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The future of medicine is happening now.

Revolutionary new science is providing cures that were considered science fiction just a few years ago-and not with pills, surgery, or radiation, but with human cells.

Promising treatments now in extensive clinical trials could have dramatic impacts on cancer, autoimmune diseases, organ replacement, heart disease, and even aging itself. The key to these breakthroughs is the use of living cells as medicine instead of traditional drugs.

Discover the advances that are alleviating the effects of strokes, Alzheimer's disease, and even allergies. Cells Are the New Cure takes you into the world of regenerative medicine, which enables doctors to repair injured and aging tissues and even create artificial body parts and organs in the lab. Cellular medicine experts Robin L. Smith, MD, and Max Gomez, PhD, outline the new technologies that make it possible to harness the immune system to fight cancer and reverse autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes, and rheumatoid arthritis. CRISPR, a new technology for targeted gene editing, promises to eradicate genetic diseases, allowing us to live longer lives-possibly even beyond age 100 in good health.

Cells Are the New Cure takes you on a tour of the most exciting and cutting-edge developments in medicine. The content inside these pages could save your life or the life of someone you love.

Contents:

PART ONE: The Promise of Regenerative Medicine

Without a doubt, stem cell research will lead to a dramatic improvement in the human condition and will benefit millions of people. -Eli Broad

CHAPTER ONE: Repairing Injured and Aging Tissue

CHAPTER TWO: Growing New Body Parts in the Lab

CHAPTER THREE: Repairing the Brain

CHAPTER FOUR: Stem Cells and Cancer

PART TWO: Our Immune System as Weapon and Healer

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.-Hippocrates

CHAPTER FIVE: Teaching the Body to Fight Cancer

CHAPTER SIX: Stopping Autoimmune Disease

CHAPTER SEVEN: Allergies and Food Sensitivities-Peanuts, Celiac, and Beyond

CHAPTER EIGHT: The Future of Immunotherapy

PART THREE: Changing Our DNA - Rare Diseases and Designer Humans

If we could make better humans, why shouldn't we?-James Watson

CHAPTER NINE: The Gene-Repair Tool Kit

CHAPTER TEN: Repairing DNA in Rare Diseases

CHAPTER ELEVEN: Putting a Bull's-Eye on Sick Cells

CHAPTER TWELVE: Should We Alter DNA?

PART FOUR: Human 2.0

There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure. -Bernard Baruch

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Can We Prevent or Even Reverse Illness and Aging?

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: The Road to 100 Plus

PART FIVE: Big Money, Big Data, and the Future of Medicine

The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it's very tough. -Bill Gates

CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Big Data Leads to Better Medicine?

CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Philanthropy Drives Innovation

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Clinical Trials in the Era of Cellular Medicine

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Cells Will Be the Drugs of the Future

Acknowledgments

About the Authors