Published June, 2010
By William G. Newman
Publisher: Springer
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This is an up-to-date summary of the exciting new field of how genetic testing can tailor more effective prescription in oncology. It provides a core background in genetics and pharmacological principles before covering genetic tests in specific cancer types.

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Published May, 2010
By Yuti Chernajovsky and Paul D. Robbins
Publisher: Springer (Birkhauser Verlag AG)
Series: Milestones in Drug Therapy
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In this monograph about gene therapy of autoimmune and inflammatory d- orders we have gathered international experts and leaders from different fields to review the state of the art advances on topics ranging from disease entities to vectors and engineered cells.

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Published May, 2010
By Jean S. Deutsch
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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In his 1894 book, Materials for the Study of Variation, William Bateson coined the term Homoeosis with the following prose: The case of the modification of the antenna of an insect into a foot, of the eye of a Crustacean into an antenna, of a petal into a stamen, and the like, are examples of the same kind.

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Published May, 2010
By Shamim I. Ahmad and Shamim Ahmad
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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It has not been possible to cover all the DNA repair deficient diseases in this volume, hence diseases such as Bloom's syndrome, Werner's syndrome, Nijmegen breakage syndrome, ataxia telangiectasia-like disorder, RA D 50 deficiency, RIDDLE syndrome and others will be presented in a forthcoming volume.

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Published May, 2010
By Shi-Ming Tu
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Cancer Treatment and Research
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I would like to convince readers that the basic tenets of the theory of a stem-cell origin of cancers also constitute a unified theory of cancer. Stem-cell origin of normal (and cancer) cells: Vitruvian version Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized.

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Published May, 2010
By Daniel C. Chung and Daniel A. Haber
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Advances in genetics are transforming estimates of an individual's risk of developing cancer and approaches to prevention and management of cancer in those who may have increased susceptibility.

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Published May, 2010
By Domenico Coppola
Publisher: Springer
Series: Cancer Growth and Progression
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This book offers a comprehensive update on mechanisms of tumorigenesis. The first portion discusses pediatric cancer, the influence of environmental factors and oncogene activity in tumorigenesis; the second portion is structured by organ site for easy access.

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Published May, 2010
By U. Kristoffersson, J. Schmidtke, J.-J. Cassiman, Ulf Kristoffersson, Jörg Schmidtke and Joerg Schmidtke
Publisher: Springer
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With the increasing possibilities of performing molecular genetic testing, genetic laboratories needed to become involved in this process.As many genetic disorders are rare, most laboratories worldwide offered analysis for a specific set of disorders, and, therefore, very early on a transborder flow of samples occurred.

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Published May, 2010
By Bernard Perbal, Masaharu Takigawa and Annick Perbal
Publisher: Springer
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The 5th international workshop on the CCN family of genes was held in Toronto in 2008. This book comprises a series of manuscripts that are based on the original communications that were presented at the meeting by worldwide leaders in the field of CCN biology. It covers major aspects of CCN proteins biology in normal and pathological conditions.

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Published April, 2010
By Dhavendra Kumar and Perry Elliott
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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