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Bioinformatics, Genomics, and Proteomics: Getting the Big Picture
Item# 39776
© 2009
25 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-072-1
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60825-073-8
If the 20th century was the era of physics and nuclear fission, the 21st belongs to the life sciences. Moving from gene, to genome, to genetically based diseases, this program provides an overview of...
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Biotechnology and Your Health: Pharmaceutical Applications
Item# 39777
© 2009
24 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-074-5
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60825-075-2
Scientists have come a long, long way since Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin, the wonder drug of the 20th century. This program explains the function of infection-fighting antibiotics; vacc...
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Biotechnology in the 21st Century
Item# 39775
© 2009
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-070-7
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60825-071-4
Biotechnology is revolutionizing life in the 21st century, but with every breakthrough comes controversy. Do the benefits of stem cell technology, gene-splicing, and other advances outweigh the risks?...
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Biotechnology on the Farm and in the Factory: Agricultural and Industrial Applications
Item# 39778
© 2009
28 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-076-9
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60825-077-6
As the world's population and overall standard of living continue to increase, the growing demand for food, fuel, and consumer products has reached unprecedented levels. This program examines how biot...
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The Ethics of Biotechnology
Item# 39779
© 2009
24 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-078-3
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60825-079-0
The Nuclear Age-sprung upon the world with the atomic bomb-remains a bitter memory. How biotechnology, with its power to change life on Earth at the most fundamental level, will be viewed in the decad...
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New! Dangerous Ideas: How Darwin's Theories Took Root
Item# 40623
© 2008
58 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-61616-161-3
DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-160-6
What gave Charles Darwin the confidence to finally make his radical ideas on evolution public? Presented by well-known science interpreter Jim Doherty, this program explores Darwin's research during t...
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New! In Darwin's Garden: Evolutionary Theory and Nature's Laboratory
Item# 40622
© 2008
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-61616-159-0
DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-158-3
Journeys to exotic places shaped much of Charles Darwin's thinking, but of equal importance were the humble experiments he performed-quite literally-in his own backyard. This three-part series re-crea...
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New! Of Apes and Men: The Culmination of Darwin's Research
Item# 40625
© 2008
58 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-61616-165-1
DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-164-4
When On the Origin of Species appeared in 1859, it quickly took hold in the popular imagination-but it also glossed over significant and rather disturbing questions. This program explores Darwin's ide...
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New! The Storm Breaks: How Darwin Linked Plant and Animal Studies
Item# 40624
© 2008
59 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-61616-163-7
DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-162-0
Today his name is closely associated with human evolution. Why, then, was Charles Darwin such a tireless observer of plants? This program illustrates Darwin's quest to further support his assertions i...
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Epigenetics: How Food Upsets Our Genes
Item# 40603
© 2008
43 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-61616-137-8
DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-136-1
Why are girls entering puberty at progressively younger ages? Why are the rates of heart attack, cancer, and adult-onset diabetes rising? This program examines growing indications that food affects ou...
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