Source: Scientific American
Date: December 14, 2006
Summary:
Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have developed a new procedure used on mice for making transplantable stem cells by extracting stem cells from embryolike clusters of cells grown from the unfertilized eggs of female mice and coaxing them into dividing. They then injected the stem cells back into related mice, where they grew without being rejected by immune cells. The new finding could lead to improved methods for creating human stem cells and potential treatments for spinal cord injuries and degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
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