2007 stem cell breakthrough is like turning lead into gold
Date: 3.1.2008
It was the kind of **breakthrough scientists had dreamed** of for decades and its promise to help cure disease appears to be fast **on the way to being realized**.
Researchers in November announced they were able to turn the clock back on skin cells and transform them into stem cells, the mutable building blocks of organs and tissues.
Then just earlier this month a different team announced it had cured sickle cell anemia in mice using stem cells derived from adult mouse skin.
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