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Disease-Specific Stem Cell Lines Developed
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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 | 3 The number of lines ultimately generated will depend on a host of factors.
"In these complex genetic diseases, we're so ignorant at the moment, we don't even know if patients who get type 1 diabetes all get it the same way. There could be 50 different ways to get type 1 diabetes," Melton said.
If there are 50 ways to get the disease, scientists are going to want to develop more stem cell lines to reflect that variety. If there are only one or two ways, then fewer lines will be needed.
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The National Institutes of Health has more on stem cells.
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Last updated 8/8/2008
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SOURCES: Aug. 6, 2008, teleconference with George Q. Daley, M.D., Ph.D., associate director, Stem Cell Program, Children's Hospital Boston, principal faculty member, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, and immediate past president, International Society for Stem Cell Research; Doug Melton, Ph.D., co-director, Harvard Stem Cell Institute; Aug. 6, 2008, Cell, online
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