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Stem cells: The crusader

Theresa Deisher once shunned religion for science. Now, with renewed faith, she is fighting human-embryonic-stem-cell research in court.

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Meredith Wadman is a reporter for Nature based in Washington DC.

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Wadman, M. Stem cells: The crusader. Nature 470, 156–159 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/470156a

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