Revolutionary Therapies:How the California Stem Cell Program Saved Lives, Eased Suffering

Revolutionary Therapies:How the California Stem Cell Program Saved Lives, Eased Suffering - and Changed the Face of Medicine Forever

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￥ 1066.00

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Reed Don C

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World Scientific Publishing

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2020年03月06日

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9789811213281

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250 pp

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英文

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For author Don C Reed, father of a paralyzed son, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) is the greatest medical advance since penicillin. REVOLUTIONARY THERAPIES is Reed’s third book about the $3 billion stem cell program. Voted into law in November 2004, CIRM is now running out of money. Should its funding be renewed? Thereby hangs a tale, or rather several dozen of them, for each of the book’s 71 short chapters is framed by a yarn or vignette. The factual background is accurate, vetted by the scientists, but Reed’s goal is clearly both entertainment and education. A favorite example is a little girl named Evie, imprisoned in a plastic bubble: her body’s immune system did not work, and she would die outside. She joined a CIRM clinical trial ... Imagine how Evie’s parents felt — when she got well. Some stories are comical, like "How Stem Cell Research Saved My Car"; others surprising, like the comparison between politics and the giant crocodile Gustave; others are tragic or inspiring: but all point to this: More than 100 million Americans suffer chronic disease, causing mountains of medical debt — and the only way to reduce that expense ($3 trillion last year) — is cure. Key Features: ○Complex science told in a high school level vocabulary; brief interviews with many top stem cell scientists ○Makes clear the vital necessity for public investment in research oControversial topics (fetal cell research, etc.) detailed in non-threatening manner

Introduction; The Silent Hurricane; Uncle Ben’s Kidneys; Blindness for the Old; So, You Want to Be a Stem Cell Scientist?; The One-Leg Placebo; Can We Lower the Prices of Therapies?; \"Tesi\": Or, How to Engineer an Intestine; Fighting Rett Syndrome; The Disease That Caused a Revolution?; Leader of the Board; Hitting Yourself in the Chest; The Cost of Doing Nothing; The ATM Disease; Preventing Medical Bankruptcy?; New Babies, New Scientists; Secrets for Free; Speaking Before Those Who Oppose; The First 500 Pounds — And Donald Kohn; Why Fetal Cell Research Must Be Allowed; Mom with the Miracle Child; Flat Feet and Neuropathy; Battling Schizophrenia; Of Werewolves, Plague, and the Zika Virus; Getting All the Cancer; Two Bulldogs; Other People’s Pain: Fighting Bowel Disease; Building Bone Density; Money, Hope, and Huntington’s; A Better Rat?; \"Tuesdays with Morrie\": Battling Als; Punching at Parkinson’s; Arthritis Champions; Marching for Science?; Blood, Blood, Blood!; Someone Who Gets Things Done; The Voice of CIRM; Adventures on Bridges: Humboldt State University; Inside Gloria’s Heart; Learning with Other Countries; Jobs and New Money; Scars: By Moray Eels and Other Causes; Fighting Duchenne; In Which Stem Cell Research Saves My Car; Should Scientists Run for Office?; The Strangest Thing Inside My Head; Of Crocodiles and Politics; Raja’s Story; To More Rapidly Heal a Broken Bone?; Surprises, Awkward and Otherwise; The Man with a Plan to Assassinate Cancer; Lung Cancer, and the Bent Cigarette; Introducing Madam President; Fighting Bladder Cancer; Sickle Cell — and Insults?; Two Diseases, One Therapy?; Gloria at Home; Of CIRM, and Buying My House; Cooperation with the Capitol; The Christmas Truce; Alexander’s Challenge; The Smallest Miracle; Interview with the Founder: Bob Klein; The Big Bang Theory, CIRM, and a Dolphin Named Spock; For My Son; The ISSCR Adventure; The Most Terrible Disease; The Body as Battlefield; More Victims Than Five Kinds of Cancer?; Vertigo, Chickens, and Maybe Great News?; A World Without CIRM; What We Must Do

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