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Nature 437, 185-186 (8 September 2005) | doi:10.1038/437185a; Published online 7 September 2005

Stem-cell research: The rocky road to success

Erika Check1

  1. Erika Check is Nature's Washington biomedical correspondent.
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Tackling the legal and ethical minefield associated with human embryonic stem-cell research is not for the faint-hearted. Erika Check meets one man who is relishing the challenge.

Kevin Eggan has always been a climber. He grew up in the flat cornfields of Normal, Illinois, but every summer his father would take him mountaineering among the tall peaks of the Cascade Range in the Pacific Northwest.

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