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From diabetes to Alzheimer's, there's a lot that we hope to be able to treat using stem cell therapies. But the stem cells we use tend to be hard to come by. But it turns out there's a new source of stem cells that has researchers excited, because it's extremely common. In fact, it's something that many people throw away without thinking much of it, every month - Period blood.

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