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...current reliance on viruses renders the stem cell lines unsafe for transplantation because the process genetically modifies the reprogrammed cells. But Eggan predicted that researchers would soon fix this shortcoming with a process that instead uses chemicals to reprogram cells...
...cell donors—82 and 89—gave the findings added significance, as some scientists had predicted using cells from older patients would complicate the creation of stem lines, according to Eggan...
...This opens the door to being able to make patient-specific, stem cell lines from diseases which affect people very late in life like Parkinson's disease or Alzheimer's disease," Eggan said...
...need to compare these cells we've generated to the gold-standard cells we've generated from human embryonic stem cells," Eggan said. "Until we can do that, we won't have complete confidence...
...Eggan said that Massachusetts law prohibiting compensation of human egg donors had stymied his lab's efforts to study the disease...