Focus is on Adult Stem Cells

(The Boston Globe)

October 11, 2005

Let others wrestle with the ethics of destroying tiny human embryos to collect the powerful stem cells inside. Dr. Charles Vacanti of Brigham and Women’s Hospital is quietly making enormous progress in coaxing the same life-saving potential out of stem cells that have been harmlessly taken from adults. Already, researchers in Vacanti’s lab are using adult stem cells to successfully grow new spinal tissue in dogs who’ve been injured in accidents. [more]