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Article: Embryonic Stem Cells Accrue Genetic Changes.
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- September 4, 2005
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Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
BALTIMORE, Sep. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- An international team of researchers has discovered that human embryonic stem cell lines accumulate changes in their genetic material over time.
The findings do not limit the utility of the cells for some types of research or for some future clinical applications, the researchers say, but draw attention to the need to closely monitor stem cell lines for genetic changes and to study how these alterations affect the cells' behavior. The researchers' work is described in the Sept. 4 online edition of Nature Genetics.
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