A news stem cell therapy for
newborn babies needing liver transplants for genetic maladies
has been successfully tested for the first time at Turin's Città
dell Salute Hospital.
The treatment was used on three newborn babies in the
hospital.
It consists in injecting healthy liver stem cells after
birth.
The treatment effectively delayed the time needed for
transplants.
This paves the way, doctors said, for correcting several
genetic and metabolic diseases with a "mini-invasive" approach.
The advance has been published in the journal Stem Cell
Reviews and Reports.
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