¿Una progenie espantosa? El futuro del cultivo de humanos

Autores/as

  • Philip Ball Escritor y comunicador científico (Londres, Reino Unido).

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.12.20651

Palabras clave:

ingeniería de tejidos, células madre, organoides, reprogramación celular, transhumanismo

Resumen

Las biotecnologías actuales no solo ofrecen nuevas posibilidades para la medicina, también están transformando lo que entendemos por ser humano. Concretamente, el descubrimiento de la extrema plasticidad de las células –la posibilidad de intercambiar tipos de tejidos y de regenerar el estado celular embrionario a partir del cual crecemos– nos obliga a enfrentarnos al hecho de que somos una comunidad contingente de células vivas, y desafía las ideas tradicionales de autoconsciencia e identidad. En este artículo se exploran algunas de estas tecnologías y sus implicaciones sociales, éticas y filosóficas.

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Biografía del autor/a

Philip Ball, Escritor y comunicador científico (Londres, Reino Unido).

Escritor y comunicador científico (Londres, Reino Unido). Ha trabajado como editor en Nature. Entre sus muchos libros sobre la ciencia y sus interacciones con la cultura general destacan  Al servicio del Reich. La física en tiempos de Hitler  (2014),  Cuántica: Qué significa la teoría de la ciencia más extraña  (2018) y  Cómo crear un ser humano  (2020), todos publicados en castellano por la editorial Turner Libros.

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Aach, J., Lunshof, J., Iyer, E., & Church, G. M. (2017). Addressing the ethical issues raised by synthetic human entities with embryo-like features. eLife, 6, e20674. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.20674Adli, M. (2018). The CRISPR tool kit for genome editing and beyond. Nature Communications, 9, 1911. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04252-2Bernal, J. D. (1970). The world, the flesh and the devil: An enquiry into the future of the three enemies of the rational soul. Jonathan Cape. (Original work published in 1931).Boland, M. J., Hazen, J. L., Nazor, K. L., Rodriguez, A. R., Gifford, W., Martin, G., Kupriyanov, S., & Baldwin, K. K. (2009). Adult mice generated from induced pluripotent stem cells. Nature, 461, 91–94. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature08310Greely, H. T. (2016). The end of sex and the future of human reproduction. Harvard University Press.Greely, H. T. (2021). CRISPR people: The science and ethics of editing humans. MIT Press.Harrison, S. E., Sozen, B., Christodoulou, N., Kyprianou, C., & Zernicka-Goetz, M. (2017). Assembly of embryonic and extraembryonic stem cells to mimic embryogenesis in vitro. Science, 356(6334), eaal1810. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aal1810Kim, J., Koo, B. K., & Knoblich, J. A. (2020). Human organoids: Model systems for human biology and medicine. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 21, 571–584. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41580-020-0259-3Kojima, J., Fukuda, A., Taira, H., Kawasaki, T., Ito, H., Kuji, N., Isaka, K., Umezawa, A., & Akutsu, H. (2017). Efficient production of trophoblast lineage cells from human induced pluripotent stem cells. Laboratory Investigation, 97, 1188–1200. https://doi.org/10.1038/labinvest.2016.159Li, F., Hu, J., & He, T.-C. (2017). iPSC-based treatment of age-related macular degeneration (AMD): The path to success requires more than blind faith. Genes & Disease, 4(2), 41–42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gendis.2017.03.001More, M., & Vita-More, N. (Eds.). (2013). The transhumanist reader. Wiley-Blackwell.Nagoshi, N., Tsuji, O., Nakamura, M., & Okano, H. (2019). Cell therapy for spinal cord injury using induced pluripotent stem cells. Regenerative Therapy, 11, 75–80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reth.2019.05.006Payne, N. L., Sylvain, A., O’Brien, C., Herszfeld, D., Sun, G., & Bernard, C. C. A. (2015). Application of human induced pluripotent stem cells for modeling and treating neurodegenerative diseases. New Biotechnology, 32(1), 212–228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbt.2014.05.001Pera, M. (2017). Embryogenesis in a dish. Science, 356(6334), 137–138. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aan1495Saitou, M., & Miyauchi, H. (2016). Gametogenesis from pluripotent stem cells. Cell Stem Cell, 18(6), 721–735. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2016.05.001Simunovic, M., & Brivanlou, A. H. (2017). Embryoids, organoids and gastruloids: New approaches to understanding embryogenesis. Development, 144(6), 976–985. https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.143529Squier, S. M. (2004). Liminal lives: Imagining the human at the frontiers of biomedicine. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822386285Tang, P. C., Hashino, E., & Nelson, R. F. (2020). Progress in modeling and targeting inner ear disorders with pluripotent stem cells. Stem Cell Reports, 14(6), 996–1008. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stemcr.2020.04.008Takahashi, K., Tanabe, K., Ohnuki, M., Narita, M., Ichisaka, T., Tomodad, K., & Yamanaka, S. (2007). Induction of pluripotent stem cells from adult human fibroblasts by defined factors. Cell, 131(5), 861–872. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2007.11.019Takahashi, K., & Yamanaka, S. (2006). Induction of pluripotent stem cells from mouse embryonic and adult fibroblast cultures by defined factors. Cell, 126(4), 663–676. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2006.07.024

 

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02-02-2022

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Ball, P. (2022). ¿Una progenie espantosa? El futuro del cultivo de humanos. Metode Science Studies Journal, (12), 153–159. https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.12.20651
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