Dreams and Due Diligence

Till & McCulloch's Stem Cell Discovery and Legacy

Joe Sornberger (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

184 Seiten

2011
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4426-4485-4 (ISBN)

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In proving the existence of stem cells, Ernest Armstrong McCulloch and James Edgar Till formed the most important partnership in Canadian medical research since Frederick Banting and Charles Best, the discoverers of insulin. Together, Till and McCulloch instructed, influenced, and inspired successive generations of researchers who have used their findings to make huge advances against disease. Thousands of people who would have died from leukemia and immunological disorders now owe their lives to therapies developed from their discoveries.

Despite their accomplishments, Till and McCulloch remain largely unknown, and until now, their story has remained untold. Dreams and Due Diligence vividly chronicles the work of two researchers who made medical history – two men who possessed exactly the right complementary talents to achieve greatness and win nearly every award available in medical research. Bringing their legacy to life for the first time, Joe Sornberger provides a dramatic account of the development of stem cell research, one of today's most ground-breaking medical scientific fields.

Joe Sornberger is a writer and editor based in Ottawa.

Contents

Introduction

Part I: Discovery

1.On a Sunday in 1960

2.After the A-Bomb, before the Beatles

3.The Impossible partnership

Part II: Development

4.A bunch of kids having a good time

5.The progeny

Part III: Today and Tomorrow

6.Ethics, hope and hype

7.The evil twin: the cancer stem cell

8.The beneficiary

9.The future

10.Little fame, no Nobel

Conclusion

Zusatzinfo	17 b&w illustrations
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 236 mm
Gewicht	440 g
Themenwelt	Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Humangenetik
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zellbiologie
ISBN-10	1-4426-4485-0 / 1442644850
ISBN-13	978-1-4426-4485-4 / 9781442644854
Zustand	Neuware