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Article: Alternative to Embryonic Stem Cells.("multipotent adult progenitor cells" from bone marrow)
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- National Right to Life News
- Article date:
- February 1, 2002
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Thanks to research coming out of the University of Minnesota's Stem Cell Institute, what had seemed to be a logjam in the debate over both cloning and embryonic stem cell research that requires the destruction of human embryos may have been broken.
Dr. Catherine M. Verfaillie and her colleagues have discovered a type of adult stem cell found in bone marrow that holds out the possibility of growing into any kind of tissue in the body.
The work of Dr. Verfaillie and her colleagues is part of a broader pattern of recent discoveries which challenge the conventional wisdom - - that because stem cells found in human embryos are "unspecialized," they have a ...