It’s been 17 years since Dolly the sheep was cloned from a mammary cell. And now scientists applied the same technique to …
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Young Girl Receives Lifesaving Windpipe Transplant Made From Her Stem Cells
Hannah Warren was born without a trachea but now has one made from plastic fibers and a stew of her own stem cells.
Stem Cell Scientists Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine
In what researchers view as validation of the field, the Nobel committee on Monday recognized pioneering contributions to stem cell science by John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka
Hope for Infertility Treatments: Scientists Make New Eggs from Mouse Stem Cells
Japanese researchers have produced mouse eggs from stem cells that bred healthy offspring, a breakthrough that may one day help treat human infertility.
Scientists Restore Hearing in Animals Using Human Stem Cells
The new advance holds great promise for people with hearing loss, but scientists won’t know for years whether a similar treatment would really work in humans
Stem Cells Heal Scar Damage After Heart Attack
For the first time, researchers have used stem cells from a patient’s own heart to repair the damage to the muscle that occurs during heart attack.
Family MattersInfertility
Gingrich Wants Scrutiny of IVF Clinics: Why That’s Not the Worst Idea
When IVF creates excess embryos, women are faced with a choice: store them indefinitely, donate them to others or offer them to research.
Early Success in a Human Embryonic Stem Cell Trial to Treat Blindness
The first patients to receive human embryonic stem cell transplants say their lives have been transformed by the experimental procedure.
A Stem Cell First: Using the ‘Dolly’ Method on Human Cells
Scientists from the New York Stem Cell Foundation Laboratory reported on Wednesday the first success in using the cloning technique that gave rise to Dolly the sheep to generate stem cells using adult human cells.
First European Embryonic Stem Cell Trial Gets Green Light
Health authorities in the U.K. approved on Thursday Europe’s first clinical trial involving embryonic stem cells.
Stem Cell Discovery Offers Clues for Reversing Baldness
Yale researchers report that signals from stem cells in the fatty layer of the skin may trigger the growth of new hair. The study in mice may lead to better understanding and treatments to reverse baldness in humans.
The Healthland Podcast: Menu Calorie Counts, the New Happy Meals, and Polygamy
Welcome again to the podcast, which is now available on iTunes! Click subscribe—it’s free, and you will get this podcast every week on your mobile device. This week we discuss why restaurant calorie counts may not work, why …
Judge Dismisses Case That Challenged Stem Cell Research
After a year of legal uncertainty, a federal judge ruled that U.S. taxpayer dollars can be used to support research on embryonic stem cells.
