Friday, December 17, 2004

Stem Cells From Fat Used to Repair Skull

The lame may not yet be walking and the blind may still need their sight, but this seems like a step in the right direction:



"Surgeons have used stem cells from fat to help repair skull damage in a 7-year-old girl in Germany, in what's apparently the first time such fat-derived cells have been exploited to grow bone in a human. "



If they had used fetal stem cells, this young girl would probably be winning chess matches against Kasparov (spelling may not be correct, but the thought is?.

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