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Growing replacement tissue from stem cells is one of the principal goals of biology.
For now the results are pretty crude; nobody will be growing replacement parts for your frontal cortex next week.
Stem cells, sort of all-purpose cells that briefly appear in new embryos, hold the promise of aiding research into now incurable diseases and tantalizing new medical treatments, like growing replacement tissues for patients.
The potential benefits of human cloning, we are told, include growing replacement kidneys and other organs, nerve cells to patch damaged spinal cords, and neurons to help cure neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's.
But two new techniques for growing replacement arteries may make life easier for surgeons.At the Georgia Institute of Technology, Raymond Vito and his team have been experimenting with "distraction angiogenesis".
The South Korean researcher Dr. Hwang Woo-suk reported in Science in 2004 that he had generated embryonic stem cells from an adult human cell, the necessary first step in proposed schemes for growing replacement tissues from a patient's own cells.
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Scientists hope to harness stem cells to grow replacement tissue for treating a variety of diseases.
Will using stems cells to grow replacement tissues or organs make surgery obsolete?
And, they say, it may be possible to use the cells to grow replacement tissues for patients.
Tolerance research is taking on even greater urgency now with efforts to grow replacement tissues from stem cells, cells from which the body's tissues are created.
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