Fat tissue stem cells used to grow bone
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Stem cells from fat tissue have been used to help grow bone to repair the damaged skull of a 7-year-old German girl, according to a report in a German medical journal.
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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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Scientists have used stem cells and a potion of nerve-friendly chemicals to not just bridge a damaged spinal cord but actually re-grow the circuitry needed to move a muscle, helping partially paralyzed rats walk.
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Scientists are preparing for a large  clinical trial in 2008 which aims to use stem cells to help 400  patients with spinal cord injuries in Hong Kong, mainland China  and Taiwan grow new cells and nerve fibers.
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US scientists have discovered how fat is stored in the body's cells - promising new treatments for obesity.
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A drug used to treat bone marrow  cancer may also help treat osteoporosis by stimulating stem  cells, U.S. researchers reported on Friday.
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In a new study, researchers describe a man whose jaw was successfully reconstructed using a bone that was grown from scratch under the muscles in his back.
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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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Embryonic stem cells may not have to actually grow replacement body parts to be useful. New research suggests these cells also secrete healing molecules powerful enough to reverse a lethal birth defect in mice.
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Infusing patients with bone marrow cells can reinvigorate their dying hearts and grow tiny new arteries and heart muscle tissue, a treatment that may one
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US researchers find a way to trigger bone production, raising hopes of new drugs to treat osteoporosis.
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Austrian researchers have successfully treated incontinence in women using the patients&#39; own muscle-derived stem cells. The women were suffering stress incontinence, a condition that affects almost
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Embryonic stem cells, valued by researchers for their ability to become any kind of tissue that a body might need, also produce druglike compounds that can help ailing organs repair themselves, scientists are reporting today.
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Scientists in Japan claim to be able to increase the size of a woman's breasts using fat and stem cells.
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Stem cells taken from muscle tissue can be used to build new blood vessels for transplants, researchers reported on Friday.
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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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LONDON - German surgeons say they have managed to repair severe damage to a seven-year-old girl&#39;s skull using stem cells taken from her fat tissue.