Table of Contents

A Bongso & E H Lee: Stem Cells: Their Definition, Classification and Sources; A Bongso: From Human Embryos to Embryonic Stem Cells -- Their Derivation, Propogation and Properties; I Weissman & D Kraft: Human Hemopoietic Stem Cells; P Andrews: Characterization of Human Stem Cells; N Benvenisty & B Bulum: Undifferentiation and Differentiation in Vitro and in Vivo of Human Embryonic Stem Cells; M Pera: Multipotency, Pluripotency and Totipotency of Stem Cells; Y Itskovitz-Eldor: Subcloning, Spontaneous and Controlled Differentiation of Stem Cells; S Y Moon et al.: Therapeutic Cloning -- Derivation and Propagation of Stem Cells in the Human by Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer; M Rao: Transcriptome Profiling of Stem Cells; J Burley & J Harris: Legal and Ethical Issues Surrounding Stem Cell Biology; C Mummery: Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells to Cardiomyocytes; D Tan: Stem Cells in the Eye; J Shapiro & S Nanji: Progress in Immunological Tolerance and Islet Cell Transplantation; B Soria: Differentiation of Human Adult Stem Cells to Islet Cells of the Pancreas; P Tan: Bone Marrow Stem Cells for the Treatment of Leukemia and Other Blood Disorders; D Hutmacher: Bone Repair with Adult Stem Cells; E H Lee & J B Richardson: Stem Cells and Cartilage; J Goh: Ligament and Tendon Repair with Adult Stem Cells; A Brivanlou: Feeder-Free Derivation and Propagation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells; M Alison: Liver Stem Cells; F Faendrich: Stem Cell Transplantation in Animal Models and Their Outcome; R Calne: Challenges of Cell Based Therapies; G Daley: Human Embryonic Stem Cells and Germ Cell Development; M Carpenter: Gene Imprinting and X-Inactivation in Human Embryonic Stem Cells; M Bhatia: Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells into Blood Cells; S C Zhang: Differentiating Stem Cells into Neurons; G Schatten & C Navana: Hurdles to Overcome in Improving the Efficiency of Therapeutic Cloning.