A new era for stem-cell study
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Researchers anticipate a major recruiting effort and construction boom as California&#39;s new stem-cell experiment gets under way, creating what amounts to an independent West Coast version of the National Institutes of Health.
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UK scientists are attempting to restore vision in people with a leading cause of blindness using stem cells.
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Toronto University scientists have said that stem cells can be a cure for diabetes, thereby eradicating the need for replacing insulin.
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Researchers in Wisconsin and Japan said yesterday that they have turned ordinary human skin cells into what are effectively embryonic stem cells without using embryos or women's eggs -- the previously essential ingredients that have embroiled the medically promising field in a nearly decade-long ...
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Curing blindness and treating diabetes "naturally" in mice are just two of the recent breakthroughs that suggest stem cells hold real potential for helping humans.
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Scientists have discovered a new type of  embryonic stem cell in mice and rats that should speed up  research into regenerative medicine and help in the hunt for  cures to a range of diseases.
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Scientists have moved closer to being able to use human stem cells to manufacture blood.
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A third team of researchers has found a way to convert an ordinary skin cell into valued embryonic-like stem cells, with the potential to grow batches of cells that can be directed to form any kind of tissue.
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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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It goes against the current scientific conventional wisdom. But a suprising new study suggests that therapeutic cloning may be more successful using the most mature adult cells
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UK researchers say the discovery of a new type of "missing link" stem cell in rodents could boost research.
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Scientists have developed an easy-to-use technique for reprogramming a skin cell of a mouse back to the embryonic state, which could have implications for regenerative medicine in humans.
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Scientists are working on a technique to repair fractures using a patient's own stem cells.
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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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A stem cell cure for diabetes is a step closer, Canadian researchers are predicting.
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Creating a bank to store a new type of  stem cell produced from donors' ordinary skin cells could help  reduce time and money for treating patients with regenerative  medicine in the future, a Japanese researcher said on  Wednesday.
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TORONTO (CP) - A group of Canadian researchers has made a discovery of potential stem cells in the pancreas, a finding that could not only one day lead to new treatments for diabetes but also change the way scientists understand the way cells develop.