Since President Obama lifted restrictions on stem cells, there has been a lot of talk about how stem cells might be used to find a cure for diabetes (see New Drug ‘Turns Off’ Autoimmune Component of Type 1 and How One Company is Using Stem Cells to Treat Type 1 Diabetes).
I recently came across this video, which is about a year old, which explains how scientists are using stem cells to search for a cure. The stem cells that are talking about are harvested from the blood of the umbilical chord. Check it out below.
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