Stem-Cell Method May Cheat Death
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Reproduction experts in Chicago might have an elegant solution to the explosive moral dilemma posed by embryonic stem-cell research. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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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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Embryonic stem cells, proto-cells that become the different cells in a baby, have a safety mechanism to prevent passing on damaged DNA, US scientists report.
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Science & environment: Hopes boosted by experiments showing that human embryonic stem cells could be turned into a variety of brain cells
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SCHILLER PARK, Illinois  - Not so long ago, if you would have told Ed McNally that one day he'd be shipping stem cells, bone tissue and tendons instead of documents, he would probably have questioned your sanity.
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Researchers came a step closer to finding a safe way to use stem cells in clinical treatment Thursday when a team of Japanese scientists announced they found a way to induce stem cells without triggering tumors.
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Research on embryonic stem cells continues to ignite national debate over the beginning of human life. And with the Legislature likely to take up the issue in its next session, many worry that inaccurate information is being perpetuated by stem cell proponents and their counterparts.
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An advance in stem cell research that was intended to resolve moral differences over the promising but controversial field has ignited fresh conflict instead.
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WASHINGTON -- A procedure that encourages an egg to begin embryo development without being fertilized could suggest a new way to produce stem cells, at least for certain patients.
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A Chinese neurosurgeon arouses controversy for using cells from aborted foetuses to help cure patients affected by spinal and brain damage.
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By MALCOLM RITTER  NEW YORK - Scientists say they have created a stem cell line from a human embryo that had stopped developing naturally, and so was considered dead. Using such embryos might ease ethical concerns about creating such cells, they suggested.
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Scientists looking for a cure for skin cancer have stumbled on something else: the reason why hair turns gray. It turns out that one of the most common signs of aging occurs because of the death of stem cells
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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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University of Pennsylvania researchers have figured out how to produce a continuous supply of sperm stem cells from mice, a technique that could one day be used to save endangered species or treat infertility in men.
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Scientists have identified a cardiac stem cell that could be the basis for new heart therapies
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - 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 day make many heart transplants unnecessary, Brazilian  researchers said on Friday.
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Patients should beware of so-called stem cell wonder cures as most have not been properly tested, experts say.