
Neurotechnology-brain imaging and other new tools for both understanding and influencing our brains-is accelerating the pace of change almost everywhere, from financial markets to law enforcement...
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