Source: NewScientist.com news service
Posted: 18:00 07 January 2007
Summary:
New research from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine has demonstrated for the first time that amniotic fluid-derived stem (AFS) cells can be extracted and turned into many tissue types. The discovery of the versatile stem cells could pave the way for human stem cell treatments that avoid the ethical questions surrounding embryonic stem cells and the risk of tissue rejection by the immune system.
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