COLUMBIA, MO. -- In a refrigerator-sized incubator in a small lab on the second floor of the Bond Life Sciences Center at the University of Missouri-Columbia, researchers are growing tiny colonies of embryonic stem cells.

Every day, a small squad of scientists nurtures and feeds those controversial cells, searching for clues about pre-eclampsia, a disease that causes hypertension in pregnant women.

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