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Article: WHEN WILL MOTHER OF ALL TISSUES PAY OFF? HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS CREATE ADULT BLOOD COMPONENTS FOR TRANSFUSION, TRANSPLANTATION.
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- BIOWORLD Today
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- September 5, 2001
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It will take years, but human embryonic stem cells are starting to blaze a trail to the pot of therapeutic gold at the end of the rainbow.
That pot is already beginning to fill up with human blood cells, as reported by developmental biologist James Thomson, at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He is the scientist who pioneered the isolation and culture of human embryonic stem cells, three years ago. (See BioWorld Today, Nov. 6, 1998, p. 1.)
Thomson is senior author of a just-published paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), dated Sept. 11, 2001, but released electronically Sept. 3. Its title: "Hematopoietic ...