Medicine : stem cells, genes, and super-beams /
Find out: if stem cells could help cure many different diseases; if microscopic robots will one day carry out surgery inside blood vessels; and if crocodile blood and fish slime could produce important new drugs. Medicine has been practiced for thousands of years, from the use of plants as medicine,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago, Ill. :
Heinemann,
c2006.
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| Series: | Cutting edge (Chicago, Ill.).
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| Summary: | Find out: if stem cells could help cure many different diseases; if microscopic robots will one day carry out surgery inside blood vessels; and if crocodile blood and fish slime could produce important new drugs. Medicine has been practiced for thousands of years, from the use of plants as medicine, to simple procedures such as splinting broken bones. But over the last 200 years we have made huge progress. We now use tools and techniques our ancestors could never have imagined. - Back cover. |
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| Physical Description: | 56 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1403474281 (library binding-hardcover) 9781403474285 (library binding-hardcover) 1403474346 (pbk.) 9781403474346 (pbk.) 0431132615 (library binding-hardcover) 9780431132617 (library binding-hardcover) 0431132674 (pbk.) 9780431132679 (pbk.) |