Sentences with phrase «genetic book of life»
Touted as the key to deciphering the genetic book of life, that initial sequence has proved most useful for finding or confirming genetic mutations that cause rare diseases such as Tay - Sachs disease and Huntington's.
http://discovermagazine.com/ Not exact matches
Dear Roger Williams wasn't aware of this fact when he wrote the Biochemical Individuality book I described above (although he hypothesized about a genetic influence on propensity to thrive on specific diets), but variants of these genes are now known to hinder or help absorption or the efficient use of nutrients in foods, which means that — depending on your genetic makeup, microbiota, health history and living environment — you should consume more or less folate, choline, vitamin C, fatty acids, starches, caffeine and beyond.
Also essential to the book's structure is Rebecca's exploration of different methods of scientific reasoning, and how each can be applied to her own genetic history to determine probable outcomes for her life.
His best - selling YA novels in the Ape Quartet, which started with National Book Award finalist Endangered (2012), are powerful, nuanced invitations to imagine the lives of our genetic cousins, from chimpanzees to gorillas.