Jacket Grows From Living Tissue
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Put off by the idea of wearing jackets made from dead animal skins, a team of Australian researchers attempts to grow a stitchless coat from live cells. By Lakshmi Sandhana.
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A novel fabric mesh sleeve that works like a girdle to reshape enlarged hearts showed promise in treating patients with heart failure and will be submitted for US regulatory
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Samples of human bone can be turned into jewellery by growing them in the laboratory.
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A molecule that promotes the growth of the young heart shows promise as a treatment for heart attack in animal studies and is being readied for human trials, researchers report.
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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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Scientists find a way to grow hair follicles on furless mice using stem cells. Now, they hope to extend the research to humans. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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There is growth, but it's not homemade.
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Scientists have cultured small pieces of heart tissue which beat in the same way as the whole organ. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology team hope the work will lead to new ways of repairing heart damage.
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Scientists discover how the skin of the fingertips protects itself against a common bug that causes diarrhoea.
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Bacteria that thrive on human skin, oilâs lasting presence, new images of Titan and more.
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Scientists develop a method of routinely growing stem cells in conditions similar to the human body.
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Scientists have cultured small pieces of heart tissue which beat in the same way as the whole organ.
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A novel 3-D imaging technique provides a first look at the internal structure of human skin cells.
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Surgeons have used stem cells from fat to help repair skull damage in a 7-year-old girl in Germany, in what&#39;s apparently the first time such fat-derived cells have been exploited to grow bone in a human.
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Sheets of elastic, sticky polymers could replace sutures and provide long-term drug delivery.
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A novel fabric mesh sleeve that works like a girdle to reshape enlarged hearts showed promise in treating patients with heart failure and will be submitted for U.S. regulatory approval this year, according to researchers and the company that makes the device.
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It's another step in the quest to create artificial organisms: Scientists have synthesized the complete DNA of a type of bacteria. The experiment, published online Thursday by the journal Science, isn't a living germ, just its genetic structure.