Stem cells

[kunkmiester]

This is kind of a headsmack:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100802/ap_ ... stem_cells

I hadn't known just how far back research into adult stem cells went, though I suspect the layman writing the article is mixing a bit up. However, not only have adult stem cells been used more often as actual treatments and not just petri dish experiments, but they're easier to make work--embryonic cells are still foreign, and major treatments will probably need immunosuppressant drugs.

[CaptainBeowulf]

Yeah, the only kind of stem cell therapy I would want would be with stem cells derived from my own cells, so no immunoresponse problems.