Friday, December 15, 2006

New Hope for Stem-Cell Therapy: Stem cells derived via asexual reproduction could provide an efficient way to generate cells that are tissue-matched t

Source: MIT Technology Review
Date: December 15, 2006

Summary:

Scientists have created embryonic stem-cell lines that are a perfect tissue match to their mouse donors, allowing the cells to be transplanted without immune rejection. If similar methods succeed in humans, the technique could provide a way to generate patient-matched cells for transplant that doesn't require destruction of viable human embryos.