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!!Flesh Made New: The Unnatural History and Broken Promise of Stem Cells
!John Rasko

__"Flesh Made New: The Unnatural History and Broken Promise of Stem Cells", a publication by [Professor John Rasko|Member/Rasko_John_Edward_Joshua] MAE, together with Carl Power was recently translated into [Hungarian|https://gingkokiado.hu/termek/elet-re-generalva] and was launched by Prof. Rasko at a conference in Budapest late last year.__
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__Prof. Rasko was elected as a new member of the [Basic and Clinical Translational Sciences section|Acad_Main/Sections/Basic_and_Clinical_Translational_Sciences] this year.__

!About the book

For decades, we've been anticipating the dawn of regenerative medicine. Again and again, we've been promised that stem cells will soon cure just about every ill imaginable. If not tomorrow, then the next day, or the day after that, and so on. We're still waiting.
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This book is an antidote to hype and a salve to soothe the itch for stem-cell salvation. In it, Professor John Rasko, a leading physician-scientist, and writer-historian Carl Power take us on a wild historical tour of this scandal-prone field. They expose all the dirty little secrets that the hype merchants prefer to ignore - the blunders and setbacks, confusions and delusions, tricks and lies. You'll meet Alexis Carrel, who discovered how to cultivate cells in a test tube: celebrity surgeon, scientific genius and suspected Nazi sympathiser, he opened the field of modern cell science with an experiment so bogus it blocked the way forward for the next 50 years. You'll meet Don Thomas, who developed bone marrow transplantation - the first successful stem-cell therapy - but only after a miserable decade in which most of his patients died. Alongside true stem-cell pioneers, you'll meet charlatans who cooked their data and claimed fake cures - sometimes with fatal consequences.
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Is there any good news? Which of the many promises of stem-cell research have been kept? And what of the future? Rasko and Power insist that we can only know where we're going if we have a sense of where we've been. __Their study tears down the hype surrounding stem cells in order to reveal what's still worth hoping for.__
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__ISBN-13:__ 978-1-4607-1146-0\\
__Publication date:__ 2021\\
__Hungarian translation:__ 2025
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!About John Rasko

Professor John E. J. RASKO AO, BSc (Med), MBBS (Hons), PhD, MAICD, FFSc(RCPA), DSc (Hon) UTAR, FRCPA, FRACP, FAAHMS is an Australian pioneer in the application of adult stem cells and genetic therapy as a clinical haematologist, pathologist and scientist. After he established it in 1999, he directed the Department of Cell and Molecular Therapies at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and the Gene and Stem Cell Therapy Program at the Centenary Institute, University of Sydney until 2024. He was the President of the International Society for Cell & Gene Therapy (2018 - 2020).\\
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With ~300 career publications, he has an international reputation in gene and stem cell therapy, experimental haematology and molecular biology. He has contributed to the understanding of stem cells and blood cell development, gene therapy technologies, cancer causation and treatment, human genetic diseases, molecular biology, human research ethics and regulation. 
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He serves on Hospital, state and national bodies including Chair of GTTAC, Office of the Gene Technology Regulator – responsible for regulating all genetically-modified organisms in Australia - and past Chair of the Advisory Committee on Biologicals, Therapeutic Goods Administration, Australia. Since 2023 he serves on the Standard Initiative Steering Committee, International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), Best Practices for the Translation of PSC-based Cellular Therapies and the World Health Organization, International Nonproprietary Nomenclature and Classification of Medical Products Committee. \\
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Contributions to scientific organisations include co-founding (2000) and past-President (2003-5) of the Australasian Gene & Cell Therapy Society; Vice President (2008 - 2012) and President (2018 - 2020) International Society for Cell & Gene Therapy; Scientific Advisory Committees and Board member for philanthropic foundations; and several Human Research Ethics Committees. He is a founding Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. In 2018, the Board of the Australian Broadcasting Commission honoured him as the sixtieth Boyer Lecturer.