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Fetal Stem Cells May Bring Healing to Mothers Long After Pregnancy
Cells from unborn babies survive for years in mothers' blood, which may allow doctors to retrieve the cells without killing a child, according to a study in the July 7 Journal of the American Medical Association.
Researchers at Tufts-New England Medical Center studied diseased liver and thyroid tissues that had been removed from women who had sons. They discovered fetal cells with male chromosomes that had begun to resemble cells normally found in the organs.
"It suggests they have the potential to change in the mother's organs," Dr. Diana Bianchi, chief of medical genetics at ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Pro-Life News in Brief.