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Breakthrough: Human Hearts Can Grow New Cells
4/20/2009 11:50:00 AM
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.
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Horse Stem Cell Technique to be Tested on Humans
4/16/2009 9:00:00 AM
It's rare for veterinary medicine to lead human medicine, but race horses are a different breed. A stem cell technique that has been used to quickly repair the tendons of race horses will be tried in humans for the first time. British biotech firm MedCell Bioscience Ltd said on Wednesday it would start clinical tests within 12 months to extract Mesenchymal adult stem cells from a patien...
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Breakthrough: Australian Scientists Regrow Mice Muscle Tissue from Adult Stem Cells
3/4/2009 10:05:00 AM
Australian scientists have become the first in the world to use adult stem cells (from a donor) to regrow damaged muscle tissue (in mice), offering hope to sufferers of muscular dystrophy. They overcame the problem of getting the donor cells to survive for more than an hour.
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Breakthrough: UCLA Team Creates Nerve Cells From Skin - Bypassing Embryos
2/25/2009 10:27:00 AM
A team from the University of California Los Angeles led by William Lowry, created the first motor neurons from artificial embryonic stem cells, called induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, which were in turn created from ordinary skin cells. This has huge implications for the debate over the use of and need for embryonic stem cells. Their next step is to attach their neur...
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Treatment: Police Dog Healed with Own Stem Cells
2/10/2009 11:06:48 AM
Cris, a Fremont PD police dog was given stem cell therapy to repair a torn muscle. Eleven weeks after Dr. Gary Brown, a veterinary surgeon, extracted the dog's own fat cells and injected them into Cris, the cells look like normal muscle.
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Human Trials: California's First Stem Cell therapy to Repair Human Heart
1/17/2009 9:31:00 AM
California's first stem cell therapy study will repair human hearts. 45 patients will be injected with millions of adult stem cells that will grow and replace damaged heart cells. |
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