Stem-cell therapy has taken a weight off Keone Kela’s shoulder – Dallas News (blog)
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Stem–cell therapy has taken a weight off Keone Kela’s shoulder
Dallas News (blog) Kela tried stem–cell therapy to help the shoulder. Cells were removed from bone marrow in another part of the body and injected into the shoulder. Bone-marrow cells are used most often for cartilage, ligament and tendon repair. The treatment is being … |
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3 Reasons Celgene’s Investors Should Applaud the Juno Therapeutics Buyout
Motley Fool Specifically, the company is working on an exciting new type of treatment called chimeric antigen receptor T–cell therapy, or CAR-T. This therapy extracts a patient’s T–cells and then reprograms them to be able to identify cancer. Once complete, they … |
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Running the ‘Doomsday Clock’ is a full-time job. Really.
CNN Emerging technology hasn’t caused the clock to move … yet. But the Bulletin keeps its eye on synthetic biology, artificial intelligence and cyberhacking to assess their threat level to humanity. The last time the clock was as close to midnight as it … |
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Researcher using gene therapy to battle hearing loss
The Boston Globe It’s hard to make a chicken deaf. Sounds like a joke, but by sound-blasting chickens and looking at their inner ears, researchers found that chickens can regrow hair cells crucial for hearing. If this same cell regeneration could be replicated in … |