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LifeZette |
How Stem Cells Might Help Us Fight Aging
LifeZette There’s a huge market for diet products, cosmetics, and supplements claiming to help you look and feel younger. These products make billions of dollars worldwide, but most don’t have significant, proven health benefits. At best, they may keep the more … |
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Monkeys With Parkinson’s Disease Successfully Treated With Human Stem Cell Transplants
Technology Networks “Dlk1 is one of the predictive markers of cell quality for DA neurons made from embryonic stem cells and transplanted into rat. We found Dlk1 in DA neurons transplanted into monkey. We are investigating Dlk1 to evaluate the quality of the cells for … |
Medical News Today |
Parkinson’s: Stem cells restore nerve function in monkeys
Medical News Today iPSCs are cells that have been taken from a child or an adult’s tissue and genetically modified to resemble embryonic stem cells – that is, to be able to take the form of any other adult cell types. In the case of Parkinson’s, scientists have been … Scientists are ready to treat Parkinson’s with stem cells — QuartzQuartz Trials to inject stem cells into brains of Parkinson’s patients could begin next yearTelegraph.co.uk ‘Reprogrammed’ stem cells fight Parkinson’s disease in monkeysReuters Nature.com –The Times –The Independent all 25 news articles » |
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Synthetic biology students refine wastewater management
University of Virginia The Cavalier Daily The University’s iGem team, comprised of eight students, is working to improve the wastewater treatment process by manipulating a bacterium called Paracoccus denitrificans. iGem, which stands for international genetically engineered machines, is a … |
Los Angeles Times |
US clears breakthrough gene therapy for childhood leukemia
ABC News The Food and Drug Administration calls the approval historic, the first gene therapy to hit the U.S. market. Made from scratch for every patient, it’s one of a wave of “living drugs” under development to fight additional blood cancers and other tumors … Hailing a breakthrough in fighting cancer, FDA approves gene therapy that functions as a ‘living drug’Los Angeles Times FDA Approves Groundbreaking Gene Therapy for CancerMIT Technology Review FDA Approves First Gene Therapy For LeukemiaNPR FDA.gov –CNN all 194 news articles » |