They hope they can cure Alzheimer's disease and cancer and repair injuries to the spinal cord, even offer an unlimited bank of transplantable organs.

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The liver is Geron's first target in its plan to use cloning technologies, called nuclear transfer, to produce transplantable cells and organs from the patient's own body.

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Americans bury or cremate 20, 000 transplantable organs every year.

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