Madison, Wis. – When you don’t use or refrigerate your dairy products, they spoil beyond use – and now it looks like stem cells may have the same problem. Except instead of food poisoning, this problem could lead to cancer.
A new study in the magazine Nature Genetics claims that human embryonic stem cells, one of the few cell types that self-renew, show deviations in their genetic structure when left to replicate. Published in an advance online issue Sunday, the article highlights risk to the use of embryonic stem cells in human treatment, and calls the existing supply lines into question.
Quoted: Gabriela Cezar, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Animal Sciences.