Life's Blueprint: The Science and Art of Embryo Creation by Benny Shilo

Author:Benny Shilo [Shilo, Benny]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, pdf
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014-10-27T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

Ensuring That Embryo Development Is on the Right Track

Embryogenesis is completely different from an industrial production line on which preexisting parts are assembled according to an instruction manual. It also bears no resemblance to the casting of identical sculptures using a fixed mold. We should regard each embryo as a novel creation, guided by numerous and successive events of communication among cells. Perhaps a good analogy would be the production of multiple wheel-thrown ceramic bowls. Each bowl is made anew, but if the ceramics artist is skilled, the same motions can be accurately repeated to generate similar, although not necessarily identical, bowls (fig. 26). With this view in mind, it becomes even more compelling to explore how embryos of each species are made in such a reproducible manner.

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