EL CONOCIMIENTO ES LA VIDA

Las células madre son células no especializadas que tienen la capacidad de transformarse en muchos tipos de células diferentes del organismo. Cuando a finales de los años noventa se conoció la existencia de las células madre embrionarias surgió la idea de aprovechar los embriones «sobrantes» de la práctica de la fecundación in vitro. Sin embargo, esta utilización plantea serios problemas técnicos y éticos. Los primeros se refieren a las dificultades de aplicación al constatarse un doble problema tras el trasplante: el rechazo inmunológico y la formación de tumores. El grave...

In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place―in constant chemical flux, covered with churning seas, crafting its landscape through incessant volcanic eruptions. Amid all this tumult and disaster, life began. The earliest living things were no more than membranes stretched across microscopic gaps in rocks, where boiling hot jets of mineral-rich water gushed out from cracks in the ocean floor. Although these membranes were leaky, the environment within them became different from the raging maelstrom beyond. These havens of order slowly refined the generation of energy, using it to...

Biographies and bibliographies of members are included in many of the volumes. Lists of members are usually given on covers of the numbers.

Biographies and bibliographies of members are included in many of the volumes. Lists of members are usually given on covers of the numbers.