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Published Online July 13, 2006
Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1129987

Letters

Submitted on May 11, 2006
Accepted on July 13, 2006

Adult Stem Cell Treatments for Diseases?

Shane Smith 1, William Neaves 2*, Steven Teitelbaum 3

1 Children's Neurobiological Solutions Foundation, 1726 Franceschi Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, USA.
2 Stowers Institute for Medical Research, 1000 East 50th Street, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA.
3 Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University, 660 South Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
William Neaves , E-mail: William_Neaves{at}stowers-institute.org

A letter takes issue with the claim by some opponents of embryonic stem cell research that adult stem cells provide treatments for 65 or more human diseases, arguing that most such treatments have not undergone actual clinical trials, that FDA-approved adult stem cell treatments are available for only nine of the cited conditions, and that those who cite "the falsehood that adult stem cell treatments are already in general use" for 65 conditions "mislead laypeople and cruelly deceive patients."




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