1.   It will take up to six months for the scientists to learn from bone marrow biopsies and blood tests whether the baboon cells can function in Getty.

2.   Tests showed that what seemed to have been dead heart muscle began contracting, hinting that the thigh muscle cells were now functioning as heart muscle.

3.   That might let living cells function, for example, as digital logic circuits.

4.   To learn what a gene does in yeast cells, molecular biologists simply delete it and watch to see how the cell functions without it.

5.   Using therapeutic cloning, scientists found that cloned cells can function in the body of a bovine transplant recipient without being rejected.

6.   At that time, however, authorities were still unaware of how the cells functioned.

7.   For his part, Dr. Georg Birkmayer M.D., Ph.D., from the University of Vienna, tuned into how a cell functions.

8.   Scientists are now testing to see if the cells were functioning, Verfaillie said.

9.   This enables the skin cells to function properly again.