The Dance of Life: The New Science of How a Single Cell Becomes a Human Being
Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Roger Highfield$25.50
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A renowned biologist's cutting-edge and unconventional examination of human reproduction and embryo research
Scientists have long struggled to make pregnancy easier, safer, and more successful. In The Dance of Life, developmental and stem-cell biologist Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz takes us to the front lines of efforts to understand the creation of a human life. She has spent two decades unraveling the mysteries of development, as a simple fertilized egg becomes a complex human being of forty trillion cells. Zernicka-Goetz's work is both incredibly practical and astonishingly vast: her groundbreaking experiments with mouse, human, and artificial embryo models give hope to how more women can sustain viable pregnancies. Set at the intersection of science's greatest powers and humanity's greatest concern, The Dance of Life is a revelatory account of the future of fertility -- and life itself.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 02/25/2020
ISBN: 9781541699069
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.20w x 1.10d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 10/21/2019
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2019
Library Journal 01/01/2020 pg. 98
Scientists have long struggled to make pregnancy easier, safer, and more successful. In The Dance of Life, developmental and stem-cell biologist Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz takes us to the front lines of efforts to understand the creation of a human life. She has spent two decades unraveling the mysteries of development, as a simple fertilized egg becomes a complex human being of forty trillion cells. Zernicka-Goetz's work is both incredibly practical and astonishingly vast: her groundbreaking experiments with mouse, human, and artificial embryo models give hope to how more women can sustain viable pregnancies. Set at the intersection of science's greatest powers and humanity's greatest concern, The Dance of Life is a revelatory account of the future of fertility -- and life itself.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 02/25/2020
ISBN: 9781541699069
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.20w x 1.10d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 10/21/2019
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2019
Library Journal 01/01/2020 pg. 98