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Cancer Stem Cells by Christine L. Mummery; Anja van de Stolpe; Bernard Roelen; Hans Clevers is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Cancer Stem Cells about?

The second edition of Stem Cells: Scientific Facts and Fiction provides the non-stem cell expert with an understandable review of the history, current state of affairs, and facts and fiction of the promises of stem cells. Building on success of its award-winning preceding edition, the second edition features new chapters on embryonic and iPS cells and stem cells in veterinary science and medicine. It contains major revisions on cancer stem cells to include new culture models, additional interviews with leaders in progenitor cells, engineered eye tissue, and xeno organs from stem cells, as well as new information on'organs on chips'and adult progenitor cells. In the past decades our understanding of stem cell biology has increased tremendously. Many types of stem cells have been discovered in tissues that everyone presumed were unable to regenerate in adults, the heart and the brain in particular. There is vast interest in stem cells from biologists and clinicians who see the potential for regenerative medicine and future treatments for chronic diseases like Parkinson's, diabetes, and spinal cord lesions, based on the use of stem cells; and from entrepreneurs in biotechnology who ex

Author

Christine L. Mummery; Anja van de Stolpe; Bernard Roelen; Hans Clevers

Publisher

Elsevier/AP, Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780124115675