Essentials of Stem Cell Biology
Essentials of Stem Cell Biology Books
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This abridged version of the bestselling reference Handbook of Stem Cells, Two-Volume Set attempts to incorporate all the essential theme matter of the original two-volume edition in a single volume. The material has been reworked in an accessible format apposite for students and general readers interested in following the latest advances in stem cells, including full color presentation throughout. Although some extra language and chapters have been deleted, rigorous effort has been made to retain from the original two-volume set the material pertinent to the understanding of this exciting area of biology.
The organization of the book remains largely unchanged, combining the prerequisites for a general understanding of adult and embryonic stem cells; the tools, methods, and experimental protocols needed to study and characterize stem cells and progenitor populations; as well as a presentation by the world’s experts of what is now known about each specific organ system.
* Full-color presentation througout
* Each chapter starts with 3-5 defined glossary terms, and all of the terms are collected in a comprehensive list within the book
* References have been eliminated – now there are about 10 bibliographic entries per chapter
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Rating: 5 / 5
With his prior collaborative book, “Principles of Tissue Engineering” this text, “Essentials of Stem Cell Biology” provides the essential rationale for that curious endeavor of applied biology we call “healthcare”. Even as others are wringing hands and endlessly belaboring cost-effectiveness, access to care, competitive efficacy and other bureaucratic minutia, Bob Lanza has kept his eyes to the stars. Motivated no doubt by the thrill of discovery which truly historical thinkers delight in, and others have inspired in Dr. Lanza, mankind surely benefits from the fruits of his labors. The contents, of this book, covering a superfluity of topics and concepts, is so well organized that one may possibly read it from beginning to end as a novel or piecemeal as queries demand from an encyclopedia. The limits of this text are merely those of a corporal bound book itself. I pray the publishers will expand an online edition that can be edited and updated monthly, for that is the speed at which the future’s promises emerge. Robert Lanza is that rare individual that knows a tale, knows how to tell it well, and result in to matter-of-fact fruition all its manifest gifts. In this regard he is a kind of Steve Jobs of biology and applied life sciences.
Yet, Dr. Lanza has not forgotten his clinical roots. Even as ideal in its concepts, the data in this book are equally matter-of-fact since they provide intelligible rationales for the kind of innovative clinical procedures that each individual patient expects and prefers. All the Gaussian frequency distributions, categorical mandates and customs of clinical care, will not fill the void that emerges when a patient questions, “Isn’t there anything you can do for me as an individual, Doctor? Each compassionate, humanistic and thought clinician knows that the “average” patient is merely a statistical hypothesis and in the real world one had better have a compelling argument for each individual treatment rendered. This book provides a tissue/cell level rationale for such treatment excellence, not that collection, that boiling stew of pseudo cures, commercial nostrums, shifting consensus and folklore that jams the flow of lucid clinical plotting. Without the “North Star” of Lanza and his collaborators, the hapless clinician is sadly adrift in the intellectual seas of 21st Century life science.
Rating: 5 / 5
I have this book shipped from US to Thailand. I cannot judge that it takes only two weeks which is earlier than I expected it to be arriving. This book is a must for researcher and student who work on stem cell research. It’s a excellent reference with the most up-to-date in rank.
A unique feature of this book include the in rank about iPS cell. It really help me know what is stem cell and its application. But, the book is not for a beginner in this field. Some aspects in this book require advance knowledge in Cell biology, Immunology as well as Genetics Science. I don’t have a very strong background in cell biology at all and I know nothing about immunology and genetics at all. So I have to review those in rank first in order to know what it says in the book.
But I give more than 5 stars for this book!
Rating: 5 / 5
The 69 chapters in this book, the 2nd edition published in July 2009, together control a wealth of in rank from developmental biology and molecular biology to medicine. Many chapters control helpful diagrams and pictures to go by the side of with explanations. But, it is very mammalian-oriented, with insufficient coverage of regeneration and stem cell biology in non-mammals. In addition, this type of book should have many more references at the end of each chapter that can lead the reader to the original journal articles rather than a list of review articles. Some chapters have better lists of references than others. Overall, the Essentials of Stem Cell Biology contains more than essentials for mammalian stem cell biology, including methods, but is deficient in essentials such as non-mammalian stem cell biology and references to primary research articles.
Rating: 3 / 5
“Essentials of Stem Cell Biology belongs on the shelf of every researcher, clinician, and student who is interested in new developments in stem cell research and the correlated treatment options that are being developed.”
Rating: 5 / 5