Doctors Grow New Jaw Bone in Man's Back Using Stem Cells
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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 call an "ambitious" experiment.
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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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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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German scientists say they&#39;re the first to use stem cells to grow human bone, using the master cells to repair skull damage on a 7-year-old girl, the Associated Press reports.
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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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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.
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LONDON - A German man was able to chow down on a brastwurst sandwich after surgeons grew a new jaw bone on his back muscle and transplanted the bone to his mouth.
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Scientists in Finland said they had replaced a 65-year-old patient's upper jaw with a bone transplant cultivated from stem cells isolated from his own fatty tissue and grown inside his abdomen.
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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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Doctors have implanted adult stem cells extracted from a man's fat tissue through liposuction into his heart, in an experimental treatment for angina and heart disease, a Spanish hospital said on Tuesday.
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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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Japanese scientists have generated new teeth and whiskers in mice using just a handful of embryonic cells&#8212;a key development in the quest to grow replacement organs for humans.
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Scientists have identified a cardiac stem cell that could be the basis for new heart therapies
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A US team say it has created embryos that are clones of two men - a step towards patient-specific stem cells.
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Researchers are developing a new "bone cement" which could give hope to spinal injury victims.
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Japanese researchers said on Sunday they had grown normal-looking teeth from single cells in lab dishes, and transplanted them into mice.