The News & Observer of Raleigh reports another tentative success from adult stem cells:
Medical researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill announced Monday that they have made strides in the technology to rebuild damaged bone tissue using stem cells.
The research team, led by Dr. Anna Spagnoli, an associate professor of pediatrics at UNC-CH, derived the stem cells from bone marrow samples to locate and repair broken bones in mice. Now the work is poised to move to humans.
“What we have done here is shown a reason to move to a real clinical trial,” Spagnoli said.
Researchers at Wake Forest University have previously conducted research on stem cells derived from amniotic fluid.
