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The Cutting Edge: Medicine
Author: Anne Rooney
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| Retail Price: | $38.50 |
| Betabooks Price | $30.80 |
ISBN: 9780431132617
Format: Hardback
Published: March 2006
Published By: Heinemann Library
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Published: March 2006
Published By: Heinemann Library
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Find out:* If stem cells could help cure many different diseases
* If microscopic robots will one day carry out surgery inside blood vessels
* If crocodile blood and fish slime could produce important new drugs
Medicine has been practised for thousands of years, from the use of plants as medicine, to simple procedures such as splinting broken bones. But over the last 200 years we have made huge progress. We use tools and techniques our ancestors could never have imagined.