University of Houston stem cell team: Wa Xian (left) research associate professor of biology and biochemistry and Frank McKeon, professor of biology and biochemistry and director of the Somatic Stem Cell Center at UH. (IMAGE)

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University of Houston stem cell team: Wa Xian (left) research associate professor of biology and biochemistry and Frank McKeon, professor of biology and biochemistry and director of the Somatic Stem Cell Center at UH.

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For over a decade, Wa Xian (left) research associate professor of biology and biochemistry at University of Houston, has been perfecting technology for cloning stem cells. Frank McKeon (right) professor of biology and biochemistry and director of the Somatic Stem Cell Center at UH, is leading the team to understand the cell-of-origin of esophageal adenocarcinoma and intestinal gastric cancer.

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