Edited by
M.A. Hayat

2014

Therapeutic Applications
in Disease and injury

Stem Cells are nature’s indispensable gift to multicellular organisms, including humans. This is the eleventh volume of the fourteen-volume series, Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells: Therapeutic Applications in Disease and Tissue Injury . A stem cell is defined as a cell that can self-renew and differentiate into one or more specialized cell types.