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Nobel Laureate warns of the complexity of stem cell therapy
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June 9, 2008
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London, June 9 -- A Nobel Laureate associated with the University of Utah has found that a single organ may comprise of more than one type of adult stem cell.
Geneticist Mario Capecchi, a winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, believes that his finding suggests that it might not be easy to utilise adult stem cell transplants to replace damaged tissues as a treatment for disease.
Working with his colleague Eugenio Sangiorgi in his own laboratory, Capecchi used a gene named Bmi1 to mark the presence of adult stem cells in the intestines of mice.
The geneticist duo was surprised to find the specific cells ...