Yonatan Zunger (zunger) wrote,
Yonatan Zunger
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Science update

A new report on substantial progress in treating spinal injuries with embryonic stem cells, from UC Irvine. They managed to cause the cells to grow into new myelin sheaths for neurons.

(Side note, which the article doesn't mention: This couldn't have been done with adult stem cells; working on neurons more or less requires totipotent cells, and thus embryonic research. Let the politics begin...)
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