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Editors Breakthrough: Human Hearts Can Grow New Cells 4/20/2009 11:50:00 AM

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In the April 3 issue of the journal Science, a team from University of Toronto and University of Wisconsin-Madison announced their discovery that heart cells regenerate throughout a human lifetime, with a 1 percent annual turnover rate at age 25, falling to a 0.45 percent turnover rate at age 75.

Therefore, the human heart must have it's own stem cells.

Editors Video: Actual Bone Marrow Aspiration and Biopsy in 10 Minutes 2/2/2009 6:00:00 PM

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Video of an actual bone marrow aspiration and biopsy on a patient at the Odette Cancer Center, Toronto, Ontario on March 10 2008.

Takes only 10 minutes.

Editors Breakthrough: Scientists Have Discovered the Aging Gene - May Slow Down Aging Process 1/17/2009 12:32:00 PM

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Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California and the University of Montreal teamed up to discover the gene that regulates cell aging in the brain of mammals.

Editors Breakthrough: Scientists Can Now Tell The Difference Between a Normal Stem Cell and Cancer Stem Cell 1/9/2009 3:30:00 PM

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Canadian scientists have announced for the first time how to tell the difference between normal stem cells and cancer stem cells in humans.

In time, this will allow doctors to kill the cancerous cells, and to only grow good cells.

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