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p53: The Gene That Cracked the Cancer Code
- De: Sue Armstrong
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Jasicki
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
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p53: The Gene That Cracked the Cancer Code reveals the tale of the search for this gene, as well as the excitement of the hunt for new cures - the hype, the lost opportunities, the blind alleys, and the thrilling breakthroughs. As the long-anticipated revolution in cancer treatment tailored to each individual patient's symptoms starts to take off at last, p53 is still at the forefront of the game. This is a timely tale of scientific discovery and advances in our understanding of a disease that still affects more than one in three of us at some point in our lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent story! Unfortunate narration at start
- De Adriana en 12-25-14
De: Sue Armstrong
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Drugged: The Science and Culture Behind Psychotropic Drugs
- De: Richard J. Miller
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 15 h y 42 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 359
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 317
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In Drugged, Miller takes listeners on an eye-opening tour of psychotropic drugs, describing the various kinds, how they were discovered and developed, and how they have played multiple roles in virtually every culture. Drugged brims with surprises, revealing the fact that antidepressant drugs evolved from rocket fuel, highlighting the role of hallucinogens in the history of religion, and asking whether Prozac can help depressed cats. Entertaining and authoritative, Drugged is a truly fascinating book.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting reading but heavy on the biochemistry
- De Scott en 06-28-14
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Headstrong
- 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
- De: Rachel Swaby
- Narrado por: Lauren Fortgang
- Duración: 7 h y 1 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 54
In 2013, the New York Times published an obituary for Yvonne Brill. It began: “She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job, and took eight years off from work to raise three children.” It wasn’t until the second paragraph that readers discovered why the Times had devoted several hundred words to her life: Brill was a brilliant rocket scientist who invented a propulsion system to keep communications satellites in orbit, and had recently been awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Role models for young women
- De mtsuda90 en 06-25-16
De: Rachel Swaby
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The Demon Under The Microscope
- De: Thomas Hager
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 12 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,481
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,536
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,534
The Nazis discovered it. The Allies won the war with it. It conquered diseases, changed laws, and single-handedly launched the era of antibiotics. This incredible discovery was sulfa, the first antibiotic medication. In The Demon Under the Microscope, Thomas Hager chronicles the dramatic history of the drug that shaped modern medicine.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book!!!!!
- De Amazon Customer en 05-21-08
De: Thomas Hager
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Happy Accidents
- Serendipity in Major Medical Breakthroughs in the Twentieth Century
- De: Morton A. Meyers
- Narrado por: Richard Waterhouse
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44
Happy Accidents is a fascinating, entertaining, and highly accessible look at the surprising role serendipity has played in some of the most important medical discoveries in the 20th century. What do penicillin, chemotherapy drugs, X-rays, Valium, the Pap smear, and Viagra have in common? They were each discovered accidentally, stumbled upon in the search for something else. In discussing medical breakthroughs, Dr. Morton Meyers makes a cogent, highly engaging argument for a more creative, rather than purely linear, approach to science. And it may just save our lives!
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1 out of 5 stars
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Don't waste your money!
- De Amazon Customer en 03-20-16
De: Morton A. Meyers
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Splendid Solution
- Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio
- De: Jeffrey Kluger
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 13 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 247
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Salk became a cultural hero and icon for a whole generation. Now, at the fiftieth anniversary of the first national vaccination program, and as humanity is tantalizingly close to eradicating polio worldwide, comes this unforgettable chronicle. Salk's work was an unparalleled achievement, and it makes for a magnificent listen.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book
- De Tim en 08-10-06
De: Jeffrey Kluger
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The Emperor of All Maladies
- A Biography of Cancer
- De: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 22 h y 18 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 4,609
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4,044
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The Emperor of All Maladies reveals the many faces of an iconic, shape-shifting disease that is the defining plague of our generation. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance but also of hubris, arrogance, paternalism, and misperception, all leveraged against a disease that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out "war against cancer".
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible
- De S.R.E. en 03-02-16
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Rigor Mortis
- How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions
- De: Richard Harris
- Narrado por: Joe Delafield
- Duración: 5 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 99
American taxpayers spend $30 billion annually funding biomedical research, but over half of these studies can't be replicated due to poor experimental design, improper methods, and sloppy statistics. Bad science doesn't just hold back medical progress, it can sign the equivalent of a death sentence for terminal patients. In Rigor Mortis, Richard Harris explores these urgent issues with vivid anecdotes, personal stories, and interviews with the top biomedical researchers. We need to fix our dysfunctional biomedical system - before it's too late.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Eye opening introduction to biomedical R&D
- De Amazon Customer en 09-18-18
De: Richard Harris
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The Compatibility Gene
- How Our Bodies Fight Disease, Attract Others, and Define Our Selves
- De: Daniel M. Davis
- Narrado por: Christopher Grove
- Duración: 7 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Most of the 25,000 genes we possess are the same for all of us. Compatibility genes are those that vary most from person to person and give each of us a unique molecular signature. These genes determine both the extent to which we are susceptible to a vast range of illnesses and the different ways each of us fights disease.
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5 out of 5 stars
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If interested in medicine, got to read
- De Howard Sterling en 06-29-16
De: Daniel M. Davis
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The Cancer Chronicles
- Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery
- De: George Johnson
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 8 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 52
When the woman he loved was diagnosed with a metastatic cancer, science writer George Johnson embarked on a journey to learn everything he could about the disease and the people who dedicate their lives to understanding and combating it. What he discovered is a revolution under way - an explosion of new ideas about what cancer really is and where it comes from. In a provocative and intellectually vibrant exploration, he takes us on an adventure through the history and recent advances of cancer research that will challenge everything you thought you knew about the disease.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A quick read - hard to put down
- De Digital Dilema en 09-06-13
De: George Johnson
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Permanent Present Tense
- The Unforgettable Life of the Amnesic Patient, H.M.
- De: Suzanne Corkin
- Narrado por: Pam Ward
- Duración: 13 h y 15 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 42
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Permanent Present Tense tells the incredible story of Henry Gustav Molaison, known only as H. M. until his death in 2008. In 1953, at the age of 27, Molaison underwent a dangerous "psychosurgical" procedure intended to alleviate his debilitating epilepsy. The surgery went horribly wrong, and when Molaison awoke he was unable to store new experiences. For the rest of his life, he would be trapped in the moment. But Molaison’s tragedy would prove a gift to humanity.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Read Luke Dittrich's "Patient H.M." first...
- De Douglas en 11-07-16
De: Suzanne Corkin
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Manufacturing Depression
- The Secret History of a Modern Disease
- De: Gary Greenberg
- Narrado por: Kirby Heyborne
- Duración: 14 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Am I happy enough? This has been a pivotal question since America's inception. "Am I not happy enough because I am depressed?" is a more recent version. Psychotherapist Gary Greenberg shows how depression has been manufactured---not as an illness but as an idea about our suffering, its source, and its relief. He challenges us to look at depression in a new way.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Modern Gonzo Tour de Force
- De S. Frank en 11-12-11
De: Gary Greenberg
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The Family That Couldn't Sleep
- A Medical Mystery
- De: D.T. Max
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 479
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For 200 years, a noble Venetian family has suffered from an inherited disease that strikes their members in middle age, stealing their sleep, eating holes in their brains, and ending their lives in a matter of months. In Papua New Guinea, a primitive tribe is nearly obliterated by a sickness whose chief symptom is uncontrollable laughter. Across Europe, millions of sheep rub their fleeces raw before collapsing. What these strange conditions share is their cause: prions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great scientific mystery
- De David en 11-04-06
De: D.T. Max
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Polio
- An American Story
- De: David M. Oshinsky
- Narrado por: Jonathan Hogan
- Duración: 14 h y 37 m
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This comprehensive and gripping narrative, which received the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for history, covers all the challenges, characters, and controversies in America's relentless struggle against polio. Funded by philanthropy and grassroots contributions, Salk's killed-virus vaccine (1954) and Sabin's live-virus vaccine (1961) began to eradicate this dreaded disease.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- De Patricia B Tripoli en 07-22-08
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How to Survive a Plague
- The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
- De: David France
- Narrado por: Rory O'Malley
- Duración: 24 h y 28 m
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A riveting, powerful telling of the story of the grassroots movement of activists, many of them in a life-or-death struggle, who seized upon scientific research to help develop the drugs that turned HIV from a mostly fatal infection to a manageable disease. Ignored by public officials, religious leaders, and the nation at large, and confronted with shame and hatred, this small group of men and women chose to fight for their right to live by educating themselves and demanding to become full partners in the race for effective treatments.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Read This Book!
- De Kay M Hawklee en 05-30-17
De: David France
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Neanderthal Man
- In Search of Lost Genomes
- De: Svante Pääbo
- Narrado por: Dennis Holland
- Duración: 10 h y 36 m
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A preeminent geneticist hunts the Neanderthal genome to answer the biggest question of them all: what does it mean to be human? What can we learn from the genes of our closest evolutionary relatives? Neanderthal Man tells the story of geneticist Svante Pbo’s mission to answer that question, beginning with the study of DNA in Egyptian mummies in the early 1980s and culminating in his sequencing of the Neanderthal genome in 2009.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent science tale
- De Neuron en 01-19-15
De: Svante Pääbo
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Anatomy of a Scientific Discovery
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A fly on the wall view
A wealth of details about the nitty gritty or mundane lives of scientists And their narcissism.
Vast amount of details of cut throat competition that occurs in pursuit of scientific truths.
I felt like the fly on the walls of research scientists ( call them detectives) inter-sanctums.
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- Ed
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Readers should have knowledge of subject
The story is interesting but this reader should not have been selected or used for any scientific books. Reader has no training in how to pronounce amino acid names & puts emPHYsis on the wrong sylLAble. Constantly pronounces exOGenous as exoGENous. At one point confuses diabetes and diarrhea and later misreads or mispronounces amenorrhea for dysmenorrhea. (They are not the same!)
For someone familiar with how these words SHOULD be pronounced, it is like fingernails on a black board.
Publisher should screen or train readers before assigning.
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