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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization, and gene mapping.
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The author tells a history of the study of cancer-causing viruses from the early twentieth century to the development of an HPV vaccine for cervical cancer in 2006. He profiles the "cancer virus hunters" who made breakthroughs in tumor virology"--
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Drawn from extensive research and on-the-ground reporting, Heal explores how veterinarians and oncologists are working together to find new therapies for similar cancers in dogs and people, including lymphoma, breast cancer, melanoma, and gastric cancer. Heal also examines the emerging science behind some dogs' remarkable ability to sniff out early stage tumors and the efforts underway to translate that talent into diagnostic devices for early detectionof...
7) Medicine man
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Sean Connery plays Dr. Robert Campbell, a brilliant but unorthodox scientist racing against time in his bold research for a cure against cancer. Set deep in the forbidding, Amazon rain forest, this action-packed hit follows Campbell hot on the trail of an amazing discovery - but the eccentric recluse soon finds himself caught in the midst of an explosive adventure!--Container.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking seventeen ships and killing over a thousand servicemen and hundreds of civilians. Caught in the surprise air raid was the John Harvey, an American Liberty ship carrying a top-secret cargo of 2,000 mustard bombs to be used in retaliation if the Germans resorted to gas warfare. After young sailors began suddenly dying with mysterious symptoms, Lieutenant...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The extraordinary story of the Nazi-era scientific genius who discovered how cancer cells eat-and what it means for how we should. The Nobel laureate Otto Warburg-a cousin of the famous finance Warburgs-was widely regarded in his day as one of the most important biochemists of the twentieth century, a man whose research was integral to humanity's understanding of cancer. He was also among the most despised figures in Nazi Germany. As a Jewish homosexual...
10) Murder in Havana
Author
Series
Capital crimes series volume 18
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The definitive history of the work being carried out by Michael Milken and the Milken Institute to accelerate medical breakthroughs and lead humanity into the 21st century of medicine, providing an inspirational and hopeful road map for the future of the field"--
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