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Opinion: Stem Cell News -- Hype Over Science

(Oct. 14) -- "First Patient Treated With Stem Cells," blares one headline. "First Patient Treated in Stem Cell Study," shouts another. They're bogus. It was actually the first human trial using embryonic stem cells, or ESCs. Their Cinderella stepsister, adult stem cells, or ASCs, have already seen thousands of human...

Opinion: A Stem Cell Victory for Patients

(Aug. 25) -- The U.S. District Court injunction that stops federal taxpayer funding of human embryonic stem cell research should make patients happy. The judge ruled that federal funding for embryonic stem cell research violates a current law, passed annually since the Clinton administration, prohibiting government...

Background on adult stem cells

Adult stem cells are undifferentiated cells, found throughout the body after development, that multiply by cell division to replenish dying cells and regenerate damaged tissues.

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