R&D

Bringing promise considerably closer to reality

Human pluripotent stem cells present an opportunity to dramatically advance our understanding of human development and disease by allowing scientists access to development at the molecular level. Understanding how cells control this process will eventually give us the ability to replace the cells of irretrievably damaged organs. Moreover, this ability to generate specific disease relevant cell cultures such as motor-neurons, cardiomyocytes and hepatocytes opens up new applications in drug discovery for diseases where it has not been possible to perform proper in vitro, human based drug discovery research. Such examples include Huntington' s and Lou Gehrig' s disease. A robust scalable human stem cell source provides the tools to start new disease biology-driven drug discovery programs.