عنوان

Embryos under the microscope :

شابک

0674725557 (hardcover : alk. paper)

شابک

9780674725553 (hardcover : alk. paper)

شماره

dltt

عنوان اصلي

Embryos under the microscope :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

the diverging meanings of life /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Jane Maienschein

نام خاص و کميت اثر

x, 336 pages :

ساير جزييات

illustrations ;

ابعاد

22 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-312) and index

متن يادداشت

Recurring questions, seeing and believing -- Hypothetical and observed embryos with microscopes at work -- Experimental embryos in the laboratory -- Inherited, evolved, and computed embryos -- The visible human embryo -- The idea of engineered and constructed embryos -- Constructing embryos for society, stem cells in action -- Constraints and opportunities for construction -- Therefore

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

Too tiny to see with the naked eye, the human embryo was just a hypothesis until the microscope made observation of embryonic development possible. This changed forever our view of the minuscule cluster of cells that looms large in questions about the meaning of life. This book examines how our scientific understanding of the embryo has evolved from the earliest speculations of natural philosophers to today's biological engineering, with its many prospects for life-enhancing therapies. Jane Maienschein shows that research on embryos has always revealed possibilities that appear promising to some but deeply frightening to others, and she makes a persuasive case that public understanding must be informed by up-to-date scientific findings. Direct observation of embryos greatly expanded knowledge but also led to disagreements over what investigators were seeing. Biologists confirmed that embryos are living organisms undergoing rapid change and are not in any sense functioning persons. They do not feel pain or have any capacity to think until very late stages of fetal development. New information about DNA led to discoveries about embryonic regulation of genetic inheritance, as well as evolutionary relationships among species. Scientists have learned how to manipulate embryos in the lab, taking them apart, reconstructing them, and even synthesizing - practically from scratch - cells, body parts, and maybe someday entire embryos. Showing how we have learned what we now know about the biology of embryos, Maienschein changes our view of what it means to be alive

موضوع مستند نشده

Developmental biology, Popular works

موضوع مستند نشده

Embryology, Human, Popular works

موضوع مستند نشده

Human embryo, Popular works

موضوع مستند نشده

Embryo Research

شماره رده

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

نشانه اثر

شماره رده

شماره رده

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Maienschein, Jane

تاريخ عمليات

20160427150205.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

rda

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y