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Firms pursue stem cells' promised payoff
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Firms pursue stem cells' promised payoff
By JASON GERTZEN of the Journal Sentinel staff
Monday, August 5, 2002
In the year since President Bush made a critical decision about
stem cell research funding, the technology continues to inspire
dreams of amazing cures and strike-it-rich success. That may come one
day, but the work to get there remains in the very early stages.
"Living cells will become tomorrow's pills," Thomas B. Okarma,
president and chief executive off...
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