Adult Stem Cell Standardization

ISBN-13: 9788792329745 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 260 str.

Paolo Di Nardo

Opis

Stem cell research and technology represent a major challenge for treating otherwise non-curable patients. A decade of intensive research has demonstrated that initial hopes based more on the will to succeed than on solid scientific bases can be translated into factual techniques only by adopting more rigorous procedures and strategies. Among other major impediments, the failure so far experienced in applying stem cell technologies to repair parenchymal organs can be ascribed to the lack of sufficient knowledge of basic mechanisms but also to the lack of standardized criteria and protocols. Each laboratory often follows its own -recipe, - using erratic nomenclature and non-comparable, if not confusing, experimental protocols. All of this makes it difficult to learn from the others and, ultimately, hampers the advancement of knowledge on stem cell behavior.

The ambitious goal of this book is to gather the most innovative and scientifically robust knowledge and technologies on stem cells and to involve investigators from academies and industries in order to formulate recommendations that could standardize the isolation and manipulation of stem cells using solid and well-documented knowledge rather than fragmentary and often unrepeatable experimental reports.

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Adult Stem Cell Standardization

O autorze

Paolo Di Nardo