California Cures!:How The California Stem Cell Program is Fighting Your Incurable Disease!

California Cures!:How The California Stem Cell Program is Fighting Your Incurable Disease!

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发货周期：预计3-5周发货

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Reed Don C

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World Scientific Publishing

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2018年03月19日

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Thirteen years ago, America faced an epidemic of chronic disease: cancer, paralysis, blindness, arthritis, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes and more. But California voters said "YES!" to a $3 billion stem cell research program: the awkwardly-named California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). Born into battle, the scrappy little state agency was immediately blocked by three years of anti-science lawsuits — but it defeated them all. And then? A quiet triumph. With a focused intensity like the Manhattan Project (but for peaceful purposes, not to build a bomb), scientists funded by CIRM took on the challenges: disease and disability called chronic: incurable. In a series of connected stories, accurate though written to entertain, "California Cures" relates a war: science against disease, with lives on the line. Think what it means for a paralyzed young man to recover the use of his hands, or for a formerly-blind mother to see her teenaged children — for the first time! Do you know the "bubble-baby" syndrome? Infants without a proper immune system typically die young; a common cold can kill. But for eighteen babies in a stem cell clinical trial, a different future: they were cured of their disease. No one can predict the pace of science, nor say when cures will come; but California is bringing the fight. The reader will meet the scientists involved, the women and men behind the microscope, and share their struggle. Above all, "California Cures" is a call for action. Washington may argue about the expense of health care (and who will get it), but California works to bring down the mountain of medical debt: stem cell therapies to ease suffering, and save lives. Will California build on success — and invest $5 billion more in stem cell research? "We have the momentum", says author Don C Reed, "We dare not stop short. Chronic disease threatens everyone — we are fighting for your family, and mine!"

Introduction: Evangelina and the Golden State; The Absolute Minimum You Need to Know First; To Breathe, or Not to Breathe; The Strongest Man in the World; When the Dolphin Broke My Ear; The Boy with Butterfly Skin; The Great Baldness \"Comb-Over\" Replacement?; \"He Sees! He Sees!\"; Cop at the Window; \"Go West, Young (Wo)Man\" — To a Biomed Career?; And How Will You be Paying for that New Heart?; The Answer to Cancer?; A Political Obstacle to Heart Disease Cure?; Your Friend, the Liver!; \"Bring ’em Back Alive\"; The Color of Fat; Revenge for My Sister; A Story with No Happy Ending?; Aging and Stem Cells; The \"Impending Alzheimer’s Healthcare Disaster\"; President Trump’s Great Stem Cell Opportunity; Leiningen’s Ants and Parkinson’s Disease; On the Morality of Fetal Cell Research; Democracy and Gloria’s Knees; Three Children, and the Eternal Flame; Autism, Mini-Brains, and the Zika Virus; Why \"The Big Bang Theory\" Matters to Me; Musashi and the Two-Sword Solution; \"The Magnificent Seven\"; The Connecticut Commitment; In Memory of Beau; To Relocate Alligators, or Turn a Country on to Biomed?; Whale Sharks and Outer Space; Mr Science Goes to Washington?; When Oklahoma is Not Ok; James Bond and Melanoma; Neurological Diseases vs. California; Driving to the Storm; Door into Tomorrow; Stem Cell Battles — On Times Square?; Annette, Richard Pryor, and Multiple Sclerosis; Mike Pence, and Reproductive Servitude; Motorcycle Wrecks and Complex Fractures; Even Dracula Gets Arthritis; Tugboat for Cure; Wheelchair Warriors, Take Back Your Rights!; Sickle Cell Disease vs. Stem Cell Agency; Dwight Clark, \"The Catch,\" and A L S; A Friend is Lost; Dying in Doonesbury, Fighting Back at UCD; The Man with the Autographed Baseball; The Gorilla Gynecologist Returns; Wrestling the Invisible Enemy; Two Warriors Named Joan; An End to Heroism?; Message from the Middle Kingdom; Scientists and the Undocumented; The Girl, the Bandit, and Women in Science; The Greatest Proposal; Forty-Two California Clinical Trials; Gathering of Champions; Goodbye, Hello!; The Answer; A Nobel Prize for Bob Klein?; Afterword: For More Information; Personal Message; Name Index; Subject Index;

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