In individual cases that we have found, turns out that those children most of the time will have had a marker of some type that we stem back and say, ah, that's the autism cause and etiology versus vaccines.

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McKay and his colleagues used embryonic stem cells to create a particular type of neuron that can be used to treat a model of Parkinson's disease in mice.

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In one instance a doctor successfully cured a mouse of type 1 diabetes by transplanting umbilical cord stem cells into the animal's pancreas.

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