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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: PI Press 2006Description: xi, 243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780131737983
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.02774 SCO-S
Contents:
Abbreviations -- The experiment that shook the world -- The cell -- How we get to how we are -- A brief history of embryonic stem cells -- Hunting adult stem cells -- Seven questions -- The future of medicine -- The great moral divide -- The political controversy and its consequences -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Glossary -- Further reading -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: THE STEM CELL IS SET TO DOMINATE POPULAR AWARENESS OF SCIENCE LIKE THE ATOM BOMB DID A GENERATION AGO. No area of science holds such immediate promise for treating disease and improving human lives as stem cell research. But no area of science also causes such fundamental ethical concern and such ferocious political conflict.
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Book Book Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics 616.02774 SCO-S (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out to Jijil (COB230502M) 02/04/2024 DCB1254

Abbreviations -- The experiment that shook the world -- The cell -- How we get to how we are -- A brief history of embryonic stem cells -- Hunting adult stem cells -- Seven questions -- The future of medicine -- The great moral divide -- The political controversy and its consequences -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Glossary -- Further reading -- Acknowledgments.

THE STEM CELL IS SET TO DOMINATE POPULAR AWARENESS OF SCIENCE LIKE THE ATOM BOMB DID A GENERATION AGO. No area of science holds such immediate promise for treating disease and improving human lives as stem cell research. But no area of science also causes such fundamental ethical concern and such ferocious political conflict.

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