Years ago, the idea of growing healthy tissues in the laboratory to treat human illnesses still seemed more science fiction than reality. But on the UW-Madison campus researchers have, through years of tedious and complex research, moved the science of stem cells incrementally forward, from theory to the doorstep of clinics where doctors are on the verge of being able to treat everything from blindness to heart disease with healthy cells grown from a patient?s own tissues. The work provides valuable insight into how science gets done.
Mentioned: Professors James Thomson and Randolph Ashton