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How to grow a human : adventures in how we are made and who we are
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Title
How to grow a human : adventures in how we are made and who we are / Philip Ball.
ISBN
9780226654805
022665480X
9780226676173
Publication
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Copyright Notice Date
©2019
Physical Description
xi, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 21, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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