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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 San [...]

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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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Stem cell policy for the U.S. got tweaked a bit this week according to NewsDaily. The new changes should help qualify more corporate and scientific researches. The changes are described as “technical”, and don’t delve into the ethical policies that have been imposed, however. The basic overview of the change is that they have broadened [...]

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We have just been informed that the first human embryonic stem cell treatment may be approved by the FDA for human testing. While the treatment was approved for testing back in January, testing in humans with cervical damage wasn’t approved because preclinical testing with rats hadn’t been completed.
Results of the cervical study currently appear [...]

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Every time I see stem cells in a headline you can expect to see me post about it. Why? Simply because the benefits of stem cell research are off the charts, and for some reason we have many people that don’t want us doing it for various reasons (mostly because they don’t understand it, combined [...]

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