Amazon.com description: Product Description: This volume focuses on recent advances in the basic and clinical applications of stem cells. These are some of the most timely and most important topics currently being addressed in this field. The volume includes several chapters focusing on pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) and adult stem cells (ASCs) and their clinical applications. The sections on PSCs include information on the ethics and patents in stem cell research, the use of stem cells for drug screening, and the use of genome editing technology in PSCs. The potential use of PSCs for modeling of kidney, motor neuron diseases, and diabetes as well as their application in cancer is also discussed in this volume. The sections on ASCs describe the current knowledge on banking of umbilical cord stem cells and the use of multipotential stromal cells (MSCs) for bone repair and their cellular interactions during fracture repair stages. The therapeutic applications of neural crest stem cells and lung stem cells are also discussed in this volume. The chapters were written by world-renowned scientists in the field of PSCs and ASCs, presenting cutting-edge studies of interest to academics, researchers, physicians and readers with general interests in the stem cell and regenerative medicine fields. Thus, this book is valuable for a broad audience.