Tom O’Connor UNMC Public Affairs and Jim Newman Oregon Health & Science University

Dr. Sanger plays key role in stem cell research breakthrough

UNMC geneticist Warren Sanger, Ph.D., played a key role in providing the genetic testing for a major scientific breakthrough earlier this month in which scientists for the first time successfully derived embryonic stem cells by reprogramming the genetic material from skin cells while studying rhesus macaque monkeys.

Nov 26, 2007