Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 09.20.08
Rapidly evolving industry is creating public forum
With their field riding a wave of discovery and change, researchers, financiers and policy-makers
from around the world will arrive today for the 2008
World Stem Cell Summit in Madison, the city where
James Thomson started a scientific revolution almost
a decade ago.
If any need confirmation of the rapidly changing
landscape, it should come with this announcement
planned for the summit: The two Madison companies co-founded by Thomson have merged
and shifted their focus to products involving nonembryonic stem cells.
Rapidly evolving industry is creating public forum
With their field riding a wave of discovery and change, researchers, financiers and policy-makers
from around the world will arrive today for the 2008
World Stem Cell Summit in Madison, the city where
James Thomson started a scientific revolution almost
a decade ago.
If any need confirmation of the rapidly changing
landscape, it should come with this announcement
planned for the summit: The two Madison companies co-founded by Thomson have merged
and shifted their focus to products involving nonembryonic stem cells.