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It doesn't even happen in amphibians, those wondrously regenerative little creatures, some of which can regrow a cut-off limb or tail. Try to grow an organism from a frog cell, and what do you get? You get, to quote biologist Colin Stewart, "embryos rather ignominiously dying (croaking!) around...
"A fetus is a tiny chunk of protoplasm,' Bernstein said. "It is a biological growth in the body of a host organism. To be a human being requires organically formed individuation.... The fetus lacks biological individuality
This approach may be cheaper and faster than current methods, which extract protein from masses of genetically engineered bacterial, yeast or mammalian cells. Individually, the cells produce minute quantities of the desirable proteins; an entire organism could undoubtedly produce much more, scientists say.
I asked Meselson about his current research, and he explained that he was studying the question of why sex exists. He was examining a species of female pond dwellers, which live without sex and have no males, sperm or fertilization among their species. Since the species reproduces asexually, a daughter...
"Differentiation and integration are fundamental to the dynamic maturation of the human organism." (Social Relations)