The dance of life : the new science of how a single cell becomes a human being / Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Roger Highfield.
Publisher: London : WH Allen, 2020Description: vii, 289 pages , 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780753552926
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"How does life begin? What drives a newly fertilized egg to keep dividing and growing until it becomes 40 trillion cells, a greater number than stars in the galaxy? How do these cells know how to make a human, from lips to heart to toes? How does your body build itself? Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz was pregnant at 42 when a routine genetic test came back with that dreaded word: abnormal. A quarter of sampled cells contained abnormalities and she was warned her baby had an increased risk of being miscarried or born with birth defects. Six months later she gave birth to a healthy baby boy and her research on mice embryos went on to prove that – as she had suspected – the embryo has an amazing and previously unknown ability to correct abnormal cells at an early stage of its development." - Book cover
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