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Publisher
Nehst Out
Pub. Date
[2005?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This documentary examines the forces that have thwarted meaningful advances in cancer research. The story centers on the Navarros, a family struggling to keep their young son alive.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they’d...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Purported to be part jackrabbit and part antelope, the jackalope began as a local joke concocted by two young brothers in a small Wyoming town during the Great Depression. Their creation quickly spread around the U.S., where it now regularly appears as innumerable forms of kitsch ... Although the jackalope is an invention of the imagination, it is nevertheless connected to actual horned rabbits, which exist in nature and have for centuries been collected...
Author
Publisher
Sirio Editorial
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
390 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
El Dr. Jason Fung ofrece una comprensión nueva y revolucionaria del cáncer: explica qué es, cómo se manifiesta y por qué es tan difícil de tratar. El autor identifica los muchos errores cometidos por la comunidad médica en el campo de la investigación del cáncer, en particular, su enfoque en la genética, o lo que él llama la «semilla» del cáncer, en detrimento de examinar el «suelo», o las condiciones bajo las que prospera esta enfermedad....
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