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"Many have hailed the widespread use of generic drugs as one of the most important public-health developments of the twenty-first century. Today, almost 90 percent of our pharmaceutical market is comprised of generics, the majority of which are manufactured overseas. We have been reassured by our doctors, our pharmacists and our regulators that generic drugs are identical to their brand-name counterparts, just less expensive. But is this really true?...
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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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"Weaving together vivid storytelling and groundbreaking science, The Body Builders explores the current revolution in human augmentation, which is helping us to triumph over the limitations and constraints we have long accepted as an inevitable part of being human."--Publisher's website.
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"Amina Khan believes that nature does it best. In Adapt, she presents fascinating examples of how nature effortlessly solves the problems that humans attempt to solve with decades worth of the latest and greatest technologies, time, and money. Humans are animals too, and animals are incredibly good at doing more with less. If a fly's eye can see without hundreds of fancy lenses, and termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning,...
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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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Get the Summary of Sally Adee's We Are Electric in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "We Are Electric" by Sally Adee delves into the historical and scientific exploration of bioelectricity. The book traces the debate between Luigi Galvani, who posited the existence of "animal electricity," and Alessandro Volta, who argued for a metallic source of electrical contractions in frog legs. Despite Galvani's initial discrediting,...
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Stephen Heywood was twenty-nine years old when he learned that he was dying of ALS -- Lou Gehrig's disease. Almost overnight his older brother, Jamie, turned himself into a genetic engineer in a quixotic race to cure the incurable. His Brother's Keeper is a powerful account of their story, as they travel together to the edge of medicine. The book brings home for all of us the hopes and fears of the new biology. In this dramatic and suspenseful narrative,...
9) 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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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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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,...
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¿Cómo la Biotecnología y la Bioinformática pueden contribuir a la Producción Animal?
Los propósitos mundiales tendientes a cumplir objetivos de producción sostenible, amigable con el medio ambiente, reduciendo las brechas de acceso a los alimentos y en la búsqueda de mejorar la calidad de vida de la humanidad generan un gran reto para los entornos de ciencia.
La biotecnología y la bioinformática son herramientas cientificas de vanguardia...
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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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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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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...
16) 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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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...
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47 leaders from across the biotechnology industry tell their stories of battling the global scourge of COVID-19.
Pandemics have killed at least a half billion people over the past two millennia. But in the age of biotechnology, humanity is no longer defenseless. The biotechnology industry is a diverse community of scientists, doctors, patients, entrepreneurs, investors, bankers, analysts and reporters, all committed to treating and curing disease....
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"Could we create a real-life superhero by changing human biology itself? The form and function of the human body, once entirely delimited by nature, are now fluid concepts thanks to recent advances in biomedical science and engineering. Professor, author, and comic book enthusiast E. Paul Zehr uses Marvel's Captain America -- an ordinary man turned into an extraordinary hero, thanks to a military science experiment -- as an entry-point to this brave...
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Ensure that your advice meetings lead to a positive outcome. Every drug development program has problems. But sometimes more difficult challenges arise. Ones which require discussion with regulatory authorities such as FDA to solve. There is one chance to get this right. One chance to provide your detailed, scientific arguments to the authority and sway them to your point of view. Success means the development program will continue on down the path...
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