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The FDA Wants to Expedite Approval of Regenerative Organ Therapies
Organ Ordinance Scientists are making great strides toward more realistically using stem cells to grow replacement organs. Now, the US Food and Drug Administration is looking to fast-track a new...
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Artificial Organs: We’re Entering an Era Where Transplants Are Obsolete
No More Heart Transplants Around the world, lists of patients in need of an organ transplant are often longer than the lists of those willing (and able) to donate — in part because some of the most...
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Scientists Discover a Way to Prevent Stem Cell Loss and Improve Tissue...
Stem Cells and Aging The stem cells found within the average adult human are capable of restoring dying cells while also fixing damaged tissue. Nothing is safe from the aging process, though, and as we...
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Stem Cells Restore Mobility and Sensory Perception to Paralyzed Rats
Spine Repair Advancements in spine repair could be propelling us into a future where a severed spinal cord is a treatable condition. A team of researchers from Israel’s Technion Institute of Technology...
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Mature Cells May Play an Important Role in the Onset of Cancer
Reverting Back A new study has found that mature cells, as well as rapidly dividing stem cells, might play a role in the onset of cancer in the human body. A team of researchers from the Washington...
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Lab-Grown Skin With Hair Will Illuminate Treatments For Skin Conditions
Sprouting Hair Follicles For the first time ever, scientists have successfully grown hair follicles from cultures of stem cells. Researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine developed the...
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Scientists Grow First-Ever Working Human Muscle From Stem Cells
Working Muscle In a world first, biomedical engineers from Duke University have created the first functioning human skeletal muscle from pluripotent stem cells, which are capable of producing any form...
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Reproductive Tech Will Let Future Humans Inhabit the Body They Truly Want
When Caleb Wilvich read about the first woman in the U.S. to have a baby via a uterine transplant in early December, they were stoked. Wilvich, who uses the pronoun “they,” has always wanted to give...
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Newly FDA-Approved Platform Will Rapidly “Manufacture” Stem Cells to Repair...
Stem Cells Fast Up until now, any patient receiving stem cells for a medical treatment has had to wait months for their doctors to create enough cells to make multiple doses. But that could soon...
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We Can Now Use Stem Cells to Grow Functioning Kidney Tissue
Medical Marvel In a remarkable medical first, research funded by The Medical Research Council and Kidney Research U.K. helped researchers create human kidney tissue inside of a living organism. The...
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New Stem Cell Study Could Be the Start of Personalized Cancer Vaccines
Preemptive Strike Each year, the world invests billions of dollars into cancer research, but because cancer cells multiply rapidly and without limit, developing effective treatments for the disease is...
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Startup Proposes Using Stem Cells From Placentas for Regenerative Medicine
A new exploration of stem cells from placentas could drastically advance regenerative medicine. Peter Diamandis, X-Prize and Singularity University founder, recently teamed up with Robert Hariri, the...
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Refurbished Organs Could Save Millions on the Transplant List
Organ transplantation is a miracle of modern medicine, but it has a pipeline problem: roughly 20 people die every day while waiting for an organ transplant. Scientists at Harvard Medical School think...
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Scientists Announce New Animal-Human Hybrid Experiment — This Time With Sheep
A team of researchers from Stanford University has produced the latest result in the controversial practice of growing a hybrid species — this time by merging a sheep embryo with human stem cells. The...
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A Stem Cell Patch Could Heal Hearts Damaged By Cardiac Arrest
The Beat Goes On The human body has an extraordinary capacity to heal itself: livers can regenerate when damaged, one kidney can learn to do the job of two, and our skin is constantly working to...
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That “Game Changer” Treatment for MS Is Too Good To Be True — Really
A new treatment for the chronic and debilitating disease multiple sclerosis (MS) has doctors throwing around phrases like “game changer.” Newsweek said it could “revolutionize care for one million...
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The Last Male Northern White Rhino Is Dead, but the Subspecies Could Still...
No one can say Sudan, a northern white rhino, didn’t live a full life. He was the subject of countless works of art. Famous actresses and heads of state traveled across the globe to meet him. He even...
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This Company Wants to Store Your Stem Cells to Treat Future Diseases
Every time someone does a survey on what people are most afraid of, death is right at the top of the list (somehow public speaking often beats it, but that’s beside the point). With so many people...
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Robots Can Grow Humanoid Mini-Organs From Stem Cells Faster And Better Than...
Automated robots now have the tools to grow imitation, simplified human organs out of stem cells. Thankfully, we weren’t transported to a sci-fi dystopia where the machines have risen up and started to...
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Artificial Bone Marrow Tissue Mimics Stem Cells’ Natural Habitat
Here’s a quick biology lesson. Each drop of blood in your body starts in the same place: your bone marrow, the tissue at the center of your larger bones. If you’re sick with a disease like leukemia,...
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