Third edition. Edited by George Stamatoyannopoulos, Philip W. Majerus, Roger M. Perlmutter, and Harold Varmus. 1028 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 2001. $275. ISBN 0-7216-7671-5.
As we enter a new millennium, it is clear that some of the greatestrecent medical advances have been in the field of hematology.For example, reports indicate the early successes of gene therapyfor blood diseases such as severe combined immunodeficiencyand hemophilia. An understanding of the molecular basis of theseand other blood diseases is required to maintain the momentumof current progress in the field. Since our knowledge of molecularhematology is expanding rapidly, the task of assembling a usefultextbook on the field would seem difficult to accomplish. Theeditors of The Molecular Basis of Blood . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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