Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Stem Cell Growth Support

LA JOLLA, Calif., Oct. 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute, the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, and the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine has discovered a new synthetic compound that can support growth and self-renewal of mouse embryonic stem cells, offering a simple alternative to current growth conditions that may vary batch-to-batch and confuse experimental results.