New Hope for Stem-Cell Therapy
Stem cells derived via asexual reproduction could provide an efficient way to generate cells that are tissue-matched to the donor.
Scientists have created embryonic stem-cell lines that are a perfect
tissue match to their mouse donors, allowing the cells to be
transplanted without immune rejection. If similar methods succeed in
humans, the technique could provide a way to generate patient-matched
cells for transplant that doesn't require destruction of viable human
embryos. "This presents a much more efficient way … of generating
tissue-matched embryonic stem cells," says George Daley, a physician and researcher at Children's Hospital Boston and lead scientist on the project.
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