Embryos under the Microscope : The Diverging Meanings of Life /

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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. Embryos under the Microscope ex...

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Autor principal: Maienschein, Jane (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]
Edición:Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
Temas:
Developmental biology > Popular works.
Embryology, Human > Popular works.
Human embryo > Popular works.
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Developmental Biology.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Recurring Questions, Seeing and Believing
  • 2. Hypothetical and Observed Embryos with Microscopes at Work
  • 3. Experimental Embryos in the Laboratory
  • 4. Inherited, Evolved, and Computed Embryos
  • 5. The Visible Human Embryo
  • 6. The Idea of Engineered and Constructed Embryos
  • 7. Constructing Embryos for Society, Stem Cells in Action
  • 8. Constraints and Opportunities for Construction
  • Therefore . . .
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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