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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.

Foreword

Donald Kennedy

Abbreviations

xii

The Experiment That Shook the World

(12)

The Cell

(10)

How We Get to How We Are

(16)

A Brief History of Embryonic Stem Cells

(20)

Hunting Adult Stem Cells

(16)

Seven Questions

(20)

The Future of Medicine

(28)

The Great Moral Divide

123

(28)

The Consequences of Politics

151

(32)

Epilogue

183

(6)

Notes

189

(24)

Glossary

213

(12)

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