How to grow a human : adventures in who we are and how we are made / Philip Ball.
Publisher: London : William Collins, 2019Description: xi, 372 pages : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780008331771 ; 9780008331788Subject(s): Self![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 660.65 BAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 017710 |
My brain in a dish -- Pieces of life : cells past and present -- Body building : growing humans the old fashioned way -- The human superorganism : how cells became communities -- Immortal flesh : how tissues were grown outside the body -- Heroes and villains : cancer, immunity and our cellular ecosystem -- Twists of fate : how to reprogramme a cell -- The spare parts factory : making tissues and organs from reprogrammed cells -- Flesh of my flesh : questioning the future of sex and reproduction -- Hideous progeny? The futures of growing humans -- Philosophy of the lonely mind : can a brain exist in a dish? -- Return of the meatware : coming to terms with our fleshy selves.