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| Ted Talk: Alan Russell - Regenerating our Bodies |
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| Alan Russell gives a great Ted Talk highlighting the original thinking and approach to Regenerative Medicine and stem cell therapy that took place in 2006. He explains a breakthrough way of thinking about disease and injury, using a process that can signal the body to rebuild itself. |
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| The Man Who Grew Back hi Finger Tip |
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| A story of a man who grew back his fingertip using regenerative medicine. |
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| Previously Doubtful Doctor Becomes Advocate for Stem Cells |
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| CNN: Medical Miracle or Con: One American doctor allegedly cured of arthritis through stem cell therapy that took place in Asia in 2011 is on a personal mission to lift restrictions. |
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| Ted Talk: Susan Lim: Transplant cells, not organs |
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| Pioneering surgeon Susan Lim performed the first liver transplant in Asia. But a moral concern with transplants (where do donor livers come from led her to look further, and to ask: Could we be transplanting cells, not whole organs? During a Ted Talk Susan talks through her new research, discovering healing cells in some surprising places. |
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| Stem cells may repair breast cancer damage |
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| A remarkable reconstruction technique is being trialled by British surgeons, who are harvesting stem-cell-enriched fat from women's bodies to plug the dip often left by breast cancer operations. |
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| Stem Cells and Breast Surgery |
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| New Procedure Uses Fat to Augment Women,
but Some Are Wary of Effects
Researchers around the world are seeking ways to regenerate damaged hearts, spines and skin with stem cells. At an operating table here recently, Kotaro Yoshimura leaned over a 51-year-old woman and put stem cells to use for a different purpose: cosmetic breast surgery. |
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| Robarts researchers leading battle on Multiple sclerosis |
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| Multiple sclerosis research being launched at Robarts Research Institute aims to find a way to repair damage from the disease, not just prevent new damage.
"It really is a nasty disease. It hits people in the prime of life," said Robarts scientist Dr. Paula Foster, who is leading the research effort that will focus on using stem cells. |
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| Don't brood over your fat belly! |
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| Troubled with the fat accumulating in your lower belly and thighs? Well, then here’s a reason to rejoice a little- the fat in these areas of your body is rich in stem cells, which hold great scientific potential.
This first of its kind study sought to examine whether fat tissues from different areas of the body vary in stem cell concentration. |
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| EyeCyte, Inc. Secures Series A Funding from Pfizer |
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| EyeCyte, Inc., an early stage stem/progenitor cell-based ophthalmology research and development company based in La Jolla,
California, today announced that it has secured its Series A funding
through an agreement with Pfizer. The financing will fund the company
into 2010 and will be primarily used to drive product development of
the company's initial clinical target, diabetic retinopathy. |
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| Hopes for a body-repair system to cure many ills |
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| Science aims to regenerate damaged parts, says Roger Dobson |
| Imagine a therapy that could cure diseases, repair organs, grow replacement body parts and reverse many of the unwanted effects of ageing. These are just some of the hopes for stem-cell therapy, an area in which the list of potential uses in medicine grows longer almost by the day. |
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| Families will make case for vaccine link to autism |
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| By Kevin Freking, Associated Press Writer |
WASHINGTON - Families claiming that a mercury-based preservative in vaccines triggers autism will challenge mainstream medicine Monday as they take their case to a federal court.
They seek vindication and financial redress from a government fund that helps people injured by shots. |
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| Stem Cells Used To Try To Save Patient's Legs |
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| By Northwestern University |
| A Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine researcher has launched the first U.S. trial in which a purified form of subjects' own adult stem cells was transplanted into their leg muscles with severely blocked arteries to try to grow new small blood vessels and restore
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| Aastrom Announces First Patient Treatment With Autologous Stem Cell Therapy for Heart Failure |
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| By Ann Arbor PRIME NEWSWIRE |
Aastrom Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq:ASTM), a leading regenerative medicine company, today announced that the first patient has been treated with the Company's autologous stem cell therapy for dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). The milestone marks the first human application of Aastrom's Cardiac Repair Cell (CRC) product to regenerate damaged heart tissue in patients with severely impaired cardiac function.
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