Jeanne Loring, director of the Center for Regenerative Medicine (Credit: Jamie Scott Lytle)
A stem cell pioneer sent an experiment into space. Patients are the next frontier
Last July, Jeanne Loring stood on a dirt road surrounded by Florida swampland and watched as a nearby SpaceX rocket blasted into the sky. The payload included a very personal belonging: cell clusters mimicking parts of her brain.
For more than two decades, Loring has been at the forefront of a stem cell field that always seems on the brink of becoming the next thing in medicine, but has been slow to lift off.
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