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    How to grow a human : adventures in how we are made and who we are / Philip Ball.
    by Ball, Philip, 1962- author.
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    Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
    Subjects
  • Tissue engineering -- Popular works.
  •  
  • Tissue culture -- Popular works.
  •  
  • Organ culture -- Popular works.
  •  
  • Cell transformation -- Popular works.
  •  
  • Cytology -- Popular works.
  •  
  • Developmental biology -- Popular works.
  •  
  • Bioengineering -- Popular works.
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    9780226654805 (hardcover alkaline paper) :
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    xi, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
    Contents: 
    Introduction: My brain in a dish -- Chapter 1. Pieces of life : Cells past and present -- Chapter 2. What love has to do with it : Growing humans the old-fashioned way -- First Interlude. The human superorganism : How cells became communities -- Chapter 3. Immortal flesh : How tissues were grown outside the body -- Second Interlude. Heroes and villains : The microbiome, immunity and cancer -- Chapter 4. Twisting fate : How to reprogramme a cell -- Chapter 5. The spare parts factory : Making tissues and organs from reprogrammed cells -- Chapter 6. Flesh of my flesh : Questioning the future of sex and reproduction -- Chapter 7. Hideous progeny? The futures of growing humans -- Third Interlude. Philosophy of the lonely mind : Can a brain exist in a dish? -- Chapter 8. Return of the meatware : Coming to terms with our fleshy selves.
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