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Sequenced Worm Genome May Yield Stem Cell Insights – Bioscience Technology

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2015-09-23 NEWS

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Sequenced Worm Genome May Yield Stem Cell Insights
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Source: Shutterstock Hoping to uncover stem cell insights, a team led by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory sequenced the genome of the flatworm Macrostomum lignano, an invertebrate named after the Italian beach town it was discovered near. “The free-living …

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Adults with sickle cell disease cured with stem cell transplants
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UIC physicians have cured 12 adult patients of sickle cell disease using stem cell transplantation from healthy, tissue-matched siblings. The transplants at UI Health were the first performed outside the National Institutes of Health campus in Maryland
In Step Toward Genetic Fix, Scientists Pinpoint ‘Achilles Heel’ Of Sickle Cell WBUR

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