Stem cell success
Posted: August 5, 2008 Filed under: Biology, Pure research Leave a comment »The Age reported this week on research that has achieved one of the long-hoped for results of stem-cell research.
Undifferentiated stem cells, removed from a patient with ALS, or motor-neurone disease, were induced to mature into nerve cells genetically identical to the patient’s own cells.
While therapeutic use of the resultant cells is a long way off, this is an important way-point on the journey.
