Source: CNET News.com
Posted: August 22, 2005:6:36:51 PDT
Summary:
Microgravity technology developed by NASA can multiply stem cells from a newborn's blood in large enough quantities to be used to regenerate human tissue, London scientists have found. Researchers at U.K.-based Kingston University have discovered in the umbilical cord blood of infants primitive stem cells that are similar to those from human embryos and that can develop into any tissue in the body.
