Tagged: Genetics & Genomics

The Hope, Hype, and Reality of Genetic Engineering : Remarkable Stories From Agriculture, Industry, Medicine, and the Environment

An introductory tour into the stranger-than-fiction world of genetic engineering, a scientific realm inhabited by eager researchers intent upon fashioning a prodigious medley of genetically modified (GM) organisms to serve human needs.

When a Gene Makes You Smell Like a Fish : …and Other Amazing Tales About the Genes in Your Body

From the gene that causes people to age prematurely to the’bitter gene’that may spawn broccoli haters, this book explores a few of the more exotic locales on the human genome, highlighting some of the tragic and bizarre ways our bodies go wrong when genes fall prey to mutation and the curious ways in which genes have evolved for our survival.