Dreams and Due Diligence : : Till & McCulloch's Stem Cell Discovery and Legacy / / Joe Sornberger.

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 successiv...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
©2011
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (184 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • The Canadian Stem Cell Foundation
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part One: Discovery
  • 1. On a Sunday in 1960
  • 2. After the A-Bomb, before the Beatles
  • 3. The Impossible Partnership
  • Part Two: Development
  • 4. A Bunch of Kids Having a Good Time
  • 5. The Progeny
  • Part Three: 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
  • Notes
  • Index