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When a 2001 federal funding freeze crippled research into the use of embryonic stem cells to treat medical conditions, molecular biologists began searching for alternatives. Now, they may have found one: By reprogramming adult skin cells, researchers have produced stem cells, but in recent studies, the cells produced tumors in mice.
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