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Human ES cells: Can you build a business around them?

Nature Biotechnology volume 17, pages 139–142 (1999)Cite this article

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Phenomenal potential—and significant difficulty—accompanies the development of this technology

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Figure 1: The human embryonic stem cells cultured at James Thomson's laboratory at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have been observed to randomly differentiate in culture into various cell types, including (A) gut, (B) neural cells, (C) bone marrow cells, (D) cartilage, (E) muscle, and (F) kidney cells.
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Brower, V. Human ES cells: Can you build a business around them?. Nat Biotechnol 17, 139–142 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/6140

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