New method makes embryo-safe stem cells
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In an innovative move, a biotech company has found a new way of making stem cells without destroying embryos, touting it as a way to defuse one of the country's fiercest political and ethical debates.
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A procedure that encourages an egg to begin embryo development without being fertilized could suggest a new way to produce stem cells, at least for certain patients.
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Mouse embryos created through a "virgin birth" process called parthenogenesis show that egg cells can be a source of valued embryonic stem cells, researchers said on Thursday.
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A new discovery about a cellular control mechanism could lead to drugs for both stem cell-driven tissue regeneration and cancer. American researchers at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina
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In a leap forward for stem cell research, three independent teams of scientists reported Wednesday that they have produced the equivalent of embryonic stem cells in mice using skin cells without the controversial destruction of embryos.
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Scientists believe they have made a breakthrough in IVF treatment by creating a human embryo with three separate parents.
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Researchers report that embryonic stem cells sent molecular signals that repaired fatal genetic damage to heart cells in laboratory mice.
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A new study shows that embryonic stem cells can heal defective heart cells in mice. It could be a new way to look at the potential healing power of these controversial cells. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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The latest findings may expand the ways of generating customized stem cells for new treatments
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Scientists use cloning to create personalized stem cell lines in monkeys.
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Researchers came a step closer to finding a safe way to use stem cells in clinical treatment Thursday when a team of Japanese scientists announced they found a way to induce stem cells without triggering tumors.
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Science & environment: Hopes boosted by experiments showing that human embryonic stem cells could be turned into a variety of brain cells
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PHILADELPHIA _ When the subject is stem cell research, the term embryo is not only ethically charged, but increasingly hard to define.  Now, University of Pennsylvania researchers have stretched the definition even further.
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A new way to manipulate human embryonic stem cells offers hope of a treatment for muscular dystrophies.
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Human therapeutic cloning has moved a  step closer after U.S. researchers said they had successfully  created embryonic stem cells from monkey embryos.
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Scientists at a California company reported yesterday that they had created the first mature cloned human embryos from single skin cells taken from adults, a significant advance toward the goal of growing personalized stem cells for patients suffering from various diseases.
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Curing blindness and treating diabetes "naturally" in mice are just two of the recent breakthroughs that suggest stem cells hold real potential for helping humans.