Stem Cells

Promise and Reality

Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Medical, Medical Science, Embryology, Science & Nature, Science, Biological Sciences, Cytology
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Author: Lygia V Pereira ISBN: 9789813100213
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company Publication: August 22, 2016
Imprint: WSPC Language: English
Author: Lygia V Pereira
ISBN: 9789813100213
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Publication: August 22, 2016
Imprint: WSPC
Language: English

Stem Cells: Promises and Reality will tell you everything you have always wanted to know about stem cells, but could not understand the field from elsewhere.

Stem cells are the great therapeutic promise of the century, and this evolving field of research and medicine brings with it many legal, ethical and psychological issues that must be discussed by society as a whole.

Written so as to be accessible to general readers as well as specialists, this book explains what stem cells are, and the different aspects of stem cell research and applications. The book will enable the reader to understand the field sufficiently to critically participate in the public debates regarding stem cell research and society and ethics. By the end of the book, the reader will also be able to judge news on the stem cells field, and to discern what are real advances and what are phony treatments.

The main advantage of this book in comparison with other "stem cells for the general public" books is that it assumes the reader knows NOTHING about biology, except what is already common knowledge (for example, that we are made of cells). The book constructs step by step the required basic biology knowledge in order for the reader to understand all the different aspects of stem cells. At the same time that it is thorough in its stem cells-based content, and will keep the reader engaged with its narrative.

Contents:

  • Introduction — In Search of Eternal Life
  • Development of the Embryo
  • A Brief Introduction to Growing Cells Outside the Body, or Cell Culture
  • Regeneration and Stem Cells
  • Adult Stem Cells
  • Embryonic Stem Cells
  • Cell Therapy — Promise or Reality?
  • Outlook

Readership: Interested lay readers, researchers and medical doctors.

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Stem Cells: Promises and Reality will tell you everything you have always wanted to know about stem cells, but could not understand the field from elsewhere.

Stem cells are the great therapeutic promise of the century, and this evolving field of research and medicine brings with it many legal, ethical and psychological issues that must be discussed by society as a whole.

Written so as to be accessible to general readers as well as specialists, this book explains what stem cells are, and the different aspects of stem cell research and applications. The book will enable the reader to understand the field sufficiently to critically participate in the public debates regarding stem cell research and society and ethics. By the end of the book, the reader will also be able to judge news on the stem cells field, and to discern what are real advances and what are phony treatments.

The main advantage of this book in comparison with other "stem cells for the general public" books is that it assumes the reader knows NOTHING about biology, except what is already common knowledge (for example, that we are made of cells). The book constructs step by step the required basic biology knowledge in order for the reader to understand all the different aspects of stem cells. At the same time that it is thorough in its stem cells-based content, and will keep the reader engaged with its narrative.

Contents:

Readership: Interested lay readers, researchers and medical doctors.

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