Embryo
Autor Alfonso Martinez Ariasen Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 noi 2026
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781493095186
ISBN-10: 1493095188
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Globe Pequot Publishing
ISBN-10: 1493095188
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Globe Pequot Publishing
Cuprins
Contents
Preface
An act of becoming
Chapter 1. In the beginning
Chapter 2. A ledger of genes
Chapter 3. Building a cradle
Chapter 4. The blueprint
Chapter 5: On the threshold of human life
Chapter 6: Harnessing the inner drive of the cells
The first century after IVF
Acknowledgements
Sources of quotes in text
Further reading
Index
Preface
An act of becoming
Chapter 1. In the beginning
- The start of the road
- Ex ovo omnia
- Lighting the fuse
- The crucible of our being
- Babies with three parents
- Virgin births
Chapter 2. A ledger of genes
- Bookkeeping
- Multiplication and division
- The book of life or a catalogue of tools?
- Crystal balls
- A red line: changing our fate
- Breaking the rules
- The Yin and Yang of our existence
- Chemical post-its
- The memory of the genes
Chapter 3. Building a cradle
- Good news
- Frogs, kits and human pregnancies
- Invasions and attachments
- Experiments with viruses
- A cradle
- Water
- The embryo’s sibling
- The importance of being inside
- Brave new world?
Chapter 4. The blueprint
- Extraordinary beings
- Cabinets of curiosities
- A normal embryo
- When I began tobe me
- Gastrulation
- The genes in the machine
- Making room
- Theme and variations
- In Hox cells trust
- Our family and other animals
Chapter 5: On the threshold of human life
- A network of cells
- The birth of sentience
- The brainmaker
- Brains without bodies
- Getting a head
- Making faces
- Sex
- A human being in the making
- Becoming human
Chapter 6: Harnessing the inner drive of the cells
- A holy grail
- New blood
- The Recovery of time lost
- The fountain of youth
- Of pigs and men
- Blastocyst foundries
- Headlines and embryos
- Find my secret
- What’s in a name?
The first century after IVF
Acknowledgements
Sources of quotes in text
Further reading
Index