Cell of Cells

From a lab in the Sahara where one problem is sand in the petri dishes to an Israeli lab that narrowly escapes a terrorist bomb stem cells have gone global. Not only are the cells studied in an escalating number of labsand landsbut they are already being used. In Japan a respected doctor uses the cells to make small women better endowed. In Connecticut stem cell technology has created cloned cows that roam the hills displaying eerily identical personalities. In Texas stem cells rejuvenate dying hearts. In China clinics offer stem cells to patients suffering from everything from paralysis to brain trauma. In elegant cogent prose science journalist Cynthia Fox has illuminated the reality and promise of stem cell therapies. Cell of Cells illustrates how the extensive fervent experimentation currently under way is causing a revolution both in the body and in the international body politic.