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Thomson says hopes of immediate stem cell therapies unrealistic

New stem cell breakthroughs hold great potential for human medicine, UW-Madison researcher Jamie Thomson said today, but any therapies coming from them may be a decade or two off.

â??This will revolutionize human medicine, but mostly it is about the basic science and biology and having access to things we did not have access to before,â? he said, noting that transplantation of stem cells to the central nervous system will be particularly difficult.