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On a larger scale, death has influenced the direction of entire species. In fact, death has shaped all life through the cycle of life and death, both throughout time and in normal development. It affects our cells, our development, and our life.
- About The Dead Man and Fungi
The dead man has changed his mind about moss and mold.About...
- Defining Life and Death
This chapter will focus on the biological definition of...
- Ashes to Ashes and Dust to Dust
The Biology of Death: How Dying Shapes Cells, Organisms, and...
- Future of Death
Many diseases have been conquered. However, death might be...
- Preface
Death is actually interwoven into life at many levels. It...
- Death on a Grand Scale
To understand mass extinctions, it is helpful to understand...
- About The Dead Man and Fungi
21 paź 2021 · This chapter will focus on the biological definition of death. Biologists can live comfortably with an understanding of what life and death are, but for some situations a more precise definition is mandatory. That need manifests itself legally at the extremes of life: the beginning and the end.
30 mar 2021 · Here, we summarize the latest discoveries in the three most well understood modalities of cell death, namely, apoptosis, necroptosis, and pyroptosis, highlighting common and unique pathways and...
8 cze 2023 · Later, once cell death attracted more attention among biologists, other kinds of endogenous death were identified. Examples range from the toxin-producing genes that induce death in prokaryotes to intricately regulated, complex molecular pathways in protists, fungi, plants, and animals.
1 lut 2024 · To give you some examples, Howard mentions the borderline of life and death, the struggle we have with defining life, and some of the organisms that populate the grey zone between life and non-life. He mentions major causes of death today (with an honourable mention of the mosquito ), and what killed us in the past (including a list of some ...
8 maj 2014 · While the meaning of death has many cultural, religious, and philosophical implications, medical science has unique authority for defining death as a biological phenomenon—the irreversible cessation of the functioning of the organism as a whole.
This latest book from science writer Gary C. Howard ties together the many ways that death helps us understand life. He synthesizes the involvement and relation of cells, tissues, organisms, and...
