William S. Klug, Michael R. Cummings, Charlotte A. Spencer, Michael A. Palladino, Darrell J. Killian 2020 Essentials of Genetics is written for courses requiring a text that is briefer and less detailed than its more comprehensive companion, Concepts of Genetics. While coverage is thorough and modern, Essentials is written to be more accessible to biology […]

Ricki Lewis 2015 When I wrote the first edition of this book, in 1992, I could never have imagined that today, thousands of people would have had their genomes sequenced. Nor could I have imagined, when the first genomes were sequenced a decade later, that the process could take under a day, for less than $1,000. Of course, understanding all the […]

T. W. Sadler 2015 Every student will be affected by pregnancy, either their m other’s, because what happens  in the womb does no t necessarily stay in the womb, or by someone else’s. As health care professionals, you will often encounter women of childbearing age who may be pregnant, or  you may have children of your […]

Ronald W. Dudek 2014 The sixth edition of BRS Embryology includes improvements based on suggestions and comments from the many medical students who have used this book in preparation for the USMLE Step 1 examination and those students who have reviewed the book. I pay close attention to these suggestions and comments in order to improve the quality […]

EDITED BY Aubrey Milunsky Jeff M. Milunsky 2016 Diagnosis, Prevention, and Treatment The seductive nature of novel technologies that introduce new preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic avenues is at once appealing, exciting and inherently risky. A faster, sleeker, cheaper ship may flounder on the hidden rocks of uncertainty. The primary destination may be reached with greater speed and efficiency, only to end accountable for initially […]