Source: Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH)
Date: October 26, 2009
Summary:
In a novel approach to the study of embryonic stem cells, researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have discovered a potential means of controlling differentiation into desired cell types, by demonstrating that sugars play a major role in modulating stem cell differentiation into tissues. These findings appear online on October 26, 2009 in Circulation.