Source: HealthDay News
Date:: June 6, 2007
Summary:
A pair of stem cell discoveries may one day surmount both the ethical and technical hurdles confronting such research, setting the stage for medical advances, researchers say. In the first study, scientists at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute managed to create stem cells from non-viable mouse embryos, potentially opening a new source of cells for experiments and research. In the second study, investigators at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Mass., succeeding in creating cells identical to embryonic stem cells from adult skin cells in mice, bypassing both the need for eggs and the need to destroy early embryos.
