Fetal stem cell grafts successfully help brittle-bone babies

In an international collaboration, researchers from Sweden, Singapore and Taiwan successfully treated two babies with a congenital bone disease that causes stunted growth and repeated fracturing by injecting them in utero with bone-forming stem cells. Results of their longitudinal study have been published in the journal Stem Cells Translational Medicine.Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) not only stunts the growth of those who suffer from this disease, but the repeated fractures it causes are painful.

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