Embryos under the Microscope : : The Diverging Meanings of Life / / Jane Maienschein.
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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Maienschein, Jane, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Embryos under the Microscope : The Diverging Meanings of Life / Jane Maienschein. Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource (348 p.) : 23 halftones, 1 table text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) Developmental biology Popular works. Embryology, Human Popular works. Human embryo Popular works. SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Developmental Biology. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110665901 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674369726 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674369726 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674369726/original |
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