Biotech companies with business models as diverse as the products they are developing are laboring to move cell-based therapies into the clinic. Without a commercial success, however, investors will remain on the sidelines.
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Ken Howard is a contributing writer based in Westborough, MA. Stephan Herrera is news editor at Nature Biotechnology, and Christopher Thomas Scott is a writer and author based in San Francisco, CA. His latest book, The Stem Cell, will be in bookstores September 1, 2005.
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Wilan, K., Scott, C. & Herrera, S. Chasing a cellular fountain of youth. Nat Biotechnol 23, 807–815 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0705-807
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