細胞の本質を考察する一冊です。それ自体を生命体ということもできる細胞は、生物体の構造上、機能上の基本単位であり、細胞を理解しその働きを知ることは、生物学領域と医学のすべてにおいて不可欠であるといえます。その基本的構造、変形、分裂、分化、シグナル伝達、そしてプログラム化された死を解き明かします。
All living things on Earth are composed of cells. A cell is the simplest unit of a self-contained living organism, and the vast majority of life on Earth consists of single-celled microbes, mostly bacteria. These consist of a simple 'prokaryotic' cell, with no nucleus. The bodies of more complex plants and animals consist of billions of 'eukaryotic' cells, of varying kinds, adapted to fill different roles - red blood cells, muscle cells, branched neurons. Each cell is an astonishingly complex chemical factory, the activities of which we have only begun to unravel in the past fifty years or so through modern techniques of microscopy, biochemistry, and molecular biology.
In this Very Short Introduction, Terence Allen and Graham Cowling describe the nature of cells - their basic structure, their varying forms, their division, their differentiation from initially highly flexible stem cells, their signalling, and programmed death. Cells are the basic constituent of life, and understanding cells and how they work is central to all biology and medicine.
1: Recognising the cell
2: The structure of the cell
3: Cell division, differentiation, and death
4: Special cells for special jobs
5: Stem cells
6: Ethics, politics, and regulation
7: Celluar therapy
8: The future is now
ISBN : 9780199578757
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