Controlling Cells' Environments: A Step Toward Building Much-Needed Tissues and Organs

With stem cells so fickle and indecisive that they make Shakespeare's Hamlet pale by comparison, scientists today described an advance in encouraging stem cells to make decisions about their fate. The technology for doing so, reported here at the 242nd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), is an advance toward using stem cells in "regenerative medicine" -- to grow from scratch organs for transplants and tissues for treating diseases.

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