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Growing organs from stem cells. Surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, Professor of Regenerative Surgery at Karolinska Institutet is famous for being the first man to grow (and transplant) a fully working human organ using adult stem cells. That was back in 2008 and since then five similar operations have been carried out.
What is the most common source of embryos for stem cell harvest? What is a disadvantage of adult stem cells over embryonic stem cells? Somatic cell nuclear transplant uses material from a(n) _______ cell. What cells produced by therapeutic cloning are used to culture new tissue? What is an argument in favor of using embryonic stem cells over adult stem cells? Stem cells that differentiate into only one type of cell are described as __________.