The step marks a possibly pivotal advance toward the long-sought goal of creating stem cells that could be used to treat many major diseases because they would not be rejected by patients' immune systems.
The Washington Post - Scientists report possibly crucial advance in human embryonic stem cell research
Wednesday, 05 October 2011 00:00
Scientists reported Wednesday that for the first time they had used cloning techniques to generate embryonic stem cells containing the genes of specific patients.
