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Thoughts on The Stem Cell Future

Posted on August 27, 2008

The MIT Technology Review spoke with Doug Melton, a director at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, about the status of stem cell research and its future applications to fight specific diseases.TR: Where will this field go in the future?DM: I think it will change the way degenerative diseases are studied--we'll reduce the whole process of disease to a petri dish. Within a few years, researchers the world over should have access to disease-specific cells that can be turned into cell types defective in a particular disease.We can also start to study environmental factors. We know sun is important f...

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