Patient-Specific Stem Cells

An in-depth overview, this book covers the generation of Pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)and the current research in various labs on how the technology is being used to study the diseases and identify novel treatments. It addresses three main areas: (a) various methods of reprogramming somatic cells to derive patients specific IPS Cells, (b) Generation and differentiation of various patient specific stem cells into different tissues including neurons, retinal cells, and cardiac cells, and (c) Applications of the patient derived cells including toxicity testing, and drug discovery.