Researchers at the University of North Carolina have used adult stem cells to improve the healing of broken bones in mice.
Unhealed bone fractures often require surgery, bone grafts or prosthetic materials. But in the mice, adult stem cells made the bones three times stronger than those that healed naturally.
Dawn Vargo, bioethics analyst for Focus on the Family Action, said: "Although this particular treatment is still being tested in mice, it might soon be added to the long list of adult stem-cell treatments successfully used in people suffering from debilitating conditions."
