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Stem cell research is very promising.
I have suggested that the new areas of systems and synthetic biology may provide a truly deep level of understanding for many aspects of how stem cells make fate choices.
This paper finds stem cell tourism to be a subset of what may be a much larger industry for stem cell interventions.
Human embryonic stem cell lines from the Chinese population should facilitate stem cell research and may be valuable in studies of population genetics and ecology.
This report serves to document the efforts of one scientific community to deal with a legislative initiative to criminalize stem cell research for both the scientist and the patient.
Stem Cell Bank and will be a useful resource for the international stem cell community.
As such, a basic understanding of stem cell biology will benefit the surgeon scientist and clinical surgeon.
The clear similarities between stem cell and cancer stem cell genetic programs are nonetheless the basis of a recent proposal that some cancer stem cells could derive from human adult stem cells.
This type of stem cell may provide an important tool for stem cell therapy, but it also results in some ethical concerns.
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David G. Drubin, Anthony A. Hyman 
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Here we argue that combined advances in genome editing, stem cell production, and organoid derivation from stem cells represent a revolution in cell biology.

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