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Renewing embryonic stem cells

Embryonic stem cells have great potential in medicine, but the current methods used to grow them prevent their therapeutic use. A dual-action compound has been discovered that may help solve this problem.

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Figure 1: Chemically induced stem-cell self-renewal.

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Letso, R., Stockwell, B. Renewing embryonic stem cells. Nature 444, 692–693 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/444692b

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