Angsuman Chakraborty01 Apr 2005 12:17 pm

The biocavity laser can show scientists the inner workings of a single cell. Paul Gourley and his colleagues at Sandia proved the laser could do that by studying cancer cells.
Researchers are now using the laser to study stem cells, since cancer cells and stem cells are similar in several ways.
Source: Wired News [www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,67089,00.html]
We will hopefully know more about the amazing capabilities of stem cells and how they can transform into any type of cell in the body.
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