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Ponce de Leon looked for a spring that had waters of eternal youth. Scientists search for a Fountain of Youth is trying to figure out just what it is that slows aging processes in animals, and eventually humans. A recent study of fruit flies may hold the key. Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological [...]

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Dieter Egli and Scott Noggle at The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) Laboratory in New York City has made an important advance in the development of patient-specific stem cells that could impact the study and treatment of diseases such as diabetes, Parkinson’s, and Alzheimer’s. Scientists have derived individual stem cells from individuals by adding [...]

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We are all eagerly awaiting the day when the final solution to the baldness gene is discovered wand we all can have lush Fabio hair. Well…us with thinning hairlines in our family are at least. Keck School of Medicine of USC scientists deciphered how hair stem cells in mice and rabbits can communicate with each [...]

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In August 2010 the courts imposed a federal ban on embryonic stem cell research. This week the Court of Appeals overturned this verdict, paving the way for broader exploration of how stem cells function and how they can be harnessed to treat a wide range of currently incurable diseases.. Very good news indeed. The current [...]

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A recently released paper on April 25 had big news for stem cell researchers. Published in the online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco. “It’s a big step forward,” said Kang Zhang, MD, PhD, [...]

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This is a very interesting study to me. While the first thought I had was people that burn their brain cells with drugs and booze, the actual study is designed to help Alzheimer’s patients. U.S. researchers have coaxed stem cells into becoming a type of brain cell that dies off early in people with Alzheimer’s [...]

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The new trial will be on people that have a progressive form of blindness. Massachusetts-based Advanced Cell Technology said it would start testing its stem cell-based treatment on 12 patients with Stargardt’s macular dystrophy. It is the second trial of human embryonic stem cells to be approved by the FDA this year. Just last month, [...]

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Geron Corp. has the first U.S. Food and Drug Administration license to use embryonic stem cells on humans, and have just begun their first test on a spinal cord injury. The patient identity is being kept confidential for obvious reasons. “The patient was enrolled at Shepherd Center, a 132-bed spinal cord and brain injury rehabilitation [...]

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Costa Rica is ordering the country’s largest stem cell clinic to stop offering treatment. The country’s health minister said that there is no proof that the treatment is effective today. Hmmmmm…what is going on down there? About 400 patients, mostly foreigners from the United States, have been treated at the Institute of Cellular Medicine in [...]

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Hair cells deep inside the ear that become damaged during hearing may have found a coaxing by stem cells to regrow. While only done so far in mice, Dr. Kazuo Oshima of Stanford University in California and colleagues, experiments with two types of stem cells, raises the possibility of treating many types of deafness and [...]

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