Article
Ontogeny, Ontology, and Phylogeny: Embryonic Life and Stem Cell Technologies
2003-12-01
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Biomedicine and biotechnology increasingly draw on marginal forms of living tissue as sources of therapeutic substances. More and more biomedical treatments rely on the collection, storage, transformation, and redistribution of tissues, the development of new kinds of "separable, exchangeable, and reincorporable body parts." 1 Some of these tissues—cancerous cells, placentas, DNA extracted from saliva—are consider...
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- Literature Corpus work
- d516ea89-de52-5bbc-905e-2b88198335a8
- DOI
- 10.1353/con.2004.0015