Days of molecular medicine: Stem cell biology and human disease: Alan Trounson
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Alan Trounson, who is considered the father of cryopreservation due to his in vitro fertilization method as a practical and repeatable method for the treatment of human infertility, is a professor and director of Monash Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories in Melbourne. His aim is to see stem cells used for therapeutic purposes, for discovery of cell therapies, for new drugs and as vehicles for gene therapy.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2005
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Small is beautiful
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Ursula Rothlisberger, a biochemist is a small part at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). The institute in the French-speaking part Switzerland is one of the most international universities in the world that staffs of 3,200 scientists and technicians and encompasses more than 80 nationalities.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2005
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Roger Pedersen: In the midst of a new technological revolution
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Roger Pedersen, professor and director at the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute in UK, discusses about stem cell research and genome project. He feels that in order to get the best benefit of the present era of regenerative medicine one has to understand oneself in ways never attempted before.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2005
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