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The epigenetics revolution : how modern biology is writing our understanding of genetics, disease and inheritance / Nessa Carey.

By: Carey, Nessa [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Icon, 2012Copyright date: ©2011Description: [ix], 339 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781848313477 (paperback).Subject(s): Genes | DNA -- Analysis | Cells | Genetic code | I WISH Foundation Women's STEM ProjectDDC classification: 616.042
Contents:
An ugly toad and an elegant man -- How we learned to roll uphill -- Life as we knew it -- Life as we know it now -- Why aren't identical twins actually identical? -- The sins of the fathers -- The generation game -- The battle of the senses -- Generation X -- The message is not the medium -- Fighting the enemy within -- All in the mind -- The downhill slope -- Long live the queen -- The green revolution -- The ways ahead.
List(s) this item appears in: I WISH Foundation Women's STEM Project Collection

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The most important revolution in modern biology - and what it means for humanity.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-324) and index.

An ugly toad and an elegant man -- How we learned to roll uphill -- Life as we knew it -- Life as we know it now -- Why aren't identical twins actually identical? -- The sins of the fathers -- The generation game -- The battle of the senses -- Generation X -- The message is not the medium -- Fighting the enemy within -- All in the mind -- The downhill slope -- Long live the queen -- The green revolution -- The ways ahead.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Nessa Carey has a PhD in virology from the University of Edinburgh and has worked in the biotech industry for nearly ten years.