Carlo Alberto Redi is the Italian most influential development biologist. He addresses the public for the first time by dealing with some of the hottest issues debated today such as cloning, the beginning of life, stems cells, GMOs and research financing. In a few pages Redi also confronts those Italian decision-makers who often know nothing about the issues they make decisions on. He even attacks those scientists who sometimes make misleading declarations.

 

 

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The furious biologist

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The furious biologist

Sironi Editore® | September 2011
ISBN 978-88-518-0158-8
208 pp | € 18,00

Shortlisted for "Premio Galileo 2012"

Science, bioethics, current affairs

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The furious biologist
Carlo Alberto Redi

The book at a glance

Volcanic, eclectic, professor Redi can both argue and amuse. His only rule is giving reasons to his statements with reference to the results of the most recent scientific research.

Table of contents

 

Introduction

No financing no development

For a genetic polis

Stem cells and donation of umbilical cord

Artificial life? Synthetic biology

It’s all very well to say “life”

More clarity in GMOs

Cloning: state of the art

Biology and laity: the case of stem cells

Unnecessary  pain

The strange case of cybrids

Male and the incidental sex

Don’t leave me – within the next 6 months at least

152 B.C.

The game of seasonal variations of characters

Science and law

Digressions  

 

The author

 

Carlo Alberto Redi is professor of Zoology at Università of Pavia. Awarded in Biological Science by the Accademia dei Lincei, former member of the National Commission for the study of stem cell use, he is a member of the Italian National Committee for Biosecurity, Biotechnologies and Life Sciences, teaches and gives seminars at foreign universities, is a member of several scientific companies and works as a managing editor at the European Journal of Histochemistry. His contributions have been published by the most valuable international journals. He coordinates the research team who took part to mouse Cumulina’s cloning. He is presently in charge of genetic reprogramming of somatic cell nuclei.

 

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