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Health & Wellness News tagged with Stem Cells

Drug 'Attacks Cancer Stem Cells'
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, cancer, stem cells, research, treatment, prevention, protection, study, science, disease, drugs, medicine )

Dee
- 105 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
A compound that appears to target the master cells which help breast cancers grow and spread has been discovered by US scientists.
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Local Boy Hopes Stem Cells Bring Improvement
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, Scleroderma, rare disease, Stem Cells, treatment, study, protection, prevention, research )

Dee
- 121 days ago - capitalnews9.com
Allen Sparrow, 16, of East Rochester has scleroderma, a rare disease that attacks the skin, joints and internal organs. To stop the disease from spreading Sparrow had a stem cell transplant.
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Pigs Offer New Stem Cell Source
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, Stem Cells, pigs, research, study, science, disease, death, illness )

Dee
- 177 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Chinese scientists have given cells from adult pigs the ability to turn into any tissue in the body, just like embryonic stem cells.
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Stem Cells From Teeth
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, Stem Cells, Teeth, research, study, science, prevention, healthcare, interesting )

Dee
- 179 days ago - capitalnews9.com
"You can make liver. You can make pancreas. You can make bone. Therefore you can make neuro cells. You can make heart cells," said Dr. Robert Carpenter Yes, he said make a liver make a heart. From what? Stem cells from your teeth.
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U.S. Stem Cell Proposals Forbid Funds for Cloning
Health & Wellness  (tags: Stem Cells, medicine, science, study, treatment, research, health, government, disease, drugs )

Dee
- 222 days ago - abcnews.go.com
The guidelines, posted online at http://stemcells.nih.gov/policy/2009draft, are open for public comment and will be made final in July.
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Researchers Generate Functional Neurons From Engineered Stem Cells
Health & Wellness  (tags: Americans, disease, healthcare, humans, illness, medicine, prevention, protection, research, science, society, stem cells, treatment )

Kit
- 274 days ago - sciencedaily.com
In a new study, researchers were able to generate functionally mature motor neurons from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, which are engineered from adult somatic cells and can differentiate into most other cell types.
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Windpipe Transplant Breakthrough - Spain/England
Health & Wellness  (tags: spain, bristol, england, windpipe, transplant, stem cells, health, technology, good news )

Chrissy
- 372 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Scientists in Spain have carried out the world's first tissue-engineered whole organ transplant - a windpipe - made with a patient's own stem cells. The groundbreaking technology also means for the first time tissue transplants can be carried out without
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Man, Now That's Ballsy!
Health & Wellness  (tags: stem cells, medical research, stem cell research, testicles, Center for Regenerative Biology and Medi )

RC
- 412 days ago - washingtonpost.com
In the quest for alternatives to embryos as a viable stem cell source, scientists have found that certain cells in men's testicles are remarkably similar to embryonic stem cells. Men would be the primary beneficiaries of testicular stem cells, however.
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Stem Cells Could Allow Blood Farms, Company Says | Health | Reuters
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, science, stem cells, blood farms )

Michael
- 463 days ago - reuters.com
Embryonic stem cells can be used to grow vats of red blood cells, which could lead to the creation of "farms" that could provide limitless sources of blood, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
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It's Not Immoral to Want to Be Immortal
Health & Wellness  (tags: life extension, regenerative medicine, anti-agers, stem cells, immortality )


- 578 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
Is it right to want to try to live forever? This ethical question is being kicked around quite a bit these days. As the science of regenerative medicine using stem cells inches forward, as more is understood about how lifestyle influences longevity, as
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Stem Cell Hope for Bone Fractures - UK/England
Health & Wellness  (tags: uk, england, scientists, bones, stem cells, breaks, cartiledge )

Chrissy
- 648 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
UK scientists hope to mend shattered bones and damaged cartilage using a patient's own stem cells. They are developing a "bioactive scaffold" to protect the stem cells and encourage them to grow into bone or cartilage when placed in the body.
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Finnish Patient Gets New Jaw From Own Stem Cells
Health & Wellness  (tags: treatment, jaw, stem cells )

Linda
- 664 days ago - news.yahoo.com
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Scientists in Finland said they had replaced a 65-year-old patient's upper jaw with a bone transplant cultivated from stem cells isolated from his own fatty tissue and grown inside his abdomen.
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Embryonic Stem Cells Improve Muscular Dystrophy in Mice
Health & Wellness  (tags: muscular dystrophy, stem cells )

Kimberly
- 675 days ago - scientificblogging.com
Using embryonic stem cells from mice, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have prompted the growth of healthy - and more importantly, functioning - muscle cells in mice afflicted with a human model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
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US Team Makes Embryo Clone of Men
Health & Wellness  (tags: research, science, cloning, stem cells, dna )

Jacquelin
- 680 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
US scientists say they have produced embryos that are clones of two men, in an attempt to produce patient-specific stem cells. Researchers removed DNA from donated human eggs, and replaced it with DNA from the skin cells of two volunteers. They pr
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Stem Cell Research: A Doctor's Personal Mission
Health & Wellness  (tags: medicine, health, research, Stem Cells, Paralysis )

Dave
- 681 days ago - wnyc.org
The debate over stem cell research became very personal for Dr. Jack Kessler when his own daughter became paralyzed in an accident. Find out why he believes that stem cells are the best hope for his daughter's recovery. Listen to the show.
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