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Almost lost in the hoopla over the stem cells cloned in South Korea was a stem-cell breakthrough closer to home--in more ways than one. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers at Duke University Medical Center reported that infants born with a fatal nerve disorder have been helped--and perhaps even saved--by treatment with stem cells taken from the umbilical cords of healthy babies...
...course, the stem cells used at Duke are not the kind that have caused so much anguish and debate in the U.S. Because these cells are taken not from embryos but from cord or placenta blood, they are both more developed and less versatile than embryonic stem cells. But they are also less controversial because no potential human lives are lost if the cells are destroyed. Yet they seem to have great potential for battling certain illnesses...
...target in this case was Krabbe's disease, a devastating enzyme disorder that prevents the nerve fibers in babies' brains from developing the myelin insulation they need, leading to blindness, deafness, cognitive deterioration and death before age 2. In the Duke study, 25 babies who tested positive for Krabbe's--some of them already displaying symptoms, others not--were dosed with umbilical-cord stem cells...
...well-versed on all the critical issues at Duke, has been a key contributor to all major decisions taken at the executive committee over the past few years and has outstanding relationships with trustees, faculty and administrators,” Nicholas said...
Steel graduated from Duke in 1973 and will be the first Durham native to chair the board in the school’s 81-year history...