We find risk everywhere--from genetically modified crops, medical malpractice, and stem-cell therapy to heartbreak, online predators, identity theft, inflation, and robbery. They arise from our own acts and they are imposed on us. In this Very Short Introduction, Baruch Fischhoff and John Kadvany draw on both the sciences and humanities to illuminate both the similarities and differences of var…
Currently, the origins ofin vitrocell lines are highly biased towards humans.Around 75% of the total number of established cell lines are from Hominidae origin(96,862/128,799) and over 97% are of mammalian origin (126,033/128,799) (Bairoch2018) (Figure 1). However, mammals represent only 0.4% (1.3% when excluding theInsecta taxon) of the extant identified metazoan evolution (Zhang 2013; Wilson …