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United States stem-cell research was trumped last week when South Korean scientist Hwang Soo-huk and his research team announced they had created 11 new stem-cell lines from patients with a variety of genetic diseases...
Previously, scientists engaging in therapeutic stem-cell research had little chance of meeting their goals. Success rates ranged between 0 and 10 percent...
Cabot Professor in the Natural Sciences Douglas A. Melton said South Korea has outstripped the U.S. in its stem cell research...
Since isolated stem-cell lines are identical in genetic content to that of their donors, Hwang’s cell lines could serve as the first step in creating individual patient-based therapies—the next hallmark in the field of therapeutic systems...
Hwang told the Associated Press that, in the future, patients would be matched with the most genetically similar stem- cell-based treatment for their diseases—not unlike the current system of organ transplantation...