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The War on Parkinson’s: Stem Cells Successfully Injected into Patient’s Brain
More Humane Doctors from the Royal Melbourne Hospital successfully injected stem cells onto the brain of a 64-year old Parkinson’s Disease patient. This operation, the first of its kind, marks a...
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Paralyzed Man Regains Motor Function As A Result of Stem Cell Therapy
Renewed Hope One company, Asterias Biotherapeutics, has revived one of the first research studies born from the origins of stem cell therapy in the late 1990s. And according to reports, it is showing a...
View ArticleScientists Have Successfully Bred Mice Using Skin Cells
A New Birth Reproduction without the need of one male and one female parent — it’s the stuff of sci-fi, but scientists from Kyushu University Japan may be nearing this far-fetched phenomenon as they...
View ArticleResearchers Have Found a “Reset Button” for Aging Cells
Fighting Disease Before It Strikes From revitalizing heartbeats and increasing longevity, to removing disorders via gene editing, blood-borne challenges are approached with new solutions as quickly as...
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Doctors Claim They’ve Cured a Boy of a Painful Blood Disorder Using Gene Therapy
Potential Treatment Gene therapy has been available for quite some time now. Advances in modern medical science, particularly in stem cell research, have made it possible to use DNA to compensate for...
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A New Breakthrough in Lab-Grown Cells Could Restore Hearing
Auditory Illnesses One of the most common causes of hearing loss is damage to the thousands of hair cells found within the inner ear. These hair cells detect and translate sound waves into nerve...
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Scientists Have Grown the First Synthetic Self-Developing Embryo
The Tale of Two Stem Cells Embryo-based research has advanced rapidly over the past few years. While scientists have developed progressive opinions regarding the ethics of gene editing and chimera...
View ArticleA Groundbreaking Stem Cell Treatment Just Prevented a Woman From Going Blind
Creating a Cure Macular degeneration affects more than 10 million people in the U.S., and is the most common cause of vision loss. It is caused by the deterioration of the middle of the retina, called...
View ArticleA Japanese Man Has Become the First Recipient of Donated, Reprogrammed Stem...
A New Treatment for Macular Degeneration Macular degeneration is the leading cause of progressive vision loss with almost 10 million Americans affected by the disease. Currently, there are no known...
View ArticleYour Brain Cells Could Be Reprogrammed to Fight Parkinson’s Disease
Support Cells Turned Super Cells Parkinson’s disease is one of the world’s most common neurodegenerative ailments. It causes patients with Parkinson’s to lose dopamine neurons, which are important for...
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Body Part Regeneration Is in Our Future
A Human Regrowth Industry? The ability to regenerate body parts has always been a fascinating prospect, inspiring characters like Wolverine who can instantly heal themselves and regrow body parts...
View ArticleA New Technique Transforms Human Skin Into Brain Cells
From Skin to Brain The brain is one of the most vital organs in the human body, so damage to the brain from injury or aging can have major impacts on people’s quality of life. Neurological disorders...
View ArticleResearchers Invent Stem Cell Capable of Becoming an Entire Embryo
A New Type of Stem Cell While much has been gleaned about the power of stem cells over the last few decades, researchers from the Salk Institute and Peking University in China recently found out...
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Breakthrough Initiative Will Grow Organs and Regenerate Human Tissue
Growing Good Health Major strides are being made in the field of regenerative medicine. Developments have been made growing tissue and even organs in labs to help restore normal functionality in...
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Researchers Are Using Stem Cell Tech to End Neurological Disorders
A Curious Case The human body is a melding of different systems designed to function well together. In some cases, however, a mechanism that protects the body can also cause it harm, like with the...
View ArticleFor the First Time Ever, Researchers Produced Lab-Grown Blood Stem Cells
Stem Cells to Bone Marrow In two separate studies, researchers have successfully created blood stem cells in a laboratory setting for the first time. These types of cells are found in bone marrow and...
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Scientists Hope to Use Stem Cells to Reverse Death in Controversial Study
Back From The Dead Researchers seem to be setting their sights on increasingly lofty goals when it comes to the human body – from the world’s first human head transplant, to fighting aging, and now...
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How Close Are We to Successfully Cloning the First Human?
When Will We Clone a Human? Human cloning may endure as one of the go-to science fiction tropes, but in reality we may be much closer to achieving it than our fictional heroes might imply. At least in...
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New Discovery Brings Us One Step Closer to Growing Replacement Organs
The Meox1 Miracle Scientists at Monash University in Australia have found another piece of the lab-grown organ puzzle: the team has discovered that a protein called Meox1 is pivotal in promoting the...
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Proposed Study Hopes to Bring Life to Patients with Critical Brain Injuries
Nothing is as certain as death. Yet humans have come up with ways to push it further and further. The heart stops beating? Do CPR. The lungs fail? Use a mechanical ventilator. These techniques have...
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