Access to scientific literature and resources
An overview of selected new books in Szilárd Library, with a word from their authors, reviewers and publishers
By Thomas R. Cech
In a series of breathtaking discoveries, the biochemist Thomas R. Cech and a diverse cast of brilliant scientists have revealed that RNA—long overlooked as the passive servant of DNA—sits at the center of biology’s greatest mysteries: How did life begin? What makes us human? Why do we get sick and grow old?
By Altuna Akalin
Computational Genomics with R provides a starting point for beginners in genomic data analysis and also guides more advanced practitioners to sophisticated data analysis techniques in genomics. The book covers topics from R programming, to machine learning and statistics, to the latest genomic data analysis techniques.
By Jo Filshie Browning
Science matters, and it’s more important than ever for scientists and physicians to be heard. But there’s a challenge. To get people to listen, you can’t communicate in writing alone anymore. You need to speak up and be seen – on stage, online, and on camera. To do this well, you need to master the art of influential speaking – which is something you probably weren’t taught at university or medical school.
By Jonathan Silvertown
Amid the violence and brutality that dominates the news, it’s hard to think of ourselves as team players. But cooperation, Jonathan Silvertown argues, is a fundamental part of our make-up, and deeply woven into the whole four-billion-year history of life.
By Yvonne Eriksson and Anette Göthlund
Drawing upon theories from visual studies, critical visual culture studies, and cognitive psychology, and with a special focus on gender and ethnicity, this book gives students a theoretical foundation for future work as visual communicators.
Edited by Douglas F. Dluzen, Monika Schmidt and George P. Patrinos
Here, active geneticists, clinicians, and bioinformaticists offer practical solutions for a variety of challenges associated with several modern approaches in genetics and genomics. Emphasis is placed on rigor and reproducibility throughout, with each section containing laboratory case-studies covering step-by-step protocols, best practices, and common pitfalls.
By Clayton Aldern
Drawing on seven years of ground-breaking research, award-winning journalist and neuroscientist Aldern documents a burgeoning public health crisis that has gone largely unreported. Eco-anxiety, he shows us, is just the tip of the iceberg.
By Kristina Warton and Goli Samimi
This book provides an in-depth summary of the technical issues impacting cell-free DNA purification from blood plasma and analysis in a cancer context, including design of PCR assays, sequencing library preparation and methylation analysis.
By Yuval Noah Harari
NEXUS is the thrilling account of how we arrived at this moment, and the urgent choices we must now make to survive – and to thrive.
By Jim Ottaviani and Leland Purvis
Graphic novel “Suspended in Language” tells the complete story of Niels Bohr’s amazing life, discoveries, and his pervasive influence on science, philosophy, and politics.