Liver cells, nerve cells, pancreatic cells we still can't grow them even today.

We have more trials planned for lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, ovarian cancer and breast cancer.

And this inadequacy of cancer medicine really hit home when my father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

I'd shown the 27 year old newlywed who came to the E.R. three nights earlier with lower back pain that turned out to be advanced pancreatic cancer.

The observation that stem cells, as master cells, could give rise to a whole variety of different cell types heart cells, liver cells, pancreatic islet cells captured the attention of the media and the imagination of the public.