Stem Cell Now : From the Experiment That Shook the World to the New Politics of Life

by Scott, Christopher Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780131737983
• ISBN10: 0131737988
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781101213346
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-11-08
• Publisher: E P Dutton
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Summary

The time is right for a lucid, sharp account of the science behind the stem cell revolution, up through the major advances of 2005 This is BEING DIGITAL for biology, full of how cutting-edge research will affect our daily lives - Transplanting a human immune system - Bald men able to order new hair, in any colour! - The Holy Grail cell - the adult stem cell that can turn into anything How the exploding political battle in the U.S. will affect patients, science, and business Endorsed by the International Society of Stem Cell Biology, and foreword by editor of SCIENCE mag.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Donald Kennedy
Abbreviations	xii
The Experiment That Shook the World	1	(12)
The Cell	13	(10)
How We Get to How We Are	23	(16)
A Brief History of Embryonic Stem Cells	39	(20)
Hunting Adult Stem Cells	59	(16)
Seven Questions	75	(20)
The Future of Medicine	95	(28)
The Great Moral Divide	123	(28)
The Consequences of Politics	151	(32)
Epilogue	183	(6)
Notes	189	(24)
Glossary	213	(12)
Further Reading	225	(4)
Acknowledgments	229	(2)
Index	231