Search Results: Genetics from UHR Books

Philadelphia and Toronto: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1967 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Examines the recent data pertaining to the polymorphisms as related to the advances in immunogenetics. Clarifies and classifies the language, methodology, and current information about the many variations of the plasma proteins, isoenzymes, and red cell, white cell and platelet antigens..

Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews, Inc., 1993 Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. First Edition. 996 page volume of review articles in the field of microbiology, covering also cytology, bacteriology, virology, genetics, molecular biology, etc..

New York: Random House, 1989 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. A rare publisher's review copy, with information and card inserted. Some scuffs and edge wear on dust jacket; book smells a bit musty. A novel. 360 pages..

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1969 Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. First Edition. Reviews the most important parts of the history of cellular and reproductive biology, and in the understanding of the mechanisms of heredity and the role of DNA. Nicely illustrated with several in color. Dust jacket has minor rubs..

Philadelphia & London: W. B. Saunders Co., 1953 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Notes that bacterial genetics "represents one of the most recent examples of such scientfic cross-fertilization from which a subject with real hybrid vigor ahs evolved". Covers general principles, the evolution of bacterial genetics, its cytological basis, mutation, mutagenesis, types of mutants, population changes due to mutation and selection, recombination in bacteria, and more. Illustrated. Light edgewear..

NY and Cleveland: The World Publishing Co, 1968 Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. First Edition, Second Printing. Examines such issues as the newer techniques related to reproduction - artificial insemination, the storage of eggs and sperms, "test-tube" babies, etc; the quest for eternal youth, genetic engineering, the creation of life, etc..

St Louis, MO: The C. V. Mosby Co., 1969 Ex-Library. Very Good -. Hardcover. Second Printing. Written as a single-semester undergraduate course in genetics, addressing the central and unifying position of genetics in the biological sciences and current concepts in genetics. With 219 illustrations. Light edgewear; some highlighting/underlining in text..

NY: The National Foundation - March of Dimes, 1965 Book. Very Good +. Soft cover. Original Edition. From a symposium held at Cornell University Medical College, March 19, 1965 "to dedicate the new program of human genetics in the Department of Pediatrics". Addresses the study of genetics in man, embryologic considerations, the future of mammalian cell genetics, genetics and evolution in three human serum proteins, the chromosomes, and the application of knowledge..

NY and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997 Book. Near Fine. Paperback. First Paperback Edition. Discusses "the human genome project and the quest to discover our genetic heritage". The authors assert "that when we learn how to read DNA's pages and chapters, we will obtain the information relevant to the understanding of most diseases, individual differences in behavior, and a new awareness of our own history and evolution". Illustrated..

NY: Alan R. Liss, Inc., 1976 Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. First Edition. Contains 19 presentations from the 1975 Birth Defects Conference of the National Foundation of the March of Dimes, held in Kansas City, MO, which had the central focus on cancer and genetics. Several contributing authors. Illustrated..

Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas Publisher, 1959 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Explains the fundamentals of the chemical basis for heredity, being comprehensive without being complicated. Dust jacket has minor edge chips, light soils..

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1963 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Discusses the chromosomes in cell division, the chromosomes in heredity, the chromosomes in development, and the chromosomes in evolution. Illustrated. Minor wear..

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1968 Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. Second Printing. Written by a clinical pediatrician, this book covers the chromosome disorders. Chapters are on the cell and its chromosomes, normal cell division, abnormal chromosomes, dermal ridge patterns, autosomal abnormalities, sex chromosome anomalies, etc. Illustrated..

San Diego, CA: Lucent Books, Inc., 2000 Ex-Library. Very Good +. Hardcover. First Edition. Discusses cloning in agriculture, medicine, cloning of endangered species, cloning of human beings, the ethics involved, and the regulations. Illustrated, 112 pages..

Boston: Harvard University Press, 1928 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Volume III of these "contributions" from Harvard's Bussey Institution of Applied Biology. Voluminous work of 38 "contributions" on research in the field of genetics, illustrated. Each of the publications contained is focused on the genetics of plants of various kinds. Inked word "love" on flyleaf, binding has minor wear/fading; interior is very good..

NY, Toronto, and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1964 Ex-Library. Illus. by Jauss, Anne Marie. Very Good -. Hardcover. Second Printing. Explores DNA - within the cell, as the ladder of life, as the mother molecule, and the genetic code of life, DNA and RNA, mutations, DNA and disease, etc. Looks to be written for high school level reading. Illustrated. Light exterior wear..

Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2000 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. SIGNED by author Parson on the flyleaf. Tanzi, the neurogeneticist from Massachusetts General Hospital, and Parson, science writer, "provide an unparalleled eyewitness account of the promise and peril of 21st-century genetics". Illustrated..

London: The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1978 Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. A collection of papers describing the latest developments in the field of detection and treatment of neurall tube defects before birth. Illustrated. Binding slightly cocked. Minor edgewear..

Washington, D.C.: Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1970 Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. Original Edition. The proceedings from the symposium on the scientific and ethical considerations related to early diagnosis of human genetic defects, sponsored by the John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences, held at NIH in Bethesda, MD in May, 1970. Illustrated. Fogarty International Center Proceedings No. 6..

NY, Evanston, San Francisco and London: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1971 Ex-Library. Very Good. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Introductory text to the field of medical genetics, based on lectures presented at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the Universite de Sherbrooke Faculte de Medecine during the previous 10 years. With 76 illustrations. Boards bowed; rub-type soils..