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Adult cells once again show more promise than embryonic stem cells

by @ 17:43 on August 1, 2008. Filed under Health.

Today’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel includes a story on how a group of scientists at Columbia and Harvard Universities expanded on some exploratory work at UW and Kyoto University and coaxed adult skin cells of a pair of elderly ALS patients first to embryonic-like cells, then to nerve cells. It still is considered too risky to actually use those cells as they’re re-enginered with viruses, but these cells can at the least be used to study whether they’ll be effective on genetic diseases, as the two women have a form of ALS that is linked to genetics.

As Jimi says, the score is now 7851 to 0.

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