Resident John Gardner, of Irthlingborough Grange, said he was pleased the development was one step closer.

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The work by Yamanaka, Melton and Srivastava upended conventional thinking that cell development proceeds in one direction, moving step-by-step from primordial stem cells to fully differentiated adult cells.

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The first step is to contact your regional rural development adviser on one of the following numbers.

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One of the major benefits of this development is that it only adds a single step to the manufacturing process, meaning that this technique can be adapted to current cells rather rapidly.

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"This win was just another incremental step in our development towards achieving success in the Heineken Cup, " said lock Alun Wyn Jones, one of the Ospreys' try-scorers at Twickenham.

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While there's more experiments and development to go before we ever see a tractor beam at the hospital, the achievement brings us one step closer to the sci-fi future we were always told we'd get, right alongside the personal communicators and jetpacks.

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