Life Unfolding (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
312
Utgivningsdatum
2014-02-27
Förlag
OUP Oxford
Illustratör/Fotograf
Approximately 86 black and white line illustrations
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Approximately 86 black and white line illustrations
Dimensioner
236 x 155 x 41 mm
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613 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780199673537

Life Unfolding

How the human body creates itself

av Jamie A Davies
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2014-02-27
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How can something as complex as a human body create itself from a single fertilized egg? Drawing on ideas from physics and network theory as well as genetics and embryology, Jamie Davies describes the fascinating picture emerging from the latest research, in which complexity builds up through 'adaptive self-organization'.
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TLS, Asif A. Ghazanfar an astonishingly lucid and captivating account of the strange construction processes that lead from a single cell to a fully formed body

New Scientist A demanding but wonder-filled account of the simple interactions that create complex structures.

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Since 1995, Jamie A. Davies has run his own laboratory at the University of Edinburgh, with a multi-disciplinary focus on discovering how mammalian organs construct themselves and how we can use this knowledge to build new tissues and organs for those in need. He has published around 90 research papers in the field of mammalian development, published a major specialist monograph, Mechanisms of Morphogenesis, and edited three multi-author books in the fields of development, stem cells, and tissue engineering. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Biologists, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, and a Fellow of the HIgher Education Academy. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Organogenesis.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements ; Ethical Statement ; Introduction ; 1. Confronting an alien technology ; 2. From one cell to many ; 3. Making a difference ; 4. Laying down a body plan ; 5. Beginning a brain ; 6. Long division ; 7. Fateful conversations ; 8. Great migrations ; 9. Plumbing ; 10. Organizing organs ; 11. Taking up arms ; 12. The Y and how ; 13. Wired ; 14. Dying to be human ; 15. Making your mind up ; 16. A sense of proportion ; 17. Making friends and facing enemies ; 18. Maintenance mode ; 19. Perspectives ; Glossary ; Further reading ; References

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