News on the kidney-in-a-cooler-front: A research team at the Imperial College School of Medicine in London has discovered that adult stem cells found in bone marrow may be capable of developing into kidney cells that may subsequently be used to treat kidney failure. It’s been demonstrated in the past that stem cells can develop into liver cells, but this is the first study indicating that the development of kidney cells is also possible.
Stem cells are currently the source of much controversy but are merely cells that have the ability to self-replicate over time. Given the right conditions or signals, stem cells can differentiate to theoretically any sort of cell type within a given organism.
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