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.