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Bionic Eyes, Stem Cells and Gene Therapy: 3 Cutting Edge Cures for Blindness – TIME

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2015-09-09 NEWS

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Bionic Eyes, Stem Cells and Gene Therapy: 3 Cutting Edge Cures for Blindness
TIME
This has led to a number of major advances in the treatment of blindness using implants, gene therapy and stem cells. Even some in the field are stunned at the progress. “If you asked me five or 10 years ago if you could replace lost photoreceptors in

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Mother Says Book on Stem Cell Research Is Too ‘Pornographic’ for Son’s School
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A Tennessee woman is claiming that The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a biography of a black woman whose cervical cancer cells were taken without her consent and used for medical research (a book available in nearly every airport), is “pornographic.

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Donated liposuction stem cells could heal difficult wounds
New Scientist
IT’S a quiet revolution. Simple stem cell therapies are finally making their way towards the clinic, and a treatment for wounds caused by Crohn’s disease could be the first off-the-shelf therapy to get European Union approval. Hard-to-treat wounds near

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2015-09-09 NEWS

Donated liposuction stem cells could heal difficult wounds
New Scientist
IT’S a quiet revolution. Simple stem cell therapies are finally making their way towards the clinic, and a treatment for wounds caused by Crohn’s disease could be the first off-the-shelf therapy to get European Union approval. Hard-to-treat wounds near