How Long to Read How Does Germline Regenerate?

How Long Does it Take to Read How Does Germline Regenerate??

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 53 minutes to read How Does Germline Regenerate? by Kate MacCord

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A concise primer that complicates a convenient truth in biology--the divide between germ and somatic cells--with far-reaching ethical and public policy ramifications. Scientists have long held that we two have kinds of cells--germ and soma. Make a change to germ cells--say using genome editing--and that change will appear in the cells of future generations. Somatic cells are "safe" after such tampering; modify your skin cells, and your future children's skin cells will never know. And, while germ cells can give rise to new generations (including all of the somatic cells in a body), somatic cells can never become germ cells. How did scientists discover this relationship and distinction between somatic and germ cells--the so-called Weismann Barrier--and does it actually exist? Can somatic cells become germ cells in the way germ cells become somatic cells? That is, can germ cells regenerate from somatic cells even though conventional wisdom denies this possibility? Covering research from the late nineteenth century to the 2020s, historian and philosopher of science Kate MacCord explores how scientists came to understand and accept the dubious concept of the Weismann Barrier and what profound implications this convenient assumption has for research and policy, from genome editing to stem cell research, and much more.

How long is How Does Germline Regenerate??

How Does Germline Regenerate? by Kate MacCord is 172 pages long, and a total of 43,344 words.

This makes it 58% the length of the average book. It also has 53% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read How Does Germline Regenerate? Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 56 minutes to read How Does Germline Regenerate? aloud.

What Reading Level is How Does Germline Regenerate??

How Does Germline Regenerate? is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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