★Awarded a star by Kirkus Reviews for "remarkable merit"
Foreword
"The last century of biology can be seen as one of reductionism: all of biology reduced to genes and DNA -- from Mendel's experiment with peas to the sequencing of the human genome. The significance of this molecular reduction for biology and medicine is just beginning to be appreciated and it will resonate for decades to come.
This next century will be the century of cells. Cells make more cells; indeed, cells, not genes, could be said to be the units of biology. In this book, Leo Furcht and William Hoffman explore why this 'biorenaissance' is happening now and why it is centered on cells, and stem cells in particular."
Brock Reeve, executive director, Harvard Stem Cell Institute. From the Foreword to The Stem Cell Dilemma.
Brock Reeve. Photo by the Harvard University Gazette
