1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996392636403316

Titolo

Advertisement [[electronic resource] ] : On Monday next will be published, after the method of Mr. Echard's Roman and Mr. Stanyan's Grecian history, the Jewish history, as well ecclesiastical as civil .

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[London, : S. Briscoe, [et al.]], Thursday July 1st, 1708

Descrizione fisica

1 sheet ([1] p.)

Soggetti

Publishers and publishing - England - London

Advertising flyers18th century.England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Imprint information conjectured by cataloger from the piece.

Reproduction of original in: British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910337950503321

Autore

Smith V. Anne

Titolo

A Code for Carolyn : A Genomic Thriller / / by V. Anne Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-04553-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (V, 235 p. 6 illus.)

Collana

Science and Fiction, , 2197-1188

Disciplina

570

Soggetti

Life sciences

Nucleic acids

Genetic engineering

Chemistry

Popular Life Sciences

Nucleic Acid Chemistry

Genetic Engineering

Popular Science in Chemistry and Materials

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Carolyn’s parents did not, after all, make genomics history by synthesizing her genome in a lab. She has known she is the "Human Hoax" ever since a high school genetics exercise revealed she has trisomy X—a chromosomal abnormality—yet no synthetically constructed genome would have such clear traces of natural conception. Many years later, as molecular biologist, she hopes her colleagues never learn of her embarrassing origins. But when someone ransacks her office and lab, she finds professional embarrassment is the least of her worries. Someone believes she has the results of her parents’ last, secret experiments, and is willing to kill to get them. But all she has from her parents are their genes—can she find what else they may have left her before somebody else does? In a not-so-distant society, where corporations wield as much power as nations and the line between corporate employee and state authority is blurred, the



chase is on. Carolyn may have just too little time at hand to unravel the mystery of her parents’ final days and to realize the deep consequences for the future of mankind. This fast-paced novel is followed by an extensive science chapter where the author provides a non-technical primer on modern genetics and on the speculative biology behind Carolyn’s code. Dr V Anne Smith is on the biology faculty at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. She researches computational biology, concentrating on complex biological networks. She develops algorithms to infer functional interactions based upon observational data, generating biological discovery in areas as diverse as ecosystems and gene regulation. In addition to doing research, she enjoys writing science fiction stories. A Code for Carolyn is her first scientific novel.