A/Prof Broughton is keen to examine the benefits of stem cell therapy to assess whether it can repair damaged heart tissue in patients that have suffered a heart attack.
He has chosen to test the beneficial effects of induced pluripotent stem cells. These cells are an ethically suitable choice because they:

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A/Prof Broughton is keen to examine the benefits of stem cell therapy to assess whether it can repair damaged heart tissue in patients that have suffered a heart attack.

He has chosen to test the beneficial effects of induced pluripotent stem cells. These cells are an ethically suitable choice because they:

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won’t
trigger the hosts immune response

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can
differentiate into most other cell types

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are generated from the patient’s adult cells

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do
not require invasive extraction procedure

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