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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.
When IVF creates excess embryos, women are faced with a choice: store them indefinitely, donate them to others or offer them to research.
The first patients to receive human embryonic stem cell transplants say their lives have been transformed by the experimental procedure.
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.
Health authorities in the U.K. approved on Thursday Europe’s first clinical trial involving embryonic stem cells.
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.
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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.
Despite the imminent danger to their health and their lives, a cadre of workers bravely marches every day into the belly of the Fukushima nuclear power plant in an attempt to bring its unstable reactors under control. Now a group of scientists has proposed a bold plan to help preserve the workers’ imperiled health.
Japanese authorities have proposed the precautionary measure of harvesting and banking stem cells from the bone marrow of workers at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, in order to transplant the cells back into those who may become exposed to dangerous levels of radiation.
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