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Nature 447, 146-147 (10 May 2007) | doi:10.1038/447146a; Published online 9 May 2007

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The stem-cell story

Justine Burley1

BOOK REVIEWEDStem Cell Now: A Brief Introduction to the Coming Medical Revolution

by Christopher Thomas Scott

Plume: 2007. 272 pp. £9.99

BOOK REVIEWEDCell of Cells: The Global Race to Capture and Control the Stem Cell

by Cynthia Fox

W. W. Norton: 2006. 512 pp. $26.95 £16.99

BOOK REVIEWEDStem Cell Wars: Inside Stories from the Frontlines

by Eve Herold

Palgrave MacMillan: 2006. 256 pp. $24.95 £15.99

The promise of stem-cell research has captured the imagination of people around the world. Given the public's intensifying interest in the area, it was perhaps inevitable that stem-cell science would enter the 'popular science' genre.