Source: Herald Sun
Date: April 6, 2006
Michelle Pountney, health reporter
A MELBOURNE man is the first person in the world whose own stem cells are being used to try to mend a broken leg. Bone marrow cells were harvested from a patient's pelvis. Adult stem cells were from other bone cells, and mesenchymal precursor cells-cells that cann form tissues such as bone cartilage and heart-were isolated and grown.
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