Atlanta's Shepherd Center becomes site for first human trial of embryonic stem cell treatment in U.S.
Scientists perform stem cell research
ATLANTA -- Atlanta has just become the point where embryonic stem cell research meets a human being in the United States, reported the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
The first patient has been treated with human embryonic stem cells in the first study authorized by the Food and Drug Administration to test the controversial therapy.
A patient who was partially paralyzed by a spinal cord injury had millions of embryonic stem cells injected into the site of the damage. The patient was treated at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta.
Read more about the study at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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