Edited by
Robert Lanza, Chief Scientific Officer, Advanced Cell Technology, MA, USA
Adjunct Professor, Institute of Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, NC, USA
John Gearhart, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Brigid Hogan, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
Douglas Melton, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Roger Pedersen, Department of Surgery, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, UK
E. Donnall Thomas, Director Emeritus, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
James Thomson, Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
Ian Wilmut, Director, MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine
Description
First developed as an accessible abridgement of the successful
Handbook of Stem Cells,
Essentials of Stem Cell Biology
serves the needs of the evolving population of scientists, researchers, practitioners and students that are embracing the latest advances
in stem cells. Representing the combined effort of seven editors and more than 200 scholars and scientists whose pioneering work has
defined our understanding of stem cells, this book combines the prerequisites for a general understanding of adult and embryonic stem
cells with a presentation by the world's experts of the latest research information about specific organ systems. From basic biology/mechanisms,
early development, ectoderm, mesoderm, endoderm, methods to application of stem cells to specific human diseases, regulation and ethics,
and patient perspectives, no topic in the field of stem cells is left uncovered.
Audience:
researchers, grad students, and professionals working with human stem cells in biology, tissue engineering, genetics, cancer research, virology, immunology, and biotechnology
