Stem cells extracted from amniotic fluid

Source: USA Today
Posted: January 7, 2007 3:20 PM ET

Summary:

Researchers at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C., have successfully obtained human stem cells from the amniotic fluid in the womb, potentially providing a source of stem cells that is readily available and avoids ethical controversy. The researchers made the amniotic cells become fat, bone, muscle, blood, nerve and liver cells.