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An artist is growing a hand out of human stem cells – Ars Technica

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2016-05-24 NEWS

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An artist is growing a hand out of human stem cells
Ars Technica
In the gallery above, you can see the hand inside a bioreactor, as well as what the trellis looks like under magnification. Next, she needed a cell line to grow on the trellis. Karle told Ars that she’d hoped at first to harvest her own stem cells or

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Stem Cell-Coated Plug Promising for Perianal Fistula
MedPage Today
SAN DIEGO — A bioprosthesis plug soaked in autologous mesenchymal stem cells appeared to heal refractory perianal fistulas that commonly occur in Crohn’s disease, researchers reported here. In 11 patients treated thus far, nine achieved complete

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Genea Biocells Publishes First Human Stem Cell Model of Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD)
PR Newswire (press release)
SAN DIEGO, May 24, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Californian/Australian drug discovery company Genea Biocells has demonstrated and described the world’s first human stem cell-based cellular model for a muscular dystrophy that is suitable for high-throughput …

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