Superhuman
Following on from the internationally successful BBC programme The Human Body, Superhuman explores the body's amazing ability to heal, renew and regenerate itself. This stunning, illustrated book complements the television series and relates dramatic tales of futuristic medicine.We see how the body's own power of self-repair is being enhanced by new drugs and techniques we look ahead to what will be possible in the near future, including 'designer' babies, viruses carrying repair genes to cells when they become cancerous, tailor-made human tissue and organs grown in the laboratory, genetically modified animal organs for human transplantation…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Oliwenstein, Lori
- ISBN: 978-1-4481-4100-5
- EAN: 9781448141005
- Produktnummer: 14352963
- Verlag: Bbc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 41'162 KB
Über den Autor
Robert Winston is Director of Reproductive Medicine at Hammersmith Hospital and Professor of Fertility Studies, Imperial College, London. His research into embryology and genetics is recognised internationally. He is currently Chairman of the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology. He has presented various BBC television series, including The Human Body which won numerous awards, including three BAFTAs. His publications written for lay readership, for which he was recently awarded the Royal Society's Michael Faraday Gold Medal, include:The IVF Revolution (Vermillion, 1999)Predictions Genetic Manipulation (Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1997)Making Babies (BBC, 1996)Getting Pregnant (Pan Macmillan, 1993)Infertility A sympathetic approach (Martin Dunitz, 1986, Vermillion, 1996)Lori Oliwenstein is Science Write at the Unviersity of Southern California's Health Sciences Campus and was formerly a Senior Editor at Discover magazine.
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