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The NY Times reports
Scientists have moved a step closer to the goal of creating stem cells perfectly matched to a patient's DNA in order to treat diseases, they announced on Thursday, creating patient-specific cell lines out of the skin cells of two adult men.
The LA Times reports
The work, reported Thursday in the journal Cell Stem Cell, comes 11 months after researchers in Oregon said they had produced the world's first human embryo clones and used them to make stem cells. Their study, published in Cell, aroused skepticism after critics pointed out multiple errors and duplicated images.
Stem cells advances have been dogged by allegations of fraud and irreproducibility.
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Neil Armstrong tripped.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Saturday April 19 2014, @06:48PM
It's not so much that I don't care, as that I don't have the knowledge to judge how plausible this is. Or how effective. Or how long it will take to become standard practice. Or... well, you get the idea.
If I hear about a new transistor being developed in a lab I know it will take around a decade to show up on my desktop, if it proves out. I don't have that kind of knowledge about stem cell developments. (Given government regulations, and the attendant change with each new manager, I'd guess that nobody does.)
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