
Immortal
Our Cells, DNA, and Bodies
Description
Key Features
- Applies recent genetic, molecular and cellular findings to examine the boundaries between living and non-living, and between person and non-person
- Examines the significance of epigenetic memory and transgenerational inheritance and their uses in molecular and precision medicine
- Written by a thought-leader in genetic and molecular medicine
Readership
Active researchers, basic and translational scientists, and clinicians in the areas of human genetics, genomics, molecular biology, cell biology, neuroscience, aging, and physiology, internal medicine; bioethicists clinicians and students of life science, genetics, and medicine; engaged general public
Table of Contents
1. Death
2. HeLa: The resurrection of Henrietta Lacks
3. Persistence of memory
4. Hel: Goddess of death and life
5. Where self-resides
6. Our diploid selves
7. Our cellular selves
8. From molecule to self
9. The ancient divide between molecule and self
10. Viruses and other half-life
11. Altruism, of cell and self
12. Shrines and museums
13. Robbing the grave
14. Birth
15. Anastasia
Product details
- No. of pages: 204
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2021
- Published: July 1, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323856928
- eBook ISBN: 9780323856935
About the Author
David Goldman
