May 2010

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  • Tim Bryant from 1340 WGAU goes live on the radio interviewing Dr. West and discussing his breakthrough discovery of generating pig induced pluripotent stem cells capable of forming chimeras. Click HERE to listen to the interview

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  • Katie Highsmith from radio station WDUN News Talk 550 AM interviews Dr. West on the possibilities of generating beta islet cells from pig stem cells to help diabetic patients. Click HERE to listen to the interview

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  • CNN Health Scientists use pig embryo to create stem cellsScientists appear to have broken another barrier in stem cell research by creating a better research model to study human illnesses – a pig – actually 34 pigs. It’s an important advance for research because pigs are much more like humans than other lab animals are.…

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