Long Road Ahead For Heart Stem Cells
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A new therapy shows glimpses of promise, but proving a benefit in heart patients could be hard.
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NEW YORK  - Patients with heart failure  experienced a marked improvement after being given an injection  of their own stem cells, investigators reported today at the  Annual Meeting of the Society for Thoracic Surgery in Tampa,  Florida.
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Medical researchers in Brazil say they have found that patients with diseased hearts can apparently regrow heart muscle and arteries after being injected with bone marrow stem cells.
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If a technique used in mice can be adapted to human cells, it would let scientists use a patientâs skin cells to generate new heart, liver or kidney cells.
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Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States are close to mending broken hearts. They have managed to create a small swatch of heart tissue that displays many of the hallmarks
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Researchers at MIT are one step closer to creating patches for damaged hearts: They've used rat cells to construct a beating slice of cardiac tissue about the size of a dime. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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Possible stem cells identified in the mouse pancreas could hold the key to new treatments for type 1 diabetes. Researchers at the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada believe that the cells
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Passing electric current in pulses through transplanted heart cells is bringing us closer to a grow-your-own heart patch, said US researchers.
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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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Nov. 4, 2004 -- Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania have successfully grown stem cells that make sperm, which could eventually lead to new treatments for male infertility.
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Umbilical cord stem cells and a drug that facilitates their entry into the brain may be able to reduce stroke size and damage in humans.
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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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A committee hears testimony on the possible usefulness of stem cells and current research restrictions, but it's an argument that boils down to when human life begins. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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A heart patient who had muscle cells transferred from his leg to his heart makes good progress.
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Researchers have taken ordinary skin cells from a mouse and reprogrammed them to look and act like embryonic stem cells in a long-promised experiment that provides an alternative way to get the valued and controversial cells.
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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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Donor hearts could make good scaffolding for new organs.