Cell Culture for Universal Application: Foundations, Diversity Crisis, and the Path Forward - Couverture rigide

Badal, Simone

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 303228872X ISBN 13 : 9783032288721

Editeur : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2026

Synopsis

This is the first cell culture textbook to place health equity at its foundation. While traditional texts teach students how to culture cells, this groundbreaking work asks the critical question they ignore: whose cells are we culturing, and who gets left behind? Written by Dr. Simone Badal—who developed the first Caribbean-derived cancer cell lines and discovered ancestry-specific drug responses that challenge decades of assumptions—this set of companion volumes exposes the hidden crisis in biomedical research: cell line collections systematically exclude most of the world's populations, undermining precision medicine's promise and perpetuating health disparities.

Volume I: Foundations, Diversity Crisis, and the Path Forward moves from essential techniques and historical context through rigorous analysis of representation gaps, their clinical consequences, and actionable solutions. Students learn not just cell culture methodology, but why the field's homogeneity matters and how to build truly representative research programs.

Volume II: Laboratory Manual and Implementation, the companion volume to this text, provides practical protocols, troubleshooting guides, and quality control standards—with explicit attention to adapting techniques for resource-limited settings and developing diverse cell models.

Together, this two-volume set of textbooks prepare the next generation of scientists to conduct rigorous research that serves global health equity, not just convenient populations. Integrated learning objectives, case studies linking cellular biology to clinical outcomes, critical thinking exercises, and comprehensive teaching resources make complex concepts accessible while maintaining scientific rigor. This is an essential resource for those studying cell biology and cancer biology, training in biomedical research and pharmaceutical sciences, and anyone committed to precision medicine that works for diverse populations.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Simone Badal, PhD, is a senior lecturer and anti-cancer researcher at The University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. She is known for the creation of the first ever prostate and breast cancer cells lines that were derived from Black people, for which she was awarded the prestigious Anthony N. Sabga Award for Innovative Cancer Research. She was selected for the 2024 Springer Nature and Breast Cancer Research Foundation Rising Scholars Program, received the 2022 Flair Distinguished Award for Science & Technology, and was recognized as a pioneer by Jamaica's Scientific Research Council among her long list of noteworthy achievements.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 303228872X
• ISBN 13: 9783032288721
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 488
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