A cultural studies account of how the "bio-value" of blood, stem cells, organs, and cell lines moves back and forth between 'gift' and 'commodity'
"As new medical technologies are developed, more and more human tissues - such as skin, bones, heart valves, embryos, and stem cell lines - are stored and distributed for therapeutic and research purposes. The accelerating circulation of human tissue fragments raises profound so…
Web derivatives
by Kenyon, Hewitt, Morse, A. P.
fromMemoirs of the American Mathematical Society
After some measure-theoretic preliminaries, the notion of web is defined and used to construct a dimension- and metric-free setting for the differentiation of non-negative valued set functions. Conditions which guarantee the frequent existence of the derivative of one such funct…
""Mechanotransduction" is the term for the ability, first described by 19th-century anatomist Julius Wolff, of living tissues to sense mechanical stress and respond by tissue remodeling. More recently, the scope of mechanotransduction has been expanded to include the sensation o…
""Mechanotransduction" is the term for the ability, first described by 19th-century anatomist Julius Wolff, of living tissues to sense mechanical stress and respond by tissue remodeling. More recently, the scope of mechanotransduction has been expanded to include the sensation o…
Biointerfaces: where material meets biology
Textiles in automotive engineering
by Fung, Walter, Hardcastle, Mike, Textile Institute