Deepak Srivastava of the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, in San Francisco, meanwhile, thinks he can go one better, by not using stem cells at all.

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Ding, Senior Investigator at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and a professor at University of California San Francisco, is one of the scientists aiming to solve this problem by generating stem cells using chemical methods.

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