By Suzanne Day – Harvard Medical School –
The future of federally funded research at Harvard Medical School — supported by taxpayers and done in service to humanity — remains uncertain. Learn more.
One of the most enduring goals in regenerative medicine is deceptively simple: replace a person’s damaged or dying cells with healthy new ones grown in the laboratory.
Researchers at Harvard Medical School and around the world have made striking progress toward that goal, learning how to guide stem cells to become muscle, nerve, and other specialized cell types. In principle, those lab-grown cells could one day be used to repair
