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Are you color blind? Do you struggle with everyday color decisions that affect your home, work, relationships, and self-esteem? Although your situation may seem bleak if you are facing discrimination, disappointment, or displacement due to your condition, this audiobook is written as a helpful guide and uplifting reminder that color blindness does not have the final say - you do! This “How To” audiobook addresses color blind individuals and everyone who crosses their paths with uplifting, quick, and entertaining tips to help navigate and comprehend the color blind life.

Nessa Carey’s THE EPIGENETICS REVOLUTION looks at how modern biology is rewriting our understanding of genetics, disease and inheritance. At the beginning of this century, enormous progress had been made in genetics. The Human Genome Project finished sequencing human DNA. It seemed it was only...

In the new essays collected here, an interdisciplinary group of scholars asks age-old questions about the nature and well-being of humans in the context of a revolutionary new biotechnology - one that has the potential to change the genetic make-up of both existing people and future generations. Welcoming listeners who study related issues and those not yet familiar with the formal study of bioethics, the authors of these essays open up a conversation about the ethics of gene editing.

Up, Not Down Syndrome is a love letter and a map. Experience how it feels to think your life is over after having an unlovable baby. At first, the loss seems impossible to overcome. Alex becomes the author's greatest teacher. Love is stronger than fear. Everyone has gifts. The book consists of three parts: the story, the lessons that Alex taught the writer and Alex's perspective. Up, Not Down Syndrome is a promise to stay positive, no matter what: up, not down.

A New Scientist Best Book of 2020 How is it that a baboon and a blob of slime mould instinctively know what to eat for optimal health, balancing their protein, fat and carb intake in perfect proportions? In new, groundbreaking research that is transforming our understanding of nutrition, animals...

In The Lost Family, journalist Libby Copeland investigates what happens when we embark on a vast social experiment with little understanding of the ramifications. Copeland explores the culture of genealogy buffs, the science of DNA, and the business of companies like Ancestry and 23andMe, all while tracing the story of one woman, her unusual results, and a relentless methodical drive for answers that becomes a thoroughly modern genetic detective story.

Genetics, Diversity, and the Biosphere is a college introductory-level text read in a conversational manner. Within each section key words and concepts are introduced, discussed and then reviewed. The audio format allows students to make the most of their time by giving them the freedom to study by listening. Genetics, Diversity, and the Biosphere is an ideal study guide for students who need to review introductory biology including those who need to review for the MCAT, DAT, Biology GRE, and AP Biology.

A moving memoir from the mother of a child with Treacher Collins Syndrome, with a foreword by R.J. Palacio, author of Wonder For Magda Newman, normal was a goal—she wanted her son Nathaniel to be able to play on the playground, swim at the beach, enjoy the moments of childhood that are often...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE ROBBIE ROBERTSON DARTMOUTH BOOK AWARD and the EVELYN RICHARDSON NON-FICTION AWARD Previously published as Daughter of Family G Weaving together touching scenes from her family history and her own life, Ami McKay's intimate and captivating memoir captures what it...

Audio Bonus! Includes exclusive conversations with the authors! A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Brilliant and enthralling.”​ —The Wall Street Journal A paradigm-shifting book from an acclaimed Harvard Medical School scientist and one of Time’s most influential people. It’s a seemingly...

Du möchtest das Altern verlangsamen oder sogar umkehren? Du möchtest dich jung, lebendig und glücklich fühlen? Dann ist dieses Buch das Richtige für dich! Altern ist das natürlichste der Welt und, um es vorwegzunehmen, daran kann auch niemand etwas ändern. Was wir aber ändern können, ist wie wir altern. Das Altern setzt sich aus vier Teilprozessen zusammen. Dem genetischen, dem umweltbedingten, dem biochemischen und dem hormonellen Altern.

Just 45 years ago, the age of gene modification was born. Researchers could create glow-in-the-dark mice, farmyard animals producing drugs in their milk, and vitamin-enhanced rice that could prevent half a million people going blind every year. But now GM is rapidly being supplanted by a new system called CRISPR or "gene editing". Using this approach, scientists can manipulate the genes of almost any organism with a degree of precision, ease and speed that we could only dream of ten years ago.

Por qué algunas personas de 40 años se ven de 60, mientras que otras de 60 años se ven de 40? La doctora Elizabeth Blackburn descubrió un indicador biológico llamado telomerasa, la enzima que reabastece los telómeros -los extremos de los cromosomas encargados de proteger nuestro patrimonio genético.

A practical, helpful guide on how to fight back against Alzheimer’s disease—with expert medical advice and one woman’s inspiring personal journey. Jamie Tyrone was forty-nine years old when she learned by accident through genetic testing that she had a 91% chance of getting Alzheimer's...

This guide will show you how to take your health into your own hands. You will no longer sit on the sidelines - instead you can play an active and empowered role in the state of your own health. This book will help you: understand how the environment and your genes interact; learn how to use your own genetic information to your advantage; create an actionable plan based on your genomics to radically transform your health and improve your vitality; and discover how to improve your health span and lead a productive, happy, and healthy life.

Did you know that about 10,000 years ago humans went through a radical change in lifestyle in what is now called the Agricultural Revolution? While this event propelled humans out of the stone age and into civilization it also ultimately catapulted us into our current way of life and into the chronic disease epidemic we have today. Western medicine sees our epidemic of disease as a problem that needs to be suppressed, but our chronic disease epidemic is really a symptom.

Health-Wealth for You: 11 Steps to Save Big & Live Healthy teaches individuals and families a series of measurable money-saving tactics that will reduce spending on health care. Dr. Luke, a long-time hospital CEO, simplifies 11 proven steps that Americans can take to reduce health-care spending and improve access to doctors and other providers.

The diaries of a remarkable young woman who was determined to live a meaningful and happy life despite her struggle with cystic fibrosis and a rare superbug—from age fifteen to her death at the age of twenty-five—the inspiration for the original streaming documentary Salt in My Soul “An...

Wie hat die Biologie Sie zu dem wunderbaren Menschen gemacht, der Sie ohne Zweifel sind? Tragen Sie selbst die Verantwortung für Ihre Persönlichkeit und Intelligenz? Oder können Sie die Schuld jemand anderem zuschieben? Das neue Hörbuch von Science-Slam-Europameister Martin Moder entführt uns in die Naturwissenschaft der Zukunft - und klärt dabei spielerisch die bedeutendsten Fragen. Wie wird man weniger blöd? Kann man Weicheier zu Alphatieren machen, indem man ihnen ins Gehirn leuchtet? Wie wird ein Sesselfurzer zum muskelbepackten Adonis, ohne auch nur aufstehen zu müssen?

Che cos'è la sindrome di Down, perché può nascere un bambino con la trisomia 21, e come aiutarlo a crescere fino a farne una persona autonoma e integrata nel mondo della scuola e del lavoro? Il volume, dedicato a genitori, insegnanti, operatori, ripercorre la storia di vita delle persone con sindrome Down e della loro famiglia.