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Stem cell research aims to put an end to root canals
KBZK Bozeman News
They’re developing a new treatment strategy that could someday help heal a damaged tooth using the patient’s own stem cells. Though the work is still in its early stages, and has not yet been tested in people, the scientists won an award from the Royal …
Dentists are testing a material that would make damaged teeth heal themselvesTech Insider
How Can You Avoid That Trip to the Dentist? Regrow Your TeethHowStuffWorks NOW

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Stem Cell Partnership: Patient Advocates And Scientists At The International Society For Stem Cell Research Convention
Huffington Post
As a watering hole brings animals together, the ISSCR concentrates the world’s top stem cell scientists. From around the world they came, four thousand of them this year, representing almost sixty countries. Interspersed with them were patients and …

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Stem Cell Partnership: Patient Advocates And Scientists At The International Society For Stem Cell Research Convention
Huffington Post
As a watering hole brings animals together, the ISSCR concentrates the world’s top stem cell scientists. From around the world they came, four thousand of them this year, representing almost sixty countries. Interspersed with them were patients and …

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Good News at Fred Hutch
Fred Hutch News Service
Fred Hutch researcher Dr. Colleen Delaney has been working for several years to realize the promise of blood stem cells present in babies’ umbilical cords — generally discarded at childbirth — to save the lives of cancer patients. The stem cells …

Scientists identify ‘cell of origin’ in skin cancer
UPI.com
The green-labelled cells show a basal cell carcinoma in mouse tail epidermis derived from a single mutant stem cell and expanding out of the normal epidermis stained in red, which researchers say is rare finding of a cancer’s “cell of origin.” Photo by …
Where did it all go wrong? Scientists identify ‘cell of origin’ in skin cancersScience Daily

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Stem cell research aims to put an end to root canals
CBS News
Could root canal procedures go by the wayside in the not-too-distant future? Scientists from the University of Nottingham and Harvard University’s Wyss Institute hope so. They’re developing a new treatment strategy that could someday help heal a …

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Shahid Beheshti University to offer summer courses in stem cell culture
Tehran Times
TEHRAN – Pupils interested in learning stem cells culturing techniques can attend summer courses at Tehran’s Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. The first summer school in stem cells will be launched on August 20 for five days sponsored by …