The Self in the Cell
Author: Sean Grass
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780415943550
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Author: Sean Grass
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780415943550
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Bruce Alberts
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780815332183
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Siddhartha Mukherjee
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2022-10-25
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 1982117370
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauqua Prize! Named a New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Oprah Daily, BookPage, Book Riot, the New York Public Library, and more! In The Song of the Cell, the extraordinary author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Emperor of All Maladies and the #1 New York Times bestseller The Gene “blends cutting-edge research, impeccable scholarship, intrepid reporting, and gorgeous prose into an encyclopedic study that reads like a literary page-turner” (Oprah Daily). Mukherjee begins this magnificent story in the late 1600s, when a distinguished English polymath, Robert Hooke, and an eccentric Dutch cloth-merchant, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek looked down their handmade microscopes. What they saw introduced a radical concept that swept through biology and medicine, touching virtually every aspect of the two sciences, and altering both forever. It was the fact that complex living organisms are assemblages of tiny, self-contained, self-regulating units. Our organs, our physiology, our selves—hearts, blood, brains—are built from these compartments. Hooke christened them “cells.” The discovery of cells—and the reframing of the human body as a cellular ecosystem—announced the birth of a new kind of medicine based on the therapeutic manipulations of cells. A hip fracture, a cardiac arrest, Alzheimer’s dementia, AIDS, pneumonia, lung cancer, kidney failure, arthritis, COVID pneumonia—all could be reconceived as the results of cells, or systems of cells, functioning abnormally. And all could be perceived as loci of cellular therapies. Filled with writing so vivid, lucid, and suspenseful that complex science becomes thrilling, The Song of the Cell tells the story of how scientists discovered cells, began to understand them, and are now using that knowledge to create new humans. Told in six parts, and laced with Mukherjee’s own experience as a researcher, a doctor, and a prolific reader, The Song of the Cell is both panoramic and intimate—a masterpiece on what it means to be human. “In an account both lyrical and capacious, Mukherjee takes us through an evolution of human understanding: from the seventeenth-century discovery that humans are made up of cells to our cutting-edge technologies for manipulating and deploying cells for therapeutic purposes” (The New Yorker).
Author: Lewis Thomas
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1978-02-23
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1101667052
DOWNLOAD EBOOKElegant, suggestive, and clarifying, Lewis Thomas's profoundly humane vision explores the world around us and examines the complex interdependence of all things. Extending beyond the usual limitations of biological science and into a vast and wondrous world of hidden relationships, this provocative book explores in personal, poetic essays to topics such as computers, germs, language, music, death, insects, and medicine. Lewis Thomas writes, "Once you have become permanently startled, as I am, by the realization that we are a social species, you tend to keep an eye out for the pieces of evidence that this is, by and large, good for us."
Author: Rob Phillips
Publisher: Garland Science
Published: 2012-10-29
Total Pages: 1089
ISBN-13: 1134111584
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhysical Biology of the Cell is a textbook for a first course in physical biology or biophysics for undergraduate or graduate students. It maps the huge and complex landscape of cell and molecular biology from the distinct perspective of physical biology. As a key organizing principle, the proximity of topics is based on the physical concepts that
Author: Sean C. Grass
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-27
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1135384843
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMichel Foucault's writing about the Panopticon in Discipline and Punish has dominated discussions of the prison and the novel, and recent literary criticism draws heavily from Foucauldian ideas about surveillance to analyze metaphorical forms of confinement: policing, detection, and public scrutiny and censure. But real Victorian prisons and the novels that portray them have few similarities to the Panopticon. Sean Grass provides a necessary alternative to Foucault by tracing the cultural history of the Victorian prison, and pointing to the tangible relations between Victorian confinement and the narrative production of the self. The Self in the Cell examines the ways in which separate confinement prisons, with their demand for autobiographical production, helped to provide an impetus and a model that guided novelists' explorations of the private self in Victorian fiction.
Author: Suzanne Peterson
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 2012-10-22
Total Pages: 652
ISBN-13: 0123854741
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis manual is a comprehensive compilation of "methods that work" for deriving, characterizing, and differentiating hPSCs, written by the researchers who developed and tested the methods and use them every day in their laboratories. The manual is much more than a collection of recipes; it is intended to spark the interest of scientists in areas of stem cell biology that they may not have considered to be important to their work. The second edition of the Human Stem Cell Manual is an extraordinary laboratory guide for both experienced stem cell researchers and those just beginning to use stem cells in their work. Offers a comprehensive guide for medical and biology researchers who want to use stem cells for basic research, disease modeling, drug development, and cell therapy applications Provides a cohesive global view of the current state of stem cell research, with chapters written by pioneering stem cell researchers in Asia, Europe, and North America Includes new chapters devoted to recently developed methods, such as iPSC technology, written by the scientists who made these breakthroughs
Author: Edmund G. Gardner
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 178
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stephen C. Meyer
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2009-06-23
Total Pages: 628
ISBN-13: 0061472786
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book attempts to make a comprehensive, interdisciplinary case for a new view of the origin of life"--Prologue.
Author: Macfarlane Burnet
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1969-06-02
Total Pages: 340
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