Convening Science: Discovery at the Marine Biological Laboratory – serie
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Visions of Cell Biology
Reflections Inspired by Cowdry's "General Cytology"
Av Karl S. Matlin, Jane Maienschein m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
419 kr
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Although modern cell biology is often considered to have arisen following World War II in tandem with certain technological and methodological advances in particular, the electron microscope and cell fractionation its origins actually date to the 1830s and the development of cytology, the …
Nature Remade
Engineering Life, Envisioning Worlds
Av Luis A. Campos, Michael R. Dietrich m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1258 kr
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“Engineering” has firmly taken root in the entangled bank of biology even as proposals to remake the living world have sent tendrils in every direction, and at every scale. Nature Remade explores these complex prospects from a resolutely historical approach, tracing cases across the decades of the …
Nature Remade
Engineering Life, Envisioning Worlds
Av Luis A. Campos, Michael R. Dietrich m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
427 kr
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“Engineering” has firmly taken root in the entangled bank of biology even as proposals to remake the living world have sent tendrils in every direction, and at every scale. Nature Remade explores these complex prospects from a resolutely historical approach, tracing cases across the decades of the …
What Is Regeneration?
Av Jane Maienschein, Kate MacCord
Häftad, 2022
178 kr
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Two historians and philosophers of science offer an essential primer on the meaning and limits of regeneration. In punishment for his stealing fire, the Greek gods chained Prometheus to a rock, where every day an eagle plucked out his liver, and every night the liver regenerated. While Prometheus …
Crossing the Boundaries of Life
Günter Blobel and the Origins of Molecular Cell Biology
Inbunden, 2022
1078 kr
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A close look at Günter Blobel’s transformative contributions to molecular cell biology.The difficulty of reconciling chemical mechanisms with the functions of whole living systems has plagued biologists since the development of cell theory in the nineteenth century. As Karl S. Matlin argues in …
Crossing the Boundaries of Life
Günter Blobel and the Origins of Molecular Cell Biology
Häftad, 2022
307 kr
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A close look at Günter Blobel’s transformative contributions to molecular cell biology.The difficulty of reconciling chemical mechanisms with the functions of whole living systems has plagued biologists since the development of cell theory in the nineteenth century. As Karl S. Matlin argues in …
Can Microbial Communities Regenerate?
Uniting Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Av S. Andrew Inkpen, W. Ford Doolittle
Häftad, 2022
178 kr
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By investigating a simple question, a philosopher of science and a molecular biologist offer an accessible understanding of microbial communities and a motivating theory for future research in community ecology. Microorganisms, such as bacteria, are important determinants of health at the …
Can Microbial Communities Regenerate?
Uniting Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Av S. Andrew Inkpen, W. Ford Doolittle
Inbunden, 2022
821 kr
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By investigating a simple question, a philosopher of science and a molecular biologist offer an accessible understanding of microbial communities and a motivating theory for future research in community ecology. Microorganisms, such as bacteria, are important determinants of health at the …
How Does Germline Regenerate?
Av Kate MacCord
Inbunden, 2024
855 kr
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A concise primer that complicates a convenient truth in biology—the divide between germ and somatic cells—with far-reaching ethical and public policy ramifications. Scientists have long held that we have two kinds of cells—germ and soma. Make a change to germ cells—say using genome editing—and that …
How Does Germline Regenerate?
Av Kate MacCord
Häftad, 2024
230 kr
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A concise primer that complicates a convenient truth in biology—the divide between germ and somatic cells—with far-reaching ethical and public policy ramifications. Scientists have long held that we have two kinds of cells—germ and soma. Make a change to germ cells—say using genome editing—and that …
Contingency Across the Life Sciences
How Accidents Can Be Consequential
Av Alison K. McConwell, Roberta L. Millstein m. fl.
Inbunden, 2027
1675 kr
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With perspectives from biology, history, and philosophy, an investigation of the meaning and importance of contingency in the life sciences. Were the outcomes of evolution, humans included, inevitable? In his 1989 book Wonderful Life, Stephen Jay Gould invited his readers to replay “life’s …
Contingency Across the Life Sciences
How Accidents Can Be Consequential
Av Alison K. McConwell, Roberta L. Millstein m. fl.
Häftad, 2027
578 kr
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With perspectives from biology, history, and philosophy, an investigation of the meaning and importance of contingency in the life sciences. Were the outcomes of evolution, humans included, inevitable? In his 1989 book Wonderful Life, Stephen Jay Gould invited his readers to replay “life’s …
