Thursday, January 13, 2011

Skin provides Australia's first adult stem cells for rare genetic disease

January 13, 2011

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have developed Australia’s first adult induced pluripotent stem cell lines using skin biopsies from patients with the rare genetic disease Friedreich Ataxia (FA).

Newspaper article based on a paper published in Stem Cell Reviews and Reports the last December 22 (Generation of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines from Friedreich Ataxia Patients.)