The Los Angeles Times - From a Devastating Disease Comes a Stem-cell Discovery

Posted: November 22, 2010 / Source: The Los Angeles Times

From a Devastating Disease Comes a Stem-cell Discovery

Researchers at the Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine have transformed vascular endothelial cells -- which line blood vessels -- into stem-like cells with the ability to generate bone, cartilage and fat cells.

Those cells might one day be used to create more efficient tissue engineering for therapies to treat osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, muscular dystrophy or Alzheimer's disease, said Damian Medici of Harvard Medical School, the lead author of the study, which was published Sunday in the journal Nature Medicine.


Source: The Los Angeles Times

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