The Dance of Life: The New Science of How a Single Cell Becomes a Human Being

Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz,Roger Highfield

The Dance of Life: The New Science of How a Single Cell Becomes a Human Being
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Basic Books
Country
United States
Published
25 February 2020
Pages
304
ISBN
9781541699069

The Dance of Life: The New Science of How a Single Cell Becomes a Human Being

Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz,Roger Highfield

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.

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