Cell of Cells: The Global Race to Capture and Control the Stem Cell

From a lab in the Sahara, where one problem is sand in the petri dishes, to an Israeli lab that narrowly escapes a terrorist bomb, stem cells have gone global. Not only are the cells studied in an escalating number of labs--and lands--but they are already being used. In Japan, a respected doctor uses the cells to make small women better endowed. In Connecticut, stem cell technology has created cloned cows that roam the hills displaying eerily identical personalities. In Texas, stem cells rejuvenate dying hearts. In China, clinics offer stem cells to patients suffering from everything from paralysis to brain trauma.

In elegant, cogent prose, science journalist Cynthia Fox has illuminated the reality and promise of stem cell therapies. Cell of Cells illustrates how the extensive, fervent experimentation currently under way is causing a revolution, both in the body and in the international body politic.

Author: Cynthia Fox
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 03/17/2007
Pages: 562
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.71lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.14d
ISBN13: 9780393342536
ISBN10: 0393342530
BISAC Categories:
- Science | Life Sciences | Cell Biology
- Science | Biotechnology
- Medical | Emergency Medicine