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Stem Cells In Fat Can Help Offer Pets Relief
CBS Local
“If we think we’re going to need another procedure in a couple of years, we do stem cell banking,” Darah Johnson said. “That way we don’t have to go through the surgery all over again. We can just thaw the frozen cells and send them out and have …

Stem Cells In Fat Can Help Offer Pets Relief « CBS Denver
CBS Local
An animal hospital is helping pets struggling with painful arthritis by using a “pet stem cell” procedure.

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Stem Cell Transplant Fails to Prevent Relapses in ‘Double-Hit’ Lymphoma
MedPage Today
“Double-hit” lymphoma patients — those with B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma marked by mutations in MYC and BCL2/6 genes — who achieved first complete remission with induction therapy didn’t benefit from autologous stem–cell transplantation, according to …

‘Stem Cell Educator Therapy’ Helps Diabetics
Newsmax
For the treatment, researchers take blood from a person with diabetes and separate out the immune system cells (lymphocytes). They briefly expose those cells to stem cells from umbilical cord blood from an unrelated infant. Then they return the …

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A Living Hard Drive: This GIF Was Stored in the DNA of Bacteria
Singularity Hub
The scientists from Harvard University used the CRISPR genome-editing tool to store a picture of a hand and an animation of a running horse adapted from Eadweard Muybridge’s 1878 photographic study Human and Animal Locomotion in the genome of E.
Scientists just used CRISPR to encode a GIF into the DNA of a virusYahoo News
Scientists place a GIF image inside a living organism’s DNADigital Journal

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Snip, snip, cure—correcting defects in the genetic blueprint – Phys.org
Phys.Org
Gene editing using ‘molecular scissors’ that snip out and replace faulty DNA could provide an almost unimaginable future for some patients: a complete cure.

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Snip, snip, cure—correcting defects in the genetic blueprint – Phys.org
Phys.Org
Gene editing using ‘molecular scissors’ that snip out and replace faulty DNA could provide an almost unimaginable future for some patients: a complete cure.

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