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Getting stem cells to behave

June 24, 2002 7:00 AM UTC

Two new reports on stem cells published last week in Nature provide more evidence that both adult and embryonic stem cells could have utility. But the findings don't answer whether it should be public policy to allow work on the former but not the latter.

In one article, researchers from the University of Minnesota Medical School provided evidence that adult stem cells could be capable of indefinite growth as well as the ability to differentiate into a wide variety of functional cell lineages in vivo. ...