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(BBC) – A man with a rare form of blood cancer has travelled 10,000 miles to meet the stranger who saved his life. Luke Melling, 31, from Melbourne, Australia, says he was “staring death in the face” before receiving a …
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(Nature) – Researchers have coaxed stem cells to grow into amniotic sacs filled with fluid. The model sacs, which grew to roughly the same size as a four-week-old sac surrounding a developing embryo, could be used to study the protective …
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(NPR) – Patients suffering from Parkinson’s disease may soon benefit from a powerful treatment option: stem-cell transplants. In a pair of small studies designed primarily to test safety, two teams of researchers found that stem cells transplanted into the brains …
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(NPR) – Scientists have re-created a pain pathway in the brain by growing four key clusters of human nerve cells in a dish. This laboratory model could be used to help explain certain pain syndromes, and offer a new way …
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(MIT Technology Review) – Although it may seem like science fiction, recent technological progress has pushed this concept into the realm of plausibility. Pluripotent stem cells, one of the earliest cell types to form during development, can give rise to …
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(Wired) – In an advance for treating male infertility, researchers transplanted a patient with his own sperm-forming stem cells that were collected from testicular tissue when he was a child. Jaiwen Hsu was an active 11-year-old when he developed pain …
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(Gizmodo) – Over 90% of patients with severely damaged corneas responded to the treatment in an early clinical trial. The next frontier of stem cell transplantation might involve the eyes. In research out today, scientists report that an experimental therapy …
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from Bioethics.com