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Use of Stem Cells in Drug Screening

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“I think there are tremendous parallels to the early days of recombinant DNA in this field,” says James Thomson, director of Regenerative Biology at the Morgridge Institute for Research in Madison, Wisconsin, and one of the founders of Cellular Dynamics International, also in Madison.

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Ray Banerjee, E. (2014). Use of Stem Cells in Drug Screening. In: Perspectives in Regenerative Medicine. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2053-4_3

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