Cancer Stem Cells

Informationen zum Autor Lucie Laplane is a researcher in Philosophy of Science at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Institut Gustave Roussy. Klappentext A new therapeutic strategy could break the stalemate in the war on cancer by targeting not all cancerous cells but the small fraction that lie at the root of cancers. Lucie Laplane offers a comprehensive analysis of cancer stem cell theory, based on an original interdisciplinary approach that combines biology, biomedical history, and philosophy. Zusammenfassung A new therapeutic strategy could break the stalemate in the war on cancer by targeting not all cancerous cells but the small fraction that lie at the root of cancers. Lucie Laplane offers a comprehensive analysis of cancer stem cell theory! based on an original interdisciplinary approach that combines biology! biomedical history! and philosophy.

Product details

• Authors: Lucie Laplane
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2016
• EAN: 9780674088740
• ISBN: 978-0-674-08874-0
• No. of pages: 222
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 240 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Cell Biology, MEDICAL / Physiology, Oncology, Cellular biology (cytology), MEDICAL / Oncology / General, Cellular physiology