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Biomedical technology resources : a research resource directory
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Year: 1998 Publisher: Bethesda, MD : NCRR

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The politics of heredity
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ISBN: 0585091358 9780585091358 079143821X 0791438228 1438415621 Year: 1998 Publisher: Albany State University of New York Press

Affinity biosensors : techniques and protocols
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ISBN: 1280836407 9786610836406 1592594859 0896035395 Year: 1998 Volume: 7 Publisher: Totowa Humana press

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Affinity Biosensors: Protocols and Techniques is a major new work that describes how affinity biosensors are developed, constructed, and applied across the widest range of biological research. Here, scientists long-experienced with the construction and evaluation of these biosensors detail their most successful techniques and applications. The methods include protocols for affinity biosensors based on optical, electrochemical, thermal acoustic, and plasmon resonance techniques involving the use of antibodies, receptor, nucleic acids, liposomes, and eukaryotic cells. All the techniques are time-tested and sufficiently detailed to ensure robust and easily reproducible results. A companion volume, Enzyme and Microbial Biosensors: Protocols and Techniques, by Mulchandani & Rogers, concentrates on enzyme-biosensors based on potentiometric, amperometric, conductimetric, optical, and thermal transducers, as well as microbial biosensors based on amperometric and optical transducers. Clearly the optimal starting point for all graduate students, postdoctoral and senior researchers, and technicians in academia, industry, and research establishments seeking rapid entry into the field of biosensors, Affinity Biosensors: Protocols and Techniques instantly becomes today's leading reference. Its step-by-step descriptions of various affinity biosensor techniques will allow both novices and experienced investigators alike successfully to apply these powerful new tools, and thus sharply enhance their laboratories' productivity.

Life without disease : the pursuit of medical utopia.
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ISBN: 0520214676 0585041229 Year: 1998 Publisher: Berkeley University of California press

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Frankenstein's footsteps
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ISBN: 0585362033 9780585362038 0300074174 Year: 1998 Publisher: New Haven Yale University Press

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The "Frankenstein" story speaks of deep fears of biological science. Tracing the history of the development of biological science and how it has been received over two centuries, this work argues that the Frankenstein story governs much of today's debate about the new age of biotechnology. Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", a tale crafted two centuries ago "to awaken thrilling horror", is a story that speaks to deep fears and desires that lie at the heart of our responses to biological science. Tracing the history of the development of biological science and how it has been received and understood by the public over two centuries, Turney's book argues that the Frankenstein story governs much of today's debate about the onrushing new age of biotechnology. Popular images of biological science have been influenced by Mary Shelley and such literary descendants as H.G. Wells, Jack London, Karel Capek and Aldous Huxley, as well as pulp writers, journalists, essayists, filmmakers and other commentators. This book examines how these images have developed as the growth of experimental methods has created a biology with real power to control and manipulate life. Frankenstein's shadow is long, Turney finds. It has affected the debates over vivisection in Victorian Britain, early 20th-century responses to the widely advertised possibility of laboratory creation of life and controversies about test-tube babies, genetic engineering and cloning. While Frankenstein remains a vehicle for expressing our collective ambivalence about some of the defining technologies of our age, the story may have outlived its usefulness as a frame for interpreting the significance of real, as opposed to fictional, science. Recognizing the need to understand the old stories, Turney calls also for new stories - stories to help with the task of shaping and regulating the unprecedented set of possibilities biological science now offers for fashioning life to suit our own ends.

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Therapeutics --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Anthropology, Cultural --- Named Groups --- Social Problems --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Population Characteristics --- Genome --- Organization and Administration --- Genetic Structures --- Epidemiologic Methods --- Anthropology --- Phenomena and Processes --- Nucleic Acids, Nucleotides, and Nucleosides --- Technology, Industry, Agriculture --- Environment and Public Health --- Health Services Administration --- Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms --- Genetic Phenomena --- Quality of Health Care --- Chemicals and Drugs --- Embryo Research --- Risk Assessment --- Animal Experimentation --- Cloning, Organism --- History, 19th Century --- Risk --- Social Change --- Genes --- Public Opinion --- Genetic Research --- Bioethics --- Knowledge --- Attitude --- Biomedical Technology --- Chromosome Mapping --- Fertilization in Vitro --- DNA, Recombinant --- Social Control, Formal --- Biology --- Human Body --- Eugenics --- History, 20th Century 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