Biological Technology

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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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    • 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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    • 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 757 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 True Story of General Leslie R. Groves, the Man Behind the Birth of the Atomic Age
    • By: Robert S. Norris
    • Narrated by: Peter Johnson
    • Length: 23 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • Revealed for the first time in Racing for the Bomb, Groves played a crucial and decisive role in the planning, timing, and targeting of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki missions....

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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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    • 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 568 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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    • By: Rebecca Skloot
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16,698 ratings
    • 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....

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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 1,360 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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    • Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Kathe Mazur, Walter Isaacson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,300 ratings
    • The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with an account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies....

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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 439 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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    • 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 5,893 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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    • 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 576 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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    • My Genome - My Life
    • By: J. Craig Venter
    • Narrated by: Dick Hill
    • Length: 16 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 146 ratings
    • Growing up in California, J. Craig Venter didn't appear to have much of a future....

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    • Wild Animals in a Wild World
    • By: Coyote Peterson
    • Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
    • Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Coyote Peterson's Brave Adventures: Wild Animals in a Wild World chronicles some of the wildest encounters Coyote Peterson has had over the course of his travels....

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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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 187 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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    • 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 613 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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