Published in Blood Weekly, June 10th, 2004
According to a study from New York Medical College, "Nuclear transfer techniques have been proposed as a strategy for generating an unlimited supply of rejuvenated and histocompatible stem cells for the treatment of cardiac diseases.
"For this purpose, c-kit -positive fetal liver stem cells obtained from cloned embryos were injected in the border zone of infarcted mice to induce tissue reconstitution. Cloned embryos were derived from somatic cell fusion between nuclei of cultured LacZ-positive fibroblasts and enucleated oocytes of a different mouse strain."
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Source: Blood Weekly (2004-06-10)
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