Biological Technology

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    • The Beginnings of Biotech
    • By: Sally Smith Hughes
    • Narrated by: Suzie Althens
    • Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • In the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of Wall Street, raising over $38 million in its initial public stock offering....

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    • How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
    • By: Eric Topol
    • Narrated by: Graham Winton
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 755 ratings
    • One of America's top doctors reveals how AI will empower physicians and revolutionize patient care....

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    • Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
    • By: Jamie Metzl
    • Narrated by: Eric Martin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 723 ratings
    • From leading geopolitical expert and technology futurist Jamie Metzl comes a groundbreaking exploration of the many ways genetic engineering is shaking the core foundations of our lives-sex, war, love, and death....

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    • The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
    • By: Venki Ramakrishnan
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 635 ratings
    • Everyone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the ribosome - an enormous molecular machine made up of a million atoms. Gene Machine is an insider account of the race for the structure of the ribosome....

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    • Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution
    • By: David Quammen
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 396 ratings
    • In September 1838, a young Englishman named Charles Darwin hit upon the idea that "natural selection" among competing individuals would lead to wondrous adaptations and species diversity....

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    • By: Thomas Hager
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,488 ratings
    • Fast-paced, suspenseful, and utterly satisfying, The Demon Under the Microscope is a sweeping history of the discovery of the first antibiotic and its dramatic effect on the world....

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    • My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
    • By: Jane Goodall
    • Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt
    • Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 80 ratings
    • In her classic, In the Shadow of Man, Jane Goodall wrote of her first 10 years at Gombe. In Through a Window she continues the story, painting a more complete and vivid portrait of our closest relatives....

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    • Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World
    • By: Shelley Emling
    • Narrated by: Rachael Beresford
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • Mary Anning was only 12 years old when, in 1811, she discovered the first dinosaur skeleton - of an ichthyosaur - while fossil hunting on the cliffs of Lyme Regis, England. Until Mary's incredible discovery, it was widely believed that animals did not become extinct....

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    • Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
    • By: Sue Black
    • Narrated by: Sue Black
    • Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 174 ratings
    • Internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and human anatomist Dame Sue Black takes us on a guided tour of the human skeleton, explaining how each person's life history is revealed in their bones....

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    • Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix
    • By: Howard Markel
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • One of our most prominent medical historians presents an authoritative history of the race to unravel DNA’s structure....

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    • Portrait of a Genius
    • By: Paul Johnson
    • Narrated by: John Curless
    • Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Charles Darwin is arguably the most influential scientist of all time. His Origin of Species forever changed our concept of the world’s creation...

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    • A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality, and Solving Crimes
    • By: Sue Black
    • Narrated by: Angela Dawe
    • Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 552 ratings
    • For fans of Caitlin Doughty, Mary Roach, and CSI shows, renowned forensic scientist Professor Sue Black presents a deeply humane introduction to the reality of death in our lives, for anyone seeking a clear-eyed guide to a subject that touches us all....

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    • Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
    • By: Jennifer A. Doudna, Samuel H. Sternberg
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,359 ratings
    • The cheapest, simplest, most effective way of manipulating DNA ever known, CRISPR may well give us the cure to HIV, genetic diseases, and some cancers....

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    • Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
    • By: Patrik Svensson
    • Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 05-26-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 612 ratings
    • Part H Is for Hawk, part The Soul of an Octopus, The Book of Eels is both a meditation on the world’s most elusive fish - the eel - and a reflection on the human condition....

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    • Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
    • By: Stuart Russell
    • Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 572 ratings
    • A leading artificial intelligence researcher lays out a new approach to AI that will enable us to coexist successfully with increasingly intelligent machines....

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    • When Humans Transcend Biology
    • By: Ray Kurzweil
    • Narrated by: George Wilson
    • Length: 24 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 437 ratings
    • For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best....

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    • How the Convergence of Biology and Engineering Will Build the Next Technology Revolution
    • By: Susan Hockfield
    • Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 346 ratings
    • From the former president of MIT, the story of the next technology revolution and how it will change our lives....

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    • Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
    • By: Max Tegmark
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,892 ratings
    • How will artificial intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society, and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology....

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