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Baby’s stem cell transplant goes well, doctors say – CTV News

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2017-03-19 NEWS

CTV News

Baby’s stem cell transplant goes well, doctors say
CTV News
It’s a long road ahead for Madalayna Ducharme after her stem cell transplant Friday. The seven-month-old baby was diagnosed with malignant infantile osteopetrosis, which stunts growth, impairs vision and hearing and if untreated can be fatal. The girl

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2017-03-19 NEWS

Stem cell therapy helps patients with osteoarthritis
Palm Beach Post
Stem cell therapy for osteoarthritis is being studied for efficacy in improving the complications in patients through the use of their own stem cells. These procedures may help patients who don’t respond to typical drug treatment, want to reduce their

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2017-03-19 NEWS

New York Post

The terrifying DNA discoveries that are making science-fiction fact
New York Post
These questions need answers quickly, as cutting-edge procedures, including a new technique called CRISPR-Cas9, move closer to everyday use. CRISPR is the friendly acronym for the term “Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats,” and …
New report gives cautious support for embryonic gene editing in humansPRI

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2017-03-18 NEWS

Experimental stem cell treatment leaves 3 women blind
San Bernardino County Sun
An experimental treatment — which blinded three women after stem cells from abdominal fat were injected into their eyes — was advertised on a government-run clinical trial website but lacked proper safeguards, researchers have reported. The report in