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BY LifeSiteNews.com BATON ROUGE, May 10, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The latest advance in stem cell research comes from the Pennington Biomedical Research Center where scientists have converted stem cells taken from human fat into human bone cells after transplanting them into mice. The goal of the research is to use fat cells from liposuction to create regenerative bone therapies. Research team head, Dr. Jeffrey Gimble said, "This is one step further along in the process of finding out what we can ask these cells to do." Gimble worked with a group of scientists both from universities and private research companies. Their results are published in this week's edition of the journal, Tissue Engineering.Pennington researchers are calling liposuction fat a new source of stem cells for research and therapies. "Because human fat is abundant and simple to obtain by liposuction, this finding holds the promise that patients in need of bone grafts could potentially use their own fat as a source of new bone cells," Gimble said. He cautioned that further work needs to be done with animal testing before clinical application in humans, he said, "These are exciting, but preliminary, findings."Pennington Biomedical Research Center, affiliated with Louisiana State University, specializes in research into obesity, nutrition and health and performance enhancement. http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/louisiana-researchers-turn-stem-cells-from-human-fat-into-living-bone/

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