Scientists overcome major obstacle for stem cell therapies and research
Thursday, September 8, 2011 - 15:30
in Health & Medicine
Stem cells show great potential to enable treatments for conditions such as spinal injuries or Lou Gehrig's disease, and also as research tools. Scientists in the United States and Japan have developed a clever solution to the research obstacle of cell mixture purification that should prove more reliable than other methods, safer, and perhaps 100 times cheaper.