Source: The Associated Press
Posted: June 13, 2006
Summary:
SEATTLE - Scientists at the University of Washington believe they have made significant advances toward being able to repair damaged human livers with stem cells isolated from aborted fetuses. They were also used special laboratory cultures to coax the stem cells to become bile duct, cartilage, fat, bone and blood vessel cells. If the experimental work continues successfully in the years to come, the technique could one day repair livers badly damaged by drug overdoses, hepatitis and alcoholism.
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