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Trials of the Heart
Hematopoietic stem-cell therapies increasingly enter the clinic, but the basis for their action remains unclear
Email: Christopher Thomas Scott - cscott@the-scientist.com The Scientist 2005, 19(13):20
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Adult human stem cells may offer the opportunity to use one of biomedical science's most promising technologies without the ethical dilemmas of embryonic cells. But whether the cells' plasticity-or ability to ignore germ-line heritage and differentiate into therapeutically useful tissues-warrants clinical application at this stage remains controversial.
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