Embryonic stem cells have been used to cure mice with the equivalent of muscular dystrophy, promising a new strategy for treating people with the wasting disease. Scientists in the US have successfully coaxed mouse embryonic stem cells to develop into muscle tissue and then transplanted those cells into animals bred with the genetic mutation that causes Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
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