[neverdem]

So while adult stem cells are being used for effective treatments in the present the treatment in the article is:

"“Still, he cautions that it will take years to develop a therapy”

There is no adult stem cell therapy for Fanconi anemia. It's an inherited genetic disorder. Tests with gene therapy have been fraught with problems.

[neverdem]

Sight for sore eyes (Stem cells - corneal disease plus - inexpensive, quick)

Cultivation changed monsoon in Asia

Engineered DNA counts it out - Man-made gene network can tally a series of three

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[count-your-change]

No adult atem cell treatment? Are you sure?

“FANCONI’S ANEMIA
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12, 712-718, July 2006
Tan PL et al., Successful engraftment without radiation after fludarabine-based regimen in Fanconi anemia
patients undergoing genotypically identical donor hematopoietic cell transplantation, Pediatr Blood
Cancer, 46, 630-636, May 1, 2006
Kohli-Kumar M et al., “Haemopoietic stem/progenitor cell transplant in Fanconi anaemia using HLAmatched
sibling umbilical cord blood cells”, British Journal of Haematology 85, 419-422, October
1993”