Published December, 2010
By A. Lima-de-Faria
Publisher: Springer
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One Hundred Years of Chromosome Research: What Remains to be Learned, offers the reader a critical analysis of the observations and experiments that shaped the last 100 years of chromosome research, as well as the ideas which prevailed during this period.

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Published December, 2010
By Esra Galun
Publisher: Springer
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It is reasonable to assume that Jacob combined his keen observation with analysis of his mind in order to predict the outcome: most of the newborns were indeed speckled, spotted or brown.

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Published December, 2010
By Janet Treasure, J.B. Owen, D.A. Collier and J.L. Treasure
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The book aims to review knowledge on the disorders of eating behaviour and body composition in some of the non-primate higher animals and to relate these to similar conditions in humans. These range from anorexia nervosa, at the other end of body composition to obesity, to others, such as bulimia, with more variable effects on body composition.

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Published December, 2010
By Tjeerd G. Kimman
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It deals with the role of infections as evolutionary forces, methods of identifying susceptibility genes, the role of susceptibility genes in the pathogenesis of infectious disease, as well as with the application of this knowledge in public health policy, vaccine development, and animal breeding.

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Published December, 2010
By Eugene V. Koonin, Michael Y. Galperin, Michael Galperin and Eugene Koonin
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Sequence - Evolution - Function is an introduction to the computational approaches that play a critical role in the emerging new branch of biology known as functional genomics.

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Published December, 2010
By Elena Hilario and John F. MacKay
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology
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Protocols for Nucleic Acid Analysis by Non-radioactive Probes, Second Edition provides a firm background on the basic preparative protocols required for the analysis of nucleic acids by nonradioactive methods.

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Published December, 2010
By Jorg Tost and Joerg Tost
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology
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Over the past few years, DNA methylation technologies and our knowledge of DNA methylation patterns have been advancing at a breathtaking pace.

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Published December, 2010
By Dhavendra Kumar
Publisher: Springer
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In the current excitement generated by the human genome project and the molecular and genetic approach to the study of human disease, there is little doubt that this field will develop and flourish in India in the future.

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Published December, 2010
By Jonathan J. Li, Sara A. Li, Henri Rochefort, Suresh Mohla and Thierry Maudelonde
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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Information gathered from cell-free systems, cell cultures, animal models, and human studies, together provide important insights to our understanding of hormonal cancer causation, development, and prevention; The emerging fields of colon, lung, and pancreatic cancers in relation to hormones are examined.

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Published December, 2010
By H. Loserl and Adolf Heschl
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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Do our genes determine our behavior? In doing so, he creates an image of human evolution that argues that our entire individual knowledge is determined - to the smallest detail - by phylogeny.

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