Teen gets scholarship for her stem cell research
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A 17-year-old from Mendota Heights, Minn., has been turning heads with her unconventional umbilical cord stem cell research. On Wednesday, Nicole Ali was in the nation&#39;s capital, accepting a $50,000 scholarship for her work.
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A teenager from the San Diego, California area has won The Siemens Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science and Technology for his &quot;Gyro-Gen,&quot; a machine that produces electricity from ocean waves.
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LOS ANGELES/SAN FRANCISCO  - A proposal to spend  $3 billion in California state funds on stem-cell research is  likely to attract scientists and create jobs, but some critics  question whether the investment will pay off.
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Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have found a fundamental mechanism used by embryonic stem cells to assure that genetically damaged stem cells do not divide and pass along the damage to daughter stem cells.
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The life of a high school science fair winner isn't easy. But the research itself can be earth-shattering.
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Trina Ray admitted she was kind of a science geek back at Corvallis High School. But now, at 37, she&#39;s getting the payoff for spending much of her teenage years in the lab.
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Hannah Mollie Stimell, a 13-month-old girl, endured an arduous and complex treatment that her parents and doctors hoped would cure her of a fatal genetic disease.
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German scientists have repaired the severely damaged skull of a 7-year-old girl using stem cells derived from body fat. The wound in the child&#39;s skull was too large to treat with conventional bone grafts.
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Zambian high school student  Bibian Phiri will conduct her first science experiment this  year -- a small but important breakthrough paid for by a  massive poverty relief plan for Africa.
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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.
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Doctors use stem cells from liposuctioned fat in an experimental procedure to fix breast defects in women who have had cancerous lumps removed.
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A woman who has been paralysed for almost 20 years has started to walk again after scientists injected stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood into her spine.
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A teenager who took her campaign to study GCSE French to the prime minister has won her battle.
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A group of nursing school classmates are part of a growing contingent in Saturday&#39;s Race for the Cure, to benefit the Susan B. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
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Eight months ago, Missouri seemed well on its way to becoming a national leader in stem cell research.
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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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NEW YORK  - Transplanting stem cells from a  healthy woman to her sister with severe rheumatoid arthritis  apparently cured the disease, researchers report in the journal  Arthritis & Rheumatism.