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Multiplicity yours : cloning, stem cell research, and regenerative medicine

Title: Multiplicity yours : cloning, stem cell research, and regenerative medicine / Hwa A. Lim.
Author: Lim, Hwa A.
Publication: Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, ©2006.

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xxvii, 412 pages : illustrations (some color); 23 cm

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

About the Title of the Book 1 -- Risks of Writing this Book 3 -- The Title Revisited 6 -- What Has Gravity Got To Do with This Book? 7 -- One-Handed Scientist 9 -- Information Cornucopia 12 -- Will the Y Chromosome Decay and Take Men with It? 13 -- A Goal of This Book 15 -- Inside This Book 15 -- Best Use of This Book 19 -- 2 A Primer on Genetics 21 -- Living Things 21 -- Tinkering Using Technology 24 -- Survival of the Fittest 27 -- How Genetics Changed the Course of History 29 -- Timeline of Genetics 30 -- 3 Sex -- A Primal Instinct 37 -- The Primal Instinct for Sex 37 -- Emperor Penguins 37 -- Salmons 39 -- Pacific Grunions 39 -- Other Aspects of Sex 40 -- Sex Reigns -- Birds and Bees Do It, But Why? 41 -- Models of Co-Evolution 42 -- The Deleterious Mutation Hypothesis 43 -- The Red Queen Hypothesis 44 -- Computer Simulations 46 -- Supporting Evidence 47 -- Scandal without Sex 48 -- Selfish Genes 49 -- Selfishly Altruistic Kin Selection 50 -- 4 Mating Dance 53 -- Basic Instinct 53 -- Scents of Love 54 -- Cupid's Chemicals 55 -- Mating Dance 56 -- Of Man and Ape 57 -- Sexual Matrimony and Polyamory 58 -- And Less Love 60 -- Tug of War, In Utero 64 -- Back into the Past and Future 65 -- 5 Quest for Perfection 67 -- Beauty Lies in the Eyes of the Beholder 67 -- Ancient Definition of Perfection 68 -- Search for the Perfect Face 69 -- Search for Hour-Glass Figure 71 -- The Myth of Beauty 73 -- The Cute Factor 74 -- No Choice for Baby 77 -- Selective Paternal Reproduction 79 -- The Founding of Rome 81 -- Selective Maternal Reproduction 82 -- Eugenics 83 -- First Stage 84 -- Second Stage 85 -- Third Stage 88 -- Fourth Stage 89 -- 6 Invisible Hand in the Human Body Shop 91 -- The Human Life Cycle 91 -- The Reproductive Cycle 92 -- Sex Hormones 94 -- Inside the Womb 95 -- Birth Defects 98 -- The Invisible Hand in Human Body Commerce 102 -- From Alchemy to Algeny 103 -- In Vitro Fertilization 105 -- IVF the Aussie Style 108 -- The Business of In Vitro Fertilization 110 -- IVF Children 111 -- Donor Insemination 112 -- DI Half-Siblings 114 -- Hello Dolly, Good-Bye Dolly 115 -- 7 Clonology 119 -- Parthenogenesis -- Virgin Birth 119 -- Cloning 120 -- Clonology 121 -- Cloning Hollywood Style 129 -- The Celebrated Dolly, But Second to Computer Chips 130 -- Clones of Clones of a Clone 134 -- Jerky Bulls and Yang Cows 136 -- Second Chance -- Clone of the Oldest Bull 137 -- Artificial Monkey Twins 138 -- Clone of a Clone -- More Bulls 140 -- Cloned Piglets 141 -- Reversing Aging 142 -- Other Notable Cloning Efforts 143 -- Jurassic Amusement Park? 144 -- More Calves and Piglets 146 -- More Endangered Species Cloned 148 -- Multi-Legged Bio-X 149 -- Multi-Legged Bio-Reactors 149 -- Multi-Legged Bio-Facturers 152 -- Nature Versus Nano 154 -- Multi-Legged Bio-Models 155 -- Multi-Legged Bio-Factories 156 -- 8 Petory and Biofactory 159 -- PerPETually Yours 159 -- K-9 Cloning 160 -- Snuppy 162 -- Dupli-Cat 164 -- Cc: Genetic Anomaly 165 -- Commercial Grade Pet Cloning 166 -- Cloning Rabbitly 168 -- A Stubborn Clone 169 -- Cloned Equine Twin of Surrogate Mother 171 -- Ethically Yours 172 -- Odd-Inarily Yours 173 -- 9 Cloning Techniques 179 -- Twins -- Twice the Fun 179 -- Nonidentical Twins -- Siblings of the Same Age 179 -- Identical Twins -- Natural Clones 180 -- Mirror Image and Conjoined Twins 181 -- Interest in Twins 183 -- Identical Twins are More Identical Than Clones 184 -- En Route to Commercialization 187 -- Artificial Twinning Technique 188 -- Nuclear Transfer Technique 191 -- The Roslin Technique 192 -- The Honolulu Technique 194 -- The Chromatin Transfer Technique 195 -- Twinning Roslin in Honolulu 197 -- Honolulu Versus Dolly 198 -- First Male Clone 199 -- 10 Reproductive Human Cloning 203 -- Super Clones? 203 -- Tinkering with Conception 204 -- Natural Birth Versus Cloning 206 -- Hardware and Software of Sexual Reproduction 207 -- Hardware and Software of Cloning 209 -- Physiology of Human Cloning 210 -- Key Human Cloning Mavericks 212 -- Richard Seed 213 -- Claude Vorilhon and Brigitte Boisselier 214 -- Severino Antinori 216 -- Panayiotis Zavos 217 -- Avi Ben-Abraham 218 -- Human Embryo "Clones" 220 -- Clone Abortion 221 -- Why Hybrid? 223 -- The "Clone" Stork -- Real or Rael? 224 -- 11 The Alchemy of Stem Cells 227 -- Organ Transplant 227 -- Growing Human Organs? 229 -- Stem Cell 231 -- Derivation of Stem Cells 232 -- Banking Embryonic and Fetal Parts 234 -- Lifeline -- Cord Blood 235 -- Multipotent Adult Stem Cells 238 -- Stem Cells from Fat 242 -- Medical Uses of Stem Cells 246 -- Stem Cell Gold Mines 247 -- Growing Breast from a Stem Cell 251 -- Regenerative Medicine 253 -- Why Regenerative Medicine? 254 -- Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research 256 -- Regeneration, Stem Cells and Aging 258 -- Master Cells and Master Genes 261 -- 12 Stem Cell Entities 265 -- Stem Cell Nations 265 -- Sweden 267 -- United Kingdom 268 -- Australia 269 -- Singapore 271 -- Israel 272 -- Japan 274 -- India 275 -- China 276 -- Korea 277 -- United States 279 -- Case Study: Harvard Stem Cell Institute 281 -- Case Study: California Institute of Regenerative Medicine 282 -- East Versus West 285 -- A Shenanigans of Scandalous Proportion 287 -- The Rise to International Stardom 288 -- The Fall from Grace 292 -- The Repercussions 301 -- How Did It Happen? 303 -- The Way to the Top 303 -- The Way to Demise 305 -- The Bits and Pieces 305 -- The Characters: Accomplices and Foes 307 -- Hwang Versus Raelians 311 -- Synopsis of the Dogged Reports 313 -- 13 Legal and Ethical Issues 317 -- How? What? Why? 317 -- Therapeutic and Reproductive Cloning 320 -- Secret Projects 321 -- Stigma of Cloning 322 -- Ten AD (After Dolly) 323 -- Cloning as an Assisted Reproductive Technology 323 -- All is Fine Unless You are the Clone 324 -- Where Science Meets the Public 326 -- Issues with Human Cloning 330 -- Cloning as Reprotech 333 -- Ethical Issues with Cloning 335 -- My Father is My Twin 335 -- Can a Clone Run for U.S. Presidency? 337 -- The Genie is Out of the Bottle 340 -- In Vitro Fertilization Debate 341 -- Reproductive Cloning De JaVu 342 -- Overcoming Legal and Ethical Impasse 343 -- Private Funding 345 -- Model Organisms 345 -- Vertebrates 346 -- Invertebrates 347 -- Plants 347 -- Microorganisms 347 -- Circumventing Ethical Impasse 348 -- Message in a Bottle from the Future 354 -- To Clone or Not to Clone? 355 -- Why? Why Not! 356 -- Clone the Law 357 -- 14 At the Crossroad 359 -- Relatively and Genetically Speaking 359 -- Divinity Versus Greed 362 -- The Invisible Hand 363 -- Fictitious Commodities 365 -- Tapping into Human Resources 366 -- Mendel and Darwin 367 -- The Invisible Body 369 -- Sexual Reproduction Versus Cloning 373 -- Excellent References 377 -- Food for Thoughts 379.

ISBN

9812568654
9789812568656
9812568662
9789812568663

OCLC

ocm75140538
75140538
SCSB-9621129

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Princeton University Library