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Can a body’s own stem cells help heal a heart? – Charlotte Observer

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2014-10-19 NEWS

Can a body’s own stem cells help heal a heart?
Charlotte Observer
If you skin your knee, your body makes new skin. If you donate a portion of your liver, what’s left will grow back to near-normal size. But if you lose a billion heart cells during a heart attack, only a small fraction of those will be replaced. In the

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2014-10-18 NEWS

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Stem Cells Create a Therapeutic Niche
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Stem cell therapy has gained increasing traction in various therapeutic areas, from cancer to diabetes to ocular regeneration. Although the use of embryonic stem cells is controversial, remarkable research in the field of adult induced pluripotent stem
Stem Cells‘ Ability to Improve Vision in Blind People Shown in New StudyHeadlines & Global News
Op-Ed: Do stem cells offer diabetes cure potential?DigitalJournal.com
Stem cell therapy for age-related blindness AMDThe Football Examiner
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2014-10-18 NEWS

OncLive

Stem Cells Create a Therapeutic Niche
OncLive
Stem cell therapy has gained increasing traction in various therapeutic areas, from cancer to diabetes to ocular regeneration. Although the use of embryonic stem cells is controversial, remarkable research in the field of adult induced pluripotent stem
Stem Cells‘ Ability to Improve Vision in Blind People Shown in New StudyHeadlines & Global News
Op-Ed: Do stem cells offer diabetes cure potential?DigitalJournal.com
Stem cell therapy for age-related blindness AMDThe Football Examiner
Oman Tribune
all 6 news articles »
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2014-10-18 NEWS

Top 10 Takeaways On Media-Hyped Harvard Stem Cell Diabetes “Cure” Paper
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A new stem cell paper has just come out in Cell from Harvard in this area. It reports making insulin-producing β cells from human embryonic stem cells (hESC) with the notion of some day using these cells to treat Diabetes. See graphical abstract at