Blacks, other minorities might not reap full benefit from breakthroughs, experts say By Steven Reinberg
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 16 (HealthDay News) — Human embryonic stem cell lines currently used for research come mostly from white donors, a new report finds.
That could mean that nonwhites will benefit less from any medical breakthroughs that emerge from that research down the line, experts say.
Blacks could be especially affected. In fact, none of the most widely used stem cell lines studied showed any traces of recent African ancestry, the team reported online in a Dec. 16 letter in the New England Journal of Medicine. Read More…
