Nerve cells grown from new-style stem cells
Thursday, July 31, 2008 - 13:35
in Health & Medicine
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ordinary skin cells taken from patients with a fatal and incurable nerve disease have been transformed into nerve cells in a first step toward treating them, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.
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