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Senior Wisconsin stem-cell researcher leaves for Connecticut

Madison, Wis. ââ?¬â? Ren-He Xu, the WiCell Institute’s first employee six years ago and senior scientist there, has been named director of the University of Connecticut’s new human embryonic stem-cell lab.

Xu led the University of Wisconsin-Madison team that last year found out how to make some human stem-cell cultures viable without depending on mouse “feeder” cells to keep them alive.