The stem cell divide : the facts, the fiction, and the fear driving the greatest scientific, political, and religious debate of our time /

The stem cell divide : the facts, the fiction, and the fear driving the greatest scientific, political, and religious debate of our time /

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Author / Creator:Bellomo, Michael.
Imprint:New York : American Management Association, ©2006.
Description:1 online resource (ix, 262 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Subject:
Stem cells -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Embryonic stem cells -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Stem cells -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11147114
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ISBN:0814429424
9780814429426
0814408818
9780814408810
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-241) and index.
Print version record.
Summary:The debate about the merits, dangers, and nature of stem cell research rages on. Some see in it the answer to every debilitating disease known to man, while others see it as a sinister gateway to human cloning ... [This book] debunks the distortions and exaggerations that come from every camp. In the search for the truth about stem cell science, [the author] has interviewed many of the scientists whose research is at the very heart of this divisive issue. The book lays out what research has (and hasn't) accomplished so far, what current initiatives are focused on, and what may be coming in the near and distant future.
Other form:Print version: Bellomo, Michael. Stem cell divide. New York : American Management Association, ©2006 0814408818
Table of Contents:
  • Discovery of the stem cell's unique abilities
  • Morning on the devil's highway
  • Head of the hydra
  • The furnace of creation
  • The ugliest thing in medicine
  • The starter culture
  • The race to harness the power of life
  • California dreaming
  • Investing in hope and hype
  • From Roe to Dickey
  • Division on the hill
  • Stem cell superpowers
  • The rise and fall of South Korea's cloning king
  • Stem cell cures and curses
  • Therapeutic cloning and regenerative medicine
  • Resolving the debate: adult vs. embryonic stem cells
  • Germ of an idea
  • Needles and haystacks
  • Banking on cord blood
  • So close and yet so far
  • The mitochondrial barrier
  • Cautionary tales: the coming stem cell decade
  • Epilogue: the coming stem cell century.
  • Discovery of the stem cell's unique abilities
  • Morning on the devil's highway
  • Head of the hydra
  • The furnace of creation
  • The ugliest thing in medicine
  • The starter culture
  • The race to harness the power of life
  • California dreaming
  • Investing in hope and hype
  • From Roe to Dickey
  • Division on the hill
  • Stem cell superpowers
  • The rise and fall of South Korea's cloning king
  • Stem cell cures and curses
  • Therapeutic cloning and regenerative medicine
  • Resolving the debate: adult vs. embryonic stem cells
  • Germ of an idea
  • Needles and haystacks
  • Banking on cord blood
  • So close and yet so far
  • A future built on the smallest piece of life
  • The mitochondrial barrier
  • Cautionary tales: the coming stem cell decade
  • Epilogue: the coming stem cell century.

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