Stem Cell Research For Dummies offers a balanced, plain-English look at this politically charged topic, cutting away the hype and presenting the facts for readers, free from debate. It explains what stem cells are and what they do, the legalities of harvesting them and using them in research, the latest research findings from the U.S. and abroad, and the prospects for medical stem cell therapies in the short and long term.

M. William Lensch, PhD (Cambridge, MA) is an instructor in Pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School, Staff Scientist in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at Children's Hospital in Boston, and affiliated faculty of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. His primary research contributions using both adult and embryonic stem cells have been widely published and cited in the biomedical literature as have his policy, ethics, and perspective pieces on the challenges of conducting of stem cell research. Nancy Hall (Madison, CT) is a renowned medical, health, and psychology writer and the coauthor of Menopause For Dummies, 2nd Edition (978-0-470-05343-0)