Progress being made in stem-cell therapy, scientist says

Thursday, September 30, 2010 - 09:56 in Health & Medicine

For the past two decades, scientists have been trying to fulfill the promise that stem-cell therapy holds for treating diseases such Parkinson`s, Alzheimer`s and many others. Their ultimate goal is to be able to remove healthy cells from a patient, reprogram them to stem cells, and induce them to differentiate into the type of cells the patient needs to treat a disease.

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