Researchers Report Growing Stem Cells From Dead Embryos
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Researchers reported Thursday that they had cultivated a colony of human embryonic stem cells from an apparently dead embryo, a strategy some have suggested might be less controversial than conventional approaches that require the destruction of living embryos.
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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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Scientists have identified a cardiac stem cell that could be the basis for new heart therapies
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Scientists who incited controversy last month over a stem cell paper published in Nature now show their stem cells can repair damaged retinas. In Bodyhack.
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A fundamental mechanism has been discovered that allows embryonic stem cells to divide indefinitely while avoiding the duplication of genetically damaged cells that can lead to cancer.
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Mouse embryos created through a "virgin birth" process called parthenogenesis show that egg cells can be a source of valued embryonic stem cells, researchers said on Thursday.
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Making stem cells with destroying human embryos could revolutionize medical research in the U.S.--and help unlock the very secrets of life.
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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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Viable embryos have been created from dead people by fusing their cells with empty cow eggs, a controversial fertility scientist claimed on Tuesday.
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Human therapeutic cloning has moved a  step closer after U.S. researchers said they had successfully  created embryonic stem cells from monkey embryos.
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Transplanting brain cells produced from human embryonic stem cells helped fix stroke damage in the brains of rats, according to scientists who hope to test the same thing in people within about five years.
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In a big step toward a long-sought goal, three teams of scientists say they've produced the equivalent of embryonic stem cells, at least in mice, without taking the controversial step of destroying embryos.
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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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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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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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Microscopic embryonic stem cells might hold the answer to afflictions from baldness, wrinkles, and age spots to the most intractable diseases.
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Scientists are nearer the creation of tiny artificial blood vessels after growing miniscule tubes out of stem cells.