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‘Grow your own’ body parts a step closer after stem cell breakthrough – The Age

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2014-12-10 NEWS

‘Grow your own’ body parts a step closer after stem cell breakthrough
The Age
The prospect of using a patient’s own cells to make organs and tissue to treat a specific medical condition has been boosted after an international team of scientists, including 15 Australians, identified a new kind of stem cell. The newly discovered

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2014-12-10 NEWS

‘Grow your own’ body parts a step closer after stem cell breakthrough
The Age
The prospect of using a patient’s own cells to make organs and tissue to treat a specific medical condition has been boosted after an international team of scientists, including 15 Australians, identified a new kind of stem cell. The newly discovered

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2014-12-10 NEWS

Cambridge Times

Pioneering Toronto scientist’s latest research to demystify stem cells
Cambridge Times
When Mount Sinai researcher Dr. Andras Nagy initiated a project to shine a light into the “black box” of turning specialized cells into stem cells, he wasn’t expecting to find a new type of stem cell. Nagy says “identifying a new class of stem cells

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2014-12-10 NEWS

CityNews

Stem cell breakthrough holds promise for treating blindness, Alzheimer’s
CityNews
A frozen vial of human embryonic stem cells is shown at the University of Michigan Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Mich., on Oct. 22, 2008. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Paul Sancya …