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Ovary Stem Cells Can Produce New Human Eggs, Scientists Say

Alice Park wrote 3 months ago: Although it has long been assumed that women are born with all the eggs they will ever have in a lif … more →

Tags: Medicine

Stem Cells Heal Scar Damage After Heart Attack

Alice Park wrote 3 months ago: For the first time, researchers have used stem cells from a patient’s own heart to repair the … more →

Tags: Heart Disease, Medicine, Heart, heart attack, heart cells, Scar Tissue, Stem cells

Early Success in a Human Embryonic Stem Cell Trial to Treat Blindness

Alice Park wrote 4 months ago: For the researchers at UCLA’s Jules Stein Eye Institute who launched the first-ever study to s … more →

Tags: Medicine, Advanced Cell Technology, Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Macular Degeneration, Stargardt's macular dystrophy, Stem cells, UCLA

Cancer Patient Receives a Man-Made Windpipe

Alice Park wrote 4 months ago: A Baltimore man became only the second patient to receive a completely synthetic trachea, to replace … more →

Tags: Medicine, Organ Transplant, Paolo Macchiarini, Trachea, windpipe

First Human Heart Stem Cell Trial Shows Promise

Meredith Melnick wrote 6 months ago: (Updated) For the first time, doctors were able to improve heart function and reverse tissue damage … more →

Tags: Medicine

A Stem Cell First: Using the 'Dolly' Method on Human Cells

Alice Park wrote 7 months ago: Scientists from the New York Stem Cell Foundation Laboratory reported on Wednesday the first success … more →

Tags: Medicine, Cloning, Dieter Egli, dolly, embryonic stem cells, George Daley, iPS cells, Nature, New York Stem Cell Foundation

First European Embryonic Stem Cell Trial Gets Green Light

Alice Park wrote 8 months ago: Health authorities in the U.K. approved on Thursday Europe’s first clinical trial involving em … more →

Tags: Medicine, Advanced Cell Technology, blindness, embryonic stem cells, Eye Diseases, human embryonic stem cells, Macular Degeneration, Moorfields Eye Hospital, stargardt's

Stem Cell Discovery Offers Clues for Reversing Baldness

Meredith Melnick wrote 9 months ago: Yale researchers report that signals from stem cells in the fatty layer of the skin may trigger the … more →

Tags: Medicine, bald, Baldness cure, Hair Growth, Male baldness, Stem cells, Treatment, Yale

Judge Dismisses Case That Challenged Stem Cell Research

Alice Park wrote 10 months ago: After a year of legal uncertainty, a federal judge ruled that U.S. taxpayer dollars can be used to s … more →

Tags: Medicine, human embryonic stem cells, National Institutes of Health, Royce Lamberth, stem cell law suit, Stem Cell Research, Stem cells

Cancer Patient Gets World's First Artificial Trachea

Meredith Melnick wrote 10 months ago: For the first time, a patient has been successfully transplanted with an artificial trachea, created … more →

Tags: Medicine, artificial trachea, artificial urethra, Harvard Bioscience, Karolinska Institute, Paolo Macchiarini, Regenerative Medicine, Tissue Engineering, Wake Forest University

Could Stem-Cell Transplants Help the Japanese Nuclear Workers?

Meredith Melnick wrote 1 year ago: Japanese authorities have proposed the precautionary measure of harvesting and banking stem cells fr … more →

Tags: Medicine, Stem cells, Radiation, stem cell transplant, fukushima, bone marrow

You May Be Less Bald Than You Think

Meredith Melnick wrote 1 year ago: Not long ago, I was having dinner with a friend in his late 20s, and when the topic somehow turned t … more →

Tags: Medicine, Stem cells, Baldness, [regneration]

FDA Approves Second Trial of Stem-Cell Therapy

Alice Park wrote 1 year ago: For only the second time, the Food and Drug Administration approved a company’s request to test an e … more →

Tags: Medicine, Stem cells, Advanced Cell Technology, geron, embryonic stem cells

A Stem Cell Breakthrough May Ease the Way to Human Treatments

Alice Park wrote 1 year ago: It’s been a good week for advocates of stem cell research, both politically and scientifically. On W … more →

Tags: Medicine, Stem cells, human embryonic stem cells, inducd pluripotent stem cells, Yamanaka, reprogramming, Regenerative Medicine


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