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Emerging Science Note/Getting to the Root of the Problem
Scientists have found a new source of adult stem cells in human hair that may one day help cure Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and other neurological diseases.
Scientists have isolated adult stem cells in human hair follicles. Tobin Hack reports that these cells are surprisingly similar, but far less controversial, than their embryonic stem cell brothers.