Human stem cells promote healing of diabetic ulcers

Monday, April 20, 2009 - 09:56 in Health & Medicine

Treatment of chronic wounds is a continuing clinical problem and socio-economic burden with diabetic foot ulcers alone costing the NHS GBP300 million a year. Scientists in Bristol have found that human foetal stem cells can effectively be used to treat back leg ischaemic ulcers in a model of type 1 diabetes.

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