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"When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback, titled The Double Helix, on her bed. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When she read it on a rainy Saturday, she discovered she was right, in a way. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the building blocks of life. Even though her high...
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English
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Not since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors that they warned the world about its use. Not, that is, until 2015, when biologist Jennifer Doudna called for a worldwide moratorium on the use of the gene-editing tool CRISPR - a revolutionary new technology that she helped create - to make heritable changes in human embryos. The cheapest, simplest, most effective way of manipulating DNA ever known, CRISPR may well give us the cure...
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Pub. Date
2007
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x, 162 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
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"This book explores moral quandaries connected with the quest to perfect ourselves and our children. Michael Sandel argues that the pursuit of perfection is flawed for reasons that go beyond safety and fairness."--BOOK JACKET.
4) Splice
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Two young scientists become superstars by splicing different animal DNA to create fantastical new creatures. Ignoring legal and ethical boundaries, the scientists, who are romantically involved, introduce human DNA into their experiment and risk the dawn of a terrifying new era.
Pub. Date
2005
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1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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The day after county prosecutor Katie undergoes medical tests with a renowned gynecologist, she is called to investigate the suicide of a pregnant woman. Katie fears a serial killer is on the loose. Her partner thinks that her doctor may be the killer.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (approximately 22 hr., 1 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Where are the children: "Two children are kidnapped and held for ransom by a madman. Soon, however, the children's father begins to suspect that their mother may possibly have had something to do with the crime." -- IMDb.com
The cradle will fall: "Charged with investigating the suicide of a pregnant woman, prosecutor Kate DeMalo unwittingly becomes entangled in a complex mystery involving cheating husbands, strange doctors and murder." -- IMDb.com
Lucky...
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Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
506 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Where are the children: Nancy Harmon flees her disastrous marriage and the deaths of her two children to Cape Cod, where she marries again and starts a new family, but when her two new children disappear, the nightmare begins anew.--Where.
A Stranger is Watching: Ronald Thompson knows he never killed Nina Peterson ... yet in two days the state of Connecticut will take his life, having found him guilty via due process of law. But Thompson's death...