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Presenting revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists, doctors, and the patients whose lives may be saved by their work, the author draws on his own experience as a researcher, doctor, and prolific reader to explore how the discovery of cells created a new kind of medicine based on the therapeutic manipulation of cells.
"From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a #1 New York Times bestseller,...
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Don Tillman, a profesor of genetics, sets up a project designed to find him the perfect wife, starting with a questionnaire that has to be adjusted a little as he goes along. Then he meets Rosie, who is everything he's not looking for in a wife, but she ends up his friend as he helps her try and find her biological father.
3) Lab girl
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2016
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IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
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Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Her first book might have been a revelatory treatise on plant life. Lab Girl is that, but it is also so much more. Because in it, Jahren also shares with us her inspiring life story, in prose that takes your breath away. Lab Girl is a book about work, about love, and about the mountains that can be moved when those two things come...
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"For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about. Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortunately, there are those among us who study pandemics and are willing to look unflinchingly at worst-case scenarios. Michael Lewis's taut and brilliant nonfiction thriller pits a band of medical visionaries against the wall of ignorance that was...
5) Subhuman
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Unit 51 novels volume 1
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2017.
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English
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THEY ARE NOT HUMAN. At a research station in Antarctica, five of the worlds top scientists have been brought together to solve one of the greatest mysteries in human history. Their subject, however, is anything but human . . . THEY ARE NOT NATURAL. Deep beneath the ice, the submerged ruins of a lost civilization hold the key to the strange mutations that each scientist has encountered across the globe: A misshapen skull in Russia. The grotesque...
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"Just what is a jackalope? Purported to be part jackrabbit and part antelope, the jackalope began as a local joke concocted by two young brothers in a small Wyoming town during the Great Depression. Their creation quickly spread around the U.S., where it now regularly appears as innumerable forms of kitsch--wall mounts, postcards, keychains, coffee mugs, shot glasses, and so on. A vast body of folk narratives has carried the jackalope's fame around...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
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In the year 2000, computers are the new superpowers. Those who control them control the world. To enforce the Net Laws, Congress creates the ultimate computer security agency within the FBI: the Net Force.
Reeling from a shattered personal life, Net Force Commander Alex Michaels is informed that top secret information from a joint Air Force—Navy venture has been accessed and downloaded. The research involves an atmospheric weapon with the capability...
Reeling from a shattered personal life, Net Force Commander Alex Michaels is informed that top secret information from a joint Air Force—Navy venture has been accessed and downloaded. The research involves an atmospheric weapon with the capability...
8) The bullet
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"After being divorced from Joe Quinn for many years, Diane Connors abruptly returns to disrupt his life by begging his current wife, Eve Duncan, to do her a favor. Diane is on the run with a secret that will not only put Eve in danger but make her choose between protecting her family and doing what is right. Diane is not Eve's favorite person. But years of animosity must be cast aside because Diane is no longer the selfish woman that Eve once knew....
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Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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An analysis of what can be learned from psychopaths incorporates advances in brain scanning and neuroscience to illustrate the scale of mental health that impacts everyone, the role of functional psychopathic behaviors in success, and the misunderstandings that impact treatments.
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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A leading cognitive neuroscience researcher challenges the myth that there is a biological distinction between male and female brains, offering scientific proof that brains are adaptable mosaics comprised of both male and female components.
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Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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For generations, we've been taught that women and men differ in profound and important ways. Women are more sensitive and emotional, whereas men are more aggressive and sexual because this or that region in a woman's brain is smaller or larger than a man's, or because women have more or less of a particular hormone. This story seems to provide us with a neat biological explanation for much of what we encounter in day-to-day life. But is it true? According...
14) Cure
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With her son's neuroblastoma in remission, New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery returns to work, only to face the case of her career: the investigation into the death of CIA agent Kevin Markham. Markham's autopsy results are inconclusive, and though it appears he's been poisoned, toxicology fails to corroborate Laurie's suspicions. She enlists the help of her husband, Jack Stapleton, and together they must race to crack the case before...
16) Protocol zero
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Berkley Books
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c2015.
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English
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A follow-up to White Plague finds bio-terror expert Joe Rush working on a secret mission in northern Alaska, where he discovers that a team of dead researchers had been infected with the world's most deadly disease.
"When authorities in Alaska receive a disturbing call from a teenage girl, their investigation leads them to discover an entire family of researchers dead. Joe Rush is called to help examine the bodies. On the surface, it looks like a...
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Blue Gemini volume 1
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Yucca Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Scott Ourecky wanted to fly he never dreamed he'd end up in a secret military space program. Based on a real secret space program, Blue Gemini combines high-altitude action with edge-of-your-seat storytelling to create a modern Cold War thriller.
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2013
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English
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Annie Parker finds out she has breast cancer, a devastating blow to a woman who's already lost her mother and sister to the same disease. Mary-Claire King is a geneticist researching the still unknown link between DNA and cancer in the wake of skeptical colleagues and funding challenges.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"What makes for a happy life, a fulfilling life? A good life? According to the directors of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest scientific study of happiness ever conducted, the answer to these questions may be closer than you realize. What makes a life fulfilling and meaningful? The simple but surprising answer is: relationships. The stronger our relationships, the more likely we are to live happy, satisfying, and overall healthier...
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Pantheon Books
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[2018]
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English
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"From the best-selling author of Subliminal and The Drunkard's Walk, a groundbreaking new look at the neuroscience of change--and how elastic thinking can help us thrive in a world changing faster than ever before. With rapid technological innovation leading the charge, today's world is transforming itself at an extraordinary and unprecedented pace. As jobs become more multifaceted, as information streams multiply, and as myriad devices place increasing...
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