Includes bibliographical references and index.

Isolation and characterisation of human embryonic stem cells and future applications in tissue engineering therapies / Christian Unger, James Hackland, David Preskey, Harry Moore -- Epigenetics, stem cell pluripotency and differentiation / Maria J. Barrero -- Stem cell niche and microenvironment / Marcio Alvarez-Silva -- Hematopoietic stem cells in therapy / Jos Domen and Jignesh Dalal -- Isolation and identification of neural stem/progenitor cells / Loic P. Deleyrolle and Brent A. Reynolds -- The role of epithelial-mesenchymal transition in cancer metastasis / Paul C. McDonald and Shoukat Dedhar -- Regulation of breast cancer stem cells by mesenchymal stem cells in the metastatic niche / Fayaz Malik, Hasan Korkaya, Shawn G. Clouthier and Max S. Wicha -- Isolation and identification of neural cancer stem/progenitor cells / David Bakhshinyan, Maleeha Qazi, Neha Garg, Chitra Venugopal, Nicole McFarlane and Sheila K. Singh -- Colon stem cells in colorectal cancer / Varun V. Prabhu, Wafik S. El-Deiry and Niklas Finnberg -- Prostate cancer and prostate cancer stem cells / Magdalena E. Buczek, Jerome C. Edwards and Tarik Regad -- Future applications and therapeutics stem cells and pancreatic cancer / Audrey M. Hendley and Jennifer M. Bailey -- NANOG in cancer development / Bigang Liu, and Dean G. Tang -- Liver cancer stem cells and hepatocarcinogenesis / Hirohisa Okabe, Hiromitsu Hayashi, Takatsugu Ishimoto, Kosuke Mima, Shigeki Nakagawa, Hideyuki Kuroki, Katsunori Imai, Hidetoshi Nitta, Daisuke Hashimoto, Akira Chikamoto, Takatoshi Ishiko, Toru Beppu, and Hideo Baba -- The basic science of liver cancer stem cells and hepatocarcinogenesis / Katherine S. Koch and Hyam L. Leffert -- Cancer stem cells biomarkers / Stefano Zapperi and Caterina AM La Porta -- Interatomic analysis of the stem cell marker NANOG in a prostate cancer setting / Kiran Mall and Graham Ball.

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