Bob Sinclair | Sep 17, 2000 | 7 min read
D3 embryonic stem cells cultured in Life Technologies' KNOCKOUT D-MEM Just last year Science hailed stem cell isolation and culture as the "breakthrough of the year."1 Much of the excitement over stem cells derives from their potential to differentiate into any cell type in the body. A fertilized egg, for example, is a single cell that is capable of eventually creating all the different cells that make up the mature organism. As such, a fertilized egg and the daughter cells of the first few divi