Living To 150

This is an incredible transplant story.
Two years ago an Italian woman had part of her windpipe replaced using a transplant plus her own stem cells, after the windpipe had been eaten away by tuberculosis.
Last week a much more advanced operation was carried out on a 10-year old boy who had a congenitally narrowed windpipe; a [...]

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The concerns with stem cell research came about mainly for ethical and religious reasons. One bright light on the horizon is the development of new methods of generating stem cells.

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The first embryonic stem cells were extracted from human embryos only ten years ago. Already, Geron is embarking on a trial treating patients with recently damaged spinal cords.

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california-w200-h200Thanks to the residents of California, stem cell research has received a huge boost. Stem cell research is a cornerstone of the huge leaps forward we will make in medicine over the next 30 years.

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In June this year, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine approved $60m worth of funding to fund 15 grants aimed at moving some of the stunning results from stem cells from the lab to clinical practice.
The pace of progress with stem cell research means that results can progress from project conception to clinic use in [...]

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Millions of people facing blindness because of AMD (age-related macular degeneration) will receive respite thanks to UK stem cell research. The collaboration between world-famous Moorfields Eye Hospital and University College, both London based, will see a 45 minutes operation which is expected to enable surgeons to ‘patch ‘ the damage caused by the disease.
The treatment [...]

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Alternative HealthZine reports that stem cells will soon be used to cure deafness.
Scientists at Sheffield University are on the way to creating the most important hearing cells – the hair cells which detect sound – from a patient’s own stem cells.
Once this has been done – in just a few years – many [...]

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A girl who had in the UK who had a third of her heart removed as a baby has made a full recovery.
Now 10 years old, a MRI scan can not even detect scar tissue anywhere on the heart.
Kirsty Collier was born with abnormal blood vessels which caused her serious heart problems [...]

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The issue of stem cell ethics has once more arisen; this time related to blood transfusions.
Britain is a leading nation in stem cell research, mainly because America was held back until recently by ex-President Bush’s funding restrictions, since reversed by President Obama.
New UK research now plans to have infection-free blood available for infusions within 3 [...]

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Stem cell ethics have started to become easier after scientists have produced the first pluripotent cell from normal skin cells. A pluripotent cell is one which can differentiate into any type of body cell.
Previously, the only pluripotents cells were those from embryos, or from the umbilical cord of the newborn.
Embryonic Research Still Necessary
For now, [...]

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