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5. Tissue-specific stem cells
Jonathan Slack
in Stem Cells: A Very Short Introduction
‘Tissue-specific stem cells’ considers the stem cells found in the postnatal body that are responsible for tissue renewal, or for repair following damage. Only the renewal tissues really ...
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6. Current therapy with tissue-specific stem cells
Jonathan Slack
in Stem Cells: A Very Short Introduction
‘Current therapy with tissue-specific stem cells’ examines the most important type of current stem cell therapy — haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). HSCT covers bone marrow ...
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4. Potential therapies using pluripotent stem cells
Jonathan Slack
in Stem Cells: A Very Short Introduction
‘Potential therapies using pluripotent stem cells’ examines some of the diseases that may be the first to be treated by cell therapy using pluripotent stem cells. Pluripotent stem cells may ...
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5. What cells can do
Terence Allen and Graham Cowling
in The Cell: A Very Short Introduction
‘What cells can do’ examines varied examples of cell specialisms that allow an organism to protect itself and respond to its environment. Firstly, it considers cells at the surface — ...
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3. Personalized pluripotent stem cells
Jonathan Slack
in Stem Cells: A Very Short Introduction
‘Personalized pluripotent stem cells’ looks at cloning. This connection to stem cell biology lies in the potential routes that have been sought to make personalized pluripotent stem cells ...
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7. Cellular therapy
Terence Allen and Graham Cowling
in The Cell: A Very Short Introduction
Most diseases have cellular origins. The majority can be traced to simple biochemical imbalances that can often be corrected by drugs. ‘Cellular therapy’ shows that some complex diseases, ...
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Stem Cells: A Very Short Introduction
Jonathan Slack
Stem Cells: A Very Short Introduction introduces stem cells: explains what they are, what scientists do with them, what stem cell therapies are available today, and how they ...
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1. What are stem cells?
Jonathan Slack
in Stem Cells: A Very Short Introduction
‘What are stem cells?’ defines a stem cell as a cell that can both reproduce itself and generate offspring of different functional cell types. The difference between tissue-specific stem ...
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6. Stem cells
Terence Allen and Graham Cowling
in The Cell: A Very Short Introduction
How are the billions of cells in our bodies made? In plants and animals, there are cells capable of producing every type of cell the organism will need from birth to death. Once an organism ...
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10. A glance into the future
Michael Dunn and Tony Hope
in Medical Ethics: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)
The future of medical ethics, the ways in which it will develop and change, will be largely determined by the nature of the new situations that arise. ‘A glance into the future’ suggests ...
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7. Epilogue: the future of blood
Chris Cooper
in Blood: A Very Short Introduction
For a long time, synthetic biologists have attempted to manufacture an artificial, easily stored and transported, blood substitute that does not require blood typing, is long lasting, and ...
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6. Cell differentiation and stem cells
Lewis Wolpert
in Developmental Biology: A Very Short Introduction
The development of many different cell types such as muscle, blood, and skin is known as cell differentiation. ‘Cell differentiation and stem cells’ shows how this first occurs in the ...
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2. Embryonic stem cells
Jonathan Slack
in Stem Cells: A Very Short Introduction
‘Embryonic stem cells’ looks at mammalian embryo development and how embryonic stem (ES) cells are grown. ES cells are grown in tissue culture from the inner cell mass of a mammalian ...
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Introduction
Lewis Wolpert
in Developmental Biology: A Very Short Introduction
That we develop from a single cell, the fertilized egg, just one tenth of a millimetre in diameter— smaller than a full stop—is amazing. That egg has all the information to develop into a ...
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The Cell: A Very Short Introduction
Terence Allen and Graham Cowling
The Cell: A Very Short Introduction describes the nature of cells — their basic structure, their varying forms, their division, their differentiation from initially highly ...
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8. The future of cell research
Terence Allen and Graham Cowling
in The Cell: A Very Short Introduction
‘The future of cell research’ examines new directions and how they might evolve. Some involve the understanding of how cellular behaviour can change so dramatically after subtle changes at ...
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5. Fungi as parasites of plants
Nicholas P. Money
in Fungi: A Very Short Introduction
Parasitic fungi that grow on plants have reshaped the biosphere and caused the deaths of millions of people since the beginning of agriculture. Dutch elm disease and chestnut blight are ...
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4. Synthetic biology and healthcare
Jamie A. Davies
in Synthetic Biology: A Very Short Introduction
‘Synthetic biology and healthcare’ explains how synthetic biology can be applied to medicine: it can be used to produce drugs and new vaccines; improve monitoring and diagnosis; and it is ...
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7. Realistic and unrealistic expectations
Jonathan Slack
in Stem Cells: A Very Short Introduction
‘Realistic and unrealistic expectations’ considers the future potential of stem cell biology. New centres such as the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine have been set up ...
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