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World's Second Human Trials of Embryonic Stem Cells May Make the Blind See Again
4/20/2009 11:00:00 AM
In what would be the second human trials of embryonic stem cells (the first for spinal cord injuries), a UK team is applying for regulatory approval from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, the Human Tissue Authority, in order to replace damaged cells caused by age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the most common cause of blindness. Embryonic stem cells will be re...
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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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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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