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Nature 446, 139-140 (8 March 2007) | doi:10.1038/446139a; Published online 7 March 2007

Immortality of a kind

Nick Hopwood1

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The ability to grow human cells in the laboratory created paradoxes of personal identity.

BOOK REVIEWEDCulturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies

by Hannah Landecker

Harvard University Press: 2007. 276 pp. $35, £22.95, euro dollar32.30