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Tables of Contents for Extreme Science
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Introduction
1
4
Our Bodies in the Future
Making Methuselah
5
10
Growing New Organs
15
11
Tissue Engineering
26
6
Suggested Reading
32
1
When Things Go Really Wrong
How Cancer Arises
33
14
Outbreak Not Contained
47
4
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
51
3
Deadly Enigma
54
4
By the Numbers: Health Care Costs
58
3
Mutations Galore
61
3
Suggested Reading
64
1
Using Biochemistry onthe Defensive
Embryonic Stem Cells for Medicine
65
7
Encapsulated Cells as Therapy
72
13
Couture Cures: This Drug's for You
85
5
Personal Pills
90
4
Suggested Reading
94
1
Working with the Genome
The Human Genome Business Today
95
8
The Other Genomes
103
3
Designer Genomes
106
7
Suggested Reading
113
1
What Can We Do with Gene Therapy?
Gene Therapy
114
3
Overcoming the Obstacles to Gene Therapy
117
13
Gene Therapy for Cancer
130
8
Gene Therapy for AIDS
138
3
Suggested Reading
141
1
What Can We Do with Cloning?
I, Clone
142
7
Cloning for Medicine
149
8
Is Quiescence the Key to Cloning?
157
1
Suggested Reading
158
1
Extreme Biology
Biochemist Baruch S. Blumberg: The Search for Extreme Life
159
5
Car Parts from Chickens
164
3
Building a Brainier Mouse
167
9
The Basics: A Mouse Named Doogie
176
1
Testing Doogie: Putting the Smart Mouse through Its Paces
177
1
The Search for a Memory-Boosting Drug
178
2
Cornbinatorial Chemistry and New Drugs
180
10
Building the Better Bug
190
11
Suggested Reading
201
2
Taking Humankind to the Extreme
Head Transplants
203
4
The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine
207
9
Nosing Out a Mate
216
6
Are You Ready for a New Sensation?
222
9
Index
231
13
Photo Credits
244