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How to grow a human : adventures in how we are made and who we are / Philip Ball.
LIBRA R857.T55 B35 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ball, Philip, 1962- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tissue engineering--Popular works.
- Tissue engineering.
- Tissue culture--Popular works.
- Tissue culture.
- Organ culture--Popular works.
- Organ culture.
- Cell transformation--Popular works.
- Cell transformation.
- Cytology--Popular works.
- Cytology.
- Developmental biology--Popular works.
- Developmental biology.
- Bioengineering--Popular works.
- Bioengineering.
- Genre:
- Popular works.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 372 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
- Contents:
- Introduction: My brain in a dish
- Chapter 1. Pieces of life : Cells past and present
- Chapter 2. What love has to do with it : Growing humans the old-fashioned way
- First Interlude. The human superorganism : How cells became communities
- Chapter 3. Immortal flesh : How tissues were grown outside the body
- Second Interlude. Heroes and villains : The microbiome, immunity and cancer
- Chapter 4. Twisting fate : How to reprogramme a cell
- Chapter 5. The spare parts factory : Making tissues and organs from reprogrammed cells
- Chapter 6. Flesh of my flesh : Questioning the future of sex and reproduction
- Chapter 7. Hideous progeny? The futures of growing humans
- Third Interlude. Philosophy of the lonely mind : Can a brain exist in a dish?
- Chapter 8. Return of the meatware : Coming to terms with our fleshy selves.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226654805
- 022665480X
- OCLC:
- 1089278558
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