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Why have there been more therapies using adult stem cells than embryonic stem cells?

April 26, 2017Adult embryonic stem cells stem cells Therapies

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Why have there been more therapies using adult stem cells than embryonic stem cells?

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Research on adult stem cells dates back to the 1950s and has been supported for more than 50 years. Adult stem cells were first demonstrated in bone marrow in 1961,4 with the first successful transplant in 1968.5 By contrast, the first human embryonic stem cell was isolated in 1998.