Stem Cells Used To Grow New Jawbone
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An amazing surgical procedure has allowed a man to rebuild his own jawbone after he lost it to cancer. The current issue of the medical journal &quot;Lancet&quot; describes the procedure used by surgeons in Germany to grow a new jaw for the man on his upper back.
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SKULL BONE GROWN: In what could be the first time fat-derived stem cells were used to grow bone in a human, surgeons successfully repaired extensive damage to the skull of a 7-year-old girl in Germany.
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British scientists are reportedly working on how they can use stem cells to treat cirrhosis of the liver. A team of researchers at London&#39;s Hammersmith Hospital are testing a process which uses the patient&#39;s
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Researchers have discovered for the first time that the human brain can grow new nerve cells.
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Doctors treat a baby with brittle bone disease while she is still in the womb, using stem cell technology.
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UK researchers are pioneering tests of the use of adult stem cells which could reverse cirrhosis of the liver. London&#39;s Hammersmith Hospitals team will use a patient&#39;s own bone marrow stem cells to treat the disease.
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Researchers are developing a tooth implant which automatically releases medicine.
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Scientists use cloning to create personalized stem cell lines in monkeys.
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German doctors have given a man the ability to have his first solid meal in nine years, by growing him a new jaw bone on his back.
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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 German who had his lower jaw cut out because of cancer has enjoyed his first meal in nine years - a bratwurst sandwich - after surgeons grew a new jaw bone in his back muscle and transplanted it into his ...
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A technique would let scientists use a patientâs skin cell to generate new heart, liver or kidney cells that might be transplantable.
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A German who had his lower jaw cut out because of cancer has enjoyed his first meal in nine years -- a bratwurst sandwich -- after surgeons grew a new jaw bone in his back muscle and transplanted it to his mouth in what experts
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New procedure lets adult mouse cells mimic stem cells, bringing hope to anticloning activists.
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Parkinson's researchers inject human stem cells into primates for the first time, with promising results.
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LONDON: A German who had his lower jaw cut out because of cancer has enjoyed his first solid meal in nine years -- a bratwurst sandwich -- after surgeons grew a new jaw bone in his back muscle and transplanted it to his face.
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LONDON - A German who had his lower jaw cut out because of cancer has enjoyed his first meal in nine years - a bratwurst sandwich - after surgeons grew a new jaw bone in his back muscle and transplanted it to his mouth in what experts call an "ambitious" experiment.    According to this week's issue of The Lancet medical journal, the German doctors used a mesh cage, a growth chemical and the patient's own bone marrow, containing stem cells, to create a new jaw bone that fit exactly into the gap left by the cancer surgery...