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• Title:The stem cell divide : the facts, the fiction, and the fear driving the greatest scientific, political, and religious debate of our time / Michael Bellomo.
  
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• Author/Creator:Bellomo, Michael.
  
• Published/Created:New York : American Management Association, ©2006.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QH588.S83 B45 2006
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Stem cells--Research--Moral and ethical aspects.
  Embryonic stem cells--Research--Moral and ethical aspects.
  
• Medical Subjects: Embryo Research--ethics.
  Stem Cells--cytology.
  Embryonic Stem Cells--cytology.
  Stem Cell Transplantation--trends.
  California.
  United States.
  
• Description:ix, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  
• 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.-Dust jacket.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780814408810
  0814408818
  
• Contents:Pt. I. Discovery of the stem cell's unique abilities
  1. Morning on the devil's highway
  2. Head of the Hydra
  3. furnace of creation
  4. ugliest thing in medicine
  5. starter culture
  Pt. II. race to harness the power of life
  6. California dreaming
  7. Investing in hope and hype
  8. From Roe to Dickey
  9. Division on the Hill
  10. Stem cell superpowers
  11. rise and fall of South Korea's cloning king
  Pt. III. Stem cell cures and curses
  12. Therapeutic cloning and regenerative medicine
  13. Resolving the debate : adult vs. embryonic stem cells
  14. Germ of an idea
  15. Needles and haystacks
  16. Banking on cord blood
  17. So close and yet so far
  18. Cautionary tales : the coming stem cell decade
  20. Epilogue : the coming stem cell century
  App. A. Protocols and nutrient mixes for culturing human cells
  App. B. California Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative : selected text from California Proposition 71.