Intercytex's second approach seems to involve culturing the dermal papilla cells with proteins that take part in signalling during the process that creates hair.

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He proposes the industrial-scale culturing (biomanufacturing, as he describes it, rather than farming) of single-celled algae that have been genetically engineered to turn out fuel-ready hydrocarbons.

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Led by George Daley of Children's Hospital in Boston, the researchers began their process by culturing mouse embryonic stem cells to form globular clusters called embryoid bodies.

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We considered the possibility that one of his lines had become infected, so we put in new lines and sent the old ones to the lab for culturing.

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But even as I grew confident around a stove, progressing from roasting a chicken to boning a duck, from baking muffins to culturing sourdough, I avoided making funnel cake.

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The reason to think Merck may succeed, argues Tim Anderson of Sanford Bernstein, a research firm, is that it has found a way to make biosimilars by culturing them inside yeast cells.

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