Cells Are the New Cure: The Cutting-Edge Medical Breakthroughs That Are Transforming Our Health
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Overview
Revolutionary new science is providing cures that were considered science fiction just a few years ago—and not with pills, surgery, or radiation, but with human cells.
Promising treatments now in extensive clinical trials could have dramatic impacts on cancer, autoimmune diseases, organ replacement, heart disease, and even aging itself. The key to these breakthroughs is the use of living cells as medicine instead of traditional drugs.
Discover the advances that are alleviating the effects of strokes, Alzheimer's disease, and even allergies. Cells Are the New Cure takes you into the world of regenerative medicine, which enables doctors to repair injured and aging tissues and even create artificial body parts and organs in the lab. Cellular medicine experts Robin L. Smith, MD, and Max Gomez, PhD, outline the new technologies that make it possible to harness the immune system to fight cancer and reverse autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes, and rheumatoid arthritis. CRISPR, a new technology for targeted gene editing, promises to eradicate genetic diseases, allowing us to live longer lives—possibly even beyond age 100 in good health.
Cells Are the New Cure takes you on a tour of the most exciting and cutting-edge developments in medicine. The content inside these pages could save your life or the life of someone you love.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781944648848 |
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Publisher: | BenBella Books, Inc. |
Publication date: | 10/24/2017 |
Sold by: | Penguin Random House Publisher Services |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 352 |
File size: | 19 MB |
Note: | This product may take a few minutes to download. |
About the Author
Dr. Max Gomez has produced award-winning health and science segments for network stations in New York and Philadelphia. He has reported for Dateline, Today Show and 48 Hours. Over more than three decades, he's earned nine Emmy Awards, three NY State Broadcaster's Association awards and UPI's "Best Documentary" award. In addition to NYC's 'Excellence in Time of Crisis' for his September 11 coverage, Dr. Gomez has been singled out nationally for special award recognition by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and The National Marfan Foundation. He was also named the American Health Foundation's "Man of the Year." Dr. Gomez has helped organize and moderate three international scientific symposia on stem cells and cellular therapies, hosted by and held at the Vatican. Max also trains physicians nationally in public speaking and presentation, speaking to groups as diverse as the National Cancer Institute and the College of American Pathologists. He is the co-author of "Our Stem Cells – The Mysteries of Life and Secrets of Healing", a layman's guide to the medicine of the future, showcasing a wide array of emerging adult stem cell breakthroughs. Dr. Gomez also mentors undergraduate journalism students, as well as medical students and physicians who are interested in medical journalism. -
Table of Contents
PART ONE: The Promise of Regenerative Medicine
Without a doubt, stem cell research will lead to a dramatic improvement in the human condition and will benefit millions of people. —Eli Broad
CHAPTER ONE: Repairing Injured and Aging Tissue
CHAPTER TWO: Growing New Body Parts in the Lab
CHAPTER THREE: Repairing the Brain
CHAPTER FOUR: Stem Cells and Cancer
PART TWO: Our Immune System as Weapon and Healer
Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.—Hippocrates
CHAPTER FIVE: Teaching the Body to Fight Cancer
CHAPTER SIX: Stopping Autoimmune Disease
CHAPTER SEVEN: Allergies and Food Sensitivities—Peanuts, Celiac, and Beyond
CHAPTER EIGHT: The Future of Immunotherapy
PART THREE: Changing Our DNA – Rare Diseases and Designer Humans
If we could make better humans, why shouldn’t we?—James Watson
CHAPTER NINE: The Gene-Repair Tool Kit
CHAPTER TEN: Repairing DNA in Rare Diseases
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Putting a Bull’s-Eye on Sick Cells
CHAPTER TWELVE: Should We Alter DNA?
PART FOUR: Human 2.0
There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure. —Bernard Baruch
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Can We Prevent or Even Reverse Illness and Aging?
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: The Road to 100 Plus
PART FIVE: Big Money, Big Data, and the Future of Medicine
The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it’s very tough. —Bill Gates
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Big Data Leads to Better Medicine?
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Philanthropy Drives Innovation
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Clinical Trials in the Era of Cellular Medicine
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Cells Will Be the Drugs of the Future
Acknowledgments About the AuthorsWhat People are Saying About This
“Cells Are the New Cure explains the world of cutting-edge complex scientific discovery in easy-to-understand language, interweaving the human element through stories of remission and cure. As someone who is blessed to be thriving since my stem cell transplant, this book gives us hope.”
—Robin Roberts, Good Morning America
“This paradigm shift in medicine will change the way we treat disease in the very near future and advances in immunotherapy will revolutionize how we approach cancer.”
—Sean Parker, president, Parker Foundation
“Robin L. Smith and Max Gomez have illuminated one of the great frontiers in medicine for the general reader: the way aberrant cellular biology leads to disease and how cellular therapy can be harnessed to treat it.”
—Ronald A. DePinho, MD, former president, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
“Cells Are the New Cure explores the potential in modern medicine to harness the human body’s own curative abilities to battle cancer, autoimmune diseases, and many rare diseases . . . The book highlights that unique moment where science and life intersect.”
—Stephen C. Groft, PharmD, senior advisor to the director, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences