USC hosts speaker on stem cell studies in medicine

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — An expert in the area of stem cell research in medicine is speaking at the University of South Carolina.

University spokesman Steven Powell says Elaine Fuchs, who is a researcher with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Maryland, is speaking Tuesday.

Her address is free and open to the public at 7:30 p.m. at the law wchool auditorium on the USC campus in Columbia.

Fuchs is speaking on stem cells of the skin and the promise they hold for clinical and biological work.

Her address is part of the College of Arts and Sciences series on the impact of biotechnology and medicine in the 21st century.