Adult Stem Cells

Powerful technique for multiplying adult stem cells may aid therapies

Published in Blood Weekly, February 16th, 2006

Adult stem cells may be free of the ethical concerns that hamper embryonic stem cell research, but they still pose formidable scientific challenges, including the doggedness with which adult stem cells differentiate into mature tissue the moment they're isolated from the body. A new technique may overcome some of the obstacles traditionally associated with adult stem cell research.

It is nearly impossible for researchers to multiply adult stem cells in the laboratory. And because adult stem cells are so rare, that makes it difficult to use them for treating disease.

Now researchers in the lab of Whitehead Institute Member and Massachusetts Institute...

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