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adipose tissue


  • n  a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs
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  • New source for regenerative stem cells? Your fat, study suggests
    Researchers based at the University of California, Los Angeles announced today that they’ve found an abundant, cheap, easy-to-obtain source of stem cells that could prove to be ideal for regenerating all the basic tissue types of the human body.That source is adipose tissue, or fat.Stem cells were discovered in human fat in 2001, and called adipose stem cells (ASTs). The cells described by the ...
    June 5, 2013 - MSNBC

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