• Episode 4.5.Frankensteins Followers

  • May 22 2022
  • Length: 10 mins
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Episode 4.5.Frankensteins Followers

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  • Frankensteins Followers. Maintenance of human cells outside the body. Issue 1. Walter Pfaller and Paul Jennings

    Although science can endeavour to do a great many things, unachievable thus far, these activities should be, but seldom are, tempered with the question, should we really do it? This is not necessarily implying a moral code to scientific activity, but at least suggests that we probably should consider the long-term consequences of certain scientific activities to human society and the environment. Indeed, scientists have struggled with the consequences of their discoveries, not least Nobel himself, who set up the Nobel prize as a reaction to being called “The father of death”, due to his discovery and financial success with dynamite. Here, we set out the basis for a series of articles entitled, Frankenstein’s Followers, Maintenance and propagation of human cells outside the body.

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0887233322000844

    https://www.moltox.chem.vu.nl/FF.html
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