A major breakthrough in generating safer, therapeutic stem cells from adult cells

Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 12:35 in Health & Medicine

The new technique solves one of the most challenging safety hurdles associated with personalized stem cell-based medicine because for the first time it enables scientists to make stem cells in the laboratory from adult cells without genetically altering them. This discovery has the potential to spark the development of many new types of therapies for humans, for diseases that range from Type 1 diabetes to Parkinson's disease.

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