Stories of hope and scientific progress in the CIRM Annual Report
Posted: June 20, 2011
This week researchers at the University of Minnesota published a paper showing that stem cells from the bone marrow can help kids with a blistering skin condition called epidermolysis bullosa. The disease is horrible. Lacking a protein to anchor skin in place, the children's blister at the slightest touch -- on their skin, in their throat, inside their eyelids, and anywhere else skin forms.