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The cell : a very short introduction (Record no. 81362)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0199578753
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Personal name Allen, Terence
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Title The cell : a very short introduction
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Oxford
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Oxford University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2011
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 145 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Very short introductions
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505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note The nature of cells -- The structure of cells -- The nucleus -- The life of cells -- What cells can do -- Stem cells -- Cellular therapy -- The future of cell research.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-130) and index.
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Summary, etc. 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.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element CELLS
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Personal name Cowling, Graham
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