Anthony Atala on growing new organs
This is actually a painting that hangs at the Countway Library at Harvard Medical School. And it shows the first time an organ was ever transplanted. In the front, you see, actually, Joe Murray getting the...
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Alan Russell on regenerating our bodies
I'm going to talk to you today about hopefully converting fear into hope. When we go to the physician today, when we go to the doctor's office and we walk in, there are words that we just don't want to hear...
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Stem Cell Therapy Holds Promise for Kidney Disease
THURSDAY, Aug. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers may be one step closer to harnessing the power of stem cells to help treat, and potentially cure, kidney disease...
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Thanks to a New Stem Cell Therapy, a 9-year Old Autistic Boy Talks to his Father for the First Time
Athens, Greece April 13, 2010 -- Following remarkable improvement in the condition of children who have received this stem cell treatment for autism, a group....
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'Liposuction leftovers' easily converted to iPS cells, study shows
Globs of human fat removed during liposuction conceal versatile cells that are more quickly and easily coaxed to become induced pluripotent stem cells...
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Adult fat cells easily become multi-purpose stem cells: Stanford research
Get out your liposuction wands, everybody: that fat you've been carrying on your hips, thighs and belly can be transformed with relative ease into cells....
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Fountain of Youth Comes True
The ability to look younger has been possible with the onslaught of anti-aging treatments and cosmetic procedures. However, the ability to actually become younger is now possible through the new Autologous Stem Cell Transplant (ASCT).
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Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital Leads World's First Adult Stem Cell Study Using Patient's Own Fat Tissue
This week, for the first time in humans, a heart failure patient received adult stem cells – taken from his own adipose (fat) tissue – which were processed and injected directly into the heart muscle with a special catheter.
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