The new professor is currently working on how stem cell technology can help in treating burns.
The fruits of stem cell technology, on the other hand, can be found at Bloomingdale's.
"The promise of new treatments based on stem cell technology is moving nearer to becoming a realistic possibility, " said Stojkovic.
The citation for his knighthood credits Prof Wilmut with "revolutionising" biology through the cloning technique which underpins the science of stem cell technology.
The best-known of the new knights is Professor Wilmut, who is said to have revolutionised biology by successfully pioneering the cloning technique that underpins the science of stem cell technology.
Ricardo Dolmetsch, a researcher at Stanford University and the Allen Institute for Brain Sciences, is using stem cell technology to study how the neurons of people with autism differ from those of other people.
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In 2006, prosecutors said Hwang masterminded the process of creating false studies on stem-cell technology.
If it succeeds in commercialising his stem-cell technology, its shareholders will, indeed, have plenty to smile about.
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Besides playing to the gallery of public opinion, it is hoping that, in the long term, stem-cell technology could become an important engine of growth.
BioTransplant (nasdaq: BTRN - news - people ), another company that hoped to use cloning in embryonic stem-cell technology, has fared far worse.
Leery of previous moral and ethical debates about whether it is right to manipulate life forms which arose with the advent of cloning, stem-cell technology and genetic engineering some researchers chose neutral terms to describe the experimental cell.
But Caplan says access to many of the stem cells will be determined by companies that have invested heavily in stem cell research and technology, and have their own commercial interests in mind.
The usefulness of this technology will depend on the stem cell research of companies like Geron gern (nasdaq: gern - news - people), which would allow the creation of new organ tissues from the patients' own existing cells.
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Broad has also given millions to help fund embryonic stem cell research, as have fellow billionaires Ray Dolby, founder of audio technology maker Dolby Labs, and New York mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Broad has also given millions to help fund embryonic stem cell research, as have fellow billionaires Ray Dolby, founder of audio technology maker Dolby Labs (nyse: DLB - news - people ), and New York mayor Michael Bloomberg.
In an amazing advance, scientists at Advanced Cell Technology reported this week in The Lancet that they used embryonic stem cells to restore partial vision to 2 patients who were legally blind.
And so we increased our investments in NIH and NSF, and made sure that stem cell research could proceed. (Applause.) And insisted that we place the highest priority on technology and innovation, in government, through our research -- because nobody understands better than this region of the country and how important that is to our economic future.
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