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Skin Cells Substitute Embryonic Stem Cells?

Start discussionjackstar harry on July 1st, 2007

Research on human embryonic stem cells involves ethical issues since it will harming the embryos. The embryonic stem cells become important due to its potential result in treatment diseases such as Parkinson.
Skin Cells into Embryonic Stem Cells
Recently, scientiests in the US and Japan could change mouse skin cells into what appear to be embryonic […]

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Create a Vagina? Ask Stem Cells

Start discussionjackstar harry on June 16th, 2007

Can you create a vagina? I can not, but doctors in Italy had created vaginas for two patients. They used stem cells from the patient’s own bodies to reconstruct a vagina.
Next Possible Backthroughs
After success in growing the vaginal tissue, Cinzia Marchese believes that creating intestinal, oral and eye tissues will become next possible breakthroughs.
Woow..! We’ll […]

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Promising, Neural Stem Cells Reduce PD Symptoms in Humans

Start discussionjackstar harry on June 13th, 2007

Yale University’s news release said that a research team from Yale, Harvard, the University of Colorado and the Burnham Institute had shown that neural stem cells reduce Parkinson’s Disease (PD) symptoms in primates. The primates with PD had better movement and appetite, and had diminished tremors after being injected wth human neural stem cells.
Professor Redmond […]

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