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My name is William R. Clark. For 30 years I have been a research scientist and Professor of Immunology at UCLA. Recently, I decided to write books about science for the general public. The books I have completed so far are described on this website. None of them requires a scientific background. I invite you to explore the many interactive features on this website, and would be delighted to know your reactions - positive or negative - to the site, and to any of the books I have written. I welcome your ideas for topics that you would like to know more about in the future, and I will try to answer any questions you may have about the science discussed in my books. However, while I have worked in health-related fields for most of my career, I am a Ph.D. scientist, not a physician, and I do not provide advice related to personal health. For some interesting emails from my readers, visit my conversations page where you will find correspondence from visitors to my site.
   
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| Why are human beings so different from one another? Why are some people tall, some short; some brown-eyed, some blue-eyed? The fact that daughters and sons tend to look like mothers and fathers suggests that physical features are heritable, and therefore due in part to genes. But what about behavior? Why, in the very same family, are some children assertive, others shy? Why are some highly emotional, others more reserved and "Logical?" Are these traits heritable too? Co differences in these traits among individuals also have a genetic basis? | ||
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ISBN#: 0195138260 - Oxford University Press Hardcover: 2000 384 pages |
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| Is aging inevitable? Will advances in medical knowledge allow us to extend the human lifespan beyond its present limits? Growing old has become the one irreducible reality of human existence, but recent discoveries in the fields of cell biology and molecular genetics are seriously challenging the assumption that human lifespans are beyond our control. | ||
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ISBN 0-19-512593-2 - Oxford University Press Hardcover: 1999 234 pages |
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| Why death? Is death an inextricable consequence of life? If not, where did death come from? Sex and the Origins of Death looks at life and death at the level of individual cells to address questions such as why we age, why cells die, and why sex and death seem to go hand in hand. | |||||
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ISBN 0-19-510644-X - Oxford University Press Hardcover: 1996. 190 pages. Paperback edition: 1998. |
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| Science and medicine have provided us with clues to the treatment of a few genetic diseases, although by their very nature they have never been considered curable. But that is about to change, through one of the most profound revolutions in modern medicine: gene therapy, a branch of the new field of molecular medicine. | ||
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ISBN 0-19-511730-1 - Oxford University Press Hardcover: 1997. 245 pages Paperback edition: 1999 |
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| A fascinating tour through the immune system, examining the history of its discovery, the ways in which it protects us, and how it may bring its full force to bear at the wrong time or in the wrong place. | ||
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ISBN 0-19-509286-4 - Oxford University Press Hardcover: 1995. 276 pages. Paperback edition: 1996 |
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| We have known about the existence of killer lymphocytes since 1960, when they were discovered in connection with transplant rejection in vivo. But what is it they really do? | ||
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Hardcover: 370 pages Publisher: Springer; 1st edition (April, 2005) ISBN: 1402032692 |
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Download Magazine and Journal
Articles by the Author
The Genetics of Fear
From the Scientific American Magazine
GENES, CULTURE, AND CHAOS:
Human Behavior and the Nature of Free Will
A MEANS TO AN END....
What Modern Science is telling us about
the evolution of aging and death
THE GENE DOCTORS
Molecular Medicine in the Twenty-first Century
EVOLUTION OF AGING AND DEATH
Reflections on an unsolved problem of biology
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