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implies that Embryonic Stem Cells were used >>

I wouldn't say that... thanks for the fumento link, he's posted widely on the FR

When surgery and operations failed to show results, doctors suggested bone marrow stem cell therapy, an opportunity Ramesh grabbed.

More than 300 patients suffering from corneal surface disorders have been treated using limbal stem cells at the LV Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad with a 70 per cent success rate.

Meanwhile, a four-month-old baby with improper heart muscle contraction and no hope for survival is steadily recovering after doctors at the Frontier Lifeline Hospital, Chennai, drew stem cells from the baby’s blood and injected them into the heart last year.

India can become a hub for stem cell research and application partly because the Church in Western countries perceives using embryos to extract stem cells as murder. This, in conjunction with lax regulations on such research, has given India an obvious edge. Dr. Satish Totey, chief scientific officer, Stem Peutics Research and secretary of the Stem Cell Research Forum, talks of a growing consensus among policy analysts and scientists on India playing a key role in the scientific, clinical and commercial development of stem cell research in the near future.

This cut from the text doesn't clearly refer to ESC's?