Tag: Nessa Carey

June 6, 2017

New Book Tuesday: Junk DNA, the Living Wage, the Political Economy of Brexit, and More!

Our weekly listing of new books now available!

April 24, 2015

The Drugs Do Work (Sometimes) — Nessa Carey on Junk DNA and Medicine

Nessa Carey looks at how science’s growing knowledge of junk DNA is leading to new advances in medicine and the positive and negative role of Big Pharma.

April 23, 2015

Nessa Carey Introduces Us to Dark Genomic Matter

Read an excerpt from “An Introduction to Genomic Dark Matter,” a chapter in Nessa Carey’s JUNK DNA: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE DARK MATTER OF THE GENOME.

April 22, 2015

VIDEO: Nessa Carey Discusses Junk DNA

Watch Nessa Carey, author of JUNK DNA, discuss her new book.

April 21, 2015

An Interview with Nessa Carey, Author of "Junk DNA"

The following is an interview with Nessa Carey, author of Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome: Question: Junk DNA explores the massive amount of excess DNA that do not directly create genes and make up...

March 24, 2015

New Book Tuesday: Junk DNA, Michael Jackson's Harmattan, The End of Cinema, and More!

Our weekly listing of new titles: Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome Nessa Carey Harmattan: A Philosophical Fiction Michael Jackson The End of Cinema?: A Medium in Crisis in the Digital Age André Gaudreault and...

September 30, 2013

Nessa Carey Explains Epigenetics with Marshmallows and Gum Drops

Genetics and epigenetics are admittedly not the easiest concepts to grasp. However, in this video, Nessa Carey, author of The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease, and Inheritance (now available in paperback) helps out...

May 17, 2012

An excerpt from The Epigenetics Revolution, by Nessa Carey

An excerpt from Nessa Carey’s excellent introduction to and explanation of the field of epigenetics, The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease, and Inheritance.

January 24, 2012

New Book Tuesday: Epigenetics, J-Pop, and More!

From Nessa Carey’s Epigenetics to J-Pop, here’s our list of new titles now available: The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease, and Inheritance Nessa Carey Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop...