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Becoming immortal : combining cloning and stem-cell therapy /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Becoming Immortal
- Contents
- Preface
- Prologue
- 1. Quo Vadis?
- WHY BECOME IMMORTAL?
- HAS LIFE CHANGED?
- "HELLO, DOLLY!" AND SALUTATIONS TO STEM CELLS
- WHY WE ARE NOT IMMORTAL OR WHAT IS LIFE ANYWAY?
- ACHIEVING IMMORTALITY THROUGH BIOTECHNOLOGY
- 2. Why Immortality Cannot Evolve
- WHERE DOES LONGEVITY COME FROM, AND WHY HAS EVOLUTION MADE US MORTAL RATHER THAN IMMORTAL?
- WHAT IS AN EVOLUTIONARY VIEW OF LONGEVITY, AND WHY ARE THE PROSPECTS SO BLEAK FOR ACHIEVING IMMORTALITY THROUGH EVOLUTION?
- AFTERWORD: IMMORTALITY TRIUMPHANT!
- 3. Why Immortality Cannot Develop.
- DEVELOPMENT'S "WHO, WHERE, WHAT, WHEN, HOW, AND WHY?"
- DEVELOPMENT ACCORDING TO EMBRYOLOGISTS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGISTS
- CONCLUSIONS
- 4. Life's Fundamental Feature: Devolution
- GETTING DOWN TO BASICS: LIFE BEGINS
- AN INTRODUCTION TO DEVOLUTION
- THE DEVOLUTION OF EUCARYA
- THE DEVOLUTION OF SEX
- THE DEVOLUTION OF METAZOA
- THE DEVOLUTION OF LIFE HISTORIES
- THE DEVOLUTION OF DEATH
- CONCLUSIONS
- 5. Making Immortals: From Blastocyst to Generator
- TAKING ANOTHER LOOK AT CLONING
- TAKING ANOTHER LOOK AT STEM CELLS
- MAKING IMMORTALS
- MAKING GENERATORS.
- Epilogue: Reprise and Prediction
- PROSPECTS FOR IMMORTALIZATION
- ADJUSTMENTS REQUIRED BY IMMORTALIZATION
- AT WHAT COST?
- Endotes
- NOTES TO PREFACE
- NOTES TO CHAPTER 1
- NOTES TO CHAPTER 2
- NOTES TO CHAPTER 4
- NOTES TO CHAPTER 5
- NOTES TO EPILOGUE
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
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