University of Minnesota researcher Dr. Catherine Verfaillie has shown in experiments on mice that bone marrow stem cells can form tissues for different organs.
Politicians who want to ban research on embryonic stem cells immediately embraced the news of the breakthrough.
Verfaillie’s research focused on the multipotent adult progenitor cell (MAPC) found in bone marrow and the results are promising:
- Stem cells could be manipulated to mimic the tissue from various organs.
- When stem cells were injected into mice, the cells successful formed colonies in the liver, intestines, and lungs.
- When stem cells were injected into embryos, the second-generation mice had many organs that were formed by the injected stem cells.
I tell you, I’m going to be growing my own healthy replacement kidneys before too much longer.
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