Great potential for new success in Swedish stem cell researchMarch 21, 2002Swedish stem cell researchers are in a good position to become even more successful than in recent years. This can be achieved by improving the collaboration between research groups, and by increasing the number of researchers in the field through, for example, the introduction of "come-home" grants for those who have been abroad. Equally important would be economic commitment to basic research on stem cells, and the creation of regulations for emergent commercial aspects so that researchers can maintain free access to material and research results. All this is established in the first survey of Swedish stem cell research. While Swedish stem cell research is partly in the international forefront already, it yields a smaller number of publications than what would correspond to Swedish researchers' proportion of biomedical research as a whole. The reason appears to be that it concerns a relatively new field. On the other hand, Swedish researchers have produced works of good quality which have attracted great attention internationally. Three centres and a new network Difficulties of defining the field and resources The investigation proposes: | |||||||||||||||||||||
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