Teams mimic stem cells using skin cells
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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 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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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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After years of searching, Shinya Yamanaka found a way to turn adult skin cells into the equivalent of human embryonic stem cells without using an actual embryo.
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Reports show cells can help correcting faulty heart rhythms and fighting vision-destroying diseases.
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New procedure lets adult mouse cells mimic stem cells, bringing hope to anticloning activists.
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Researchers are using human embryonic stem cells to determine the toxicity of potential pharmaceuticals.
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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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Cord blood offers an ethical means of using stem cells to heal illness.
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Multiple sclerosis patients are being injected with their own stem cells in clinical trials to test a new therapy.
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Immune cells taken from one person may be able to join the battle against cancer in another, says a researcher.
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New experiments suggest stem cell research may be possible using skin patches rather than embyros.
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Leaders of embryonic stem-cell banks in the United States and the United Kingdom pledge to work together to promote research, create standards and distribute each other's cells. By the Associated Press.
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If a new method works, scientists could derive embryonic stem cells -- without destroying embryos -- from more than 3,000 cells discarded annually at fertility clinics. In Bodyhack.
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Scientists have discovered a new type of  embryonic stem cell in mice and rats that should speed up  research into regenerative medicine and help in the hunt for  cures to a range of diseases.
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Scientists are nearer the creation of tiny artificial blood vessels after growing miniscule tubes out of stem cells.
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Researchers have cloned healthy mice from skin cells for the first time.