‘Passengers’ and the real-life science of deep space travel … – The Sun Daily
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‘Passengers’ and the real-life science of deep space travel …
The Sun Daily FROM Aliens to Interstellar, Hollywood has long used suspended animation to overcome the difficulties of deep space travel, but the once-fanciful sci-fi staple is … NASA’s Journey to Mars builds ground work for missions beyond our Solar SystemClarksville Online |
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Testing stem cells in tiniest hearts to fight birth defect
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette In a bold experiment, doctors injected donated stem cells directly into the healthy side of Josue Salinas Salgado’s little heart, aiming to boost its pumping power as it compensates for what’s missing. It’s one of the first attempts in the U.S. to test … |
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Stem cell ‘mini-brain’ very similar to real brain, study finds
Medical News Today Building a realistic model of the human brain is a crucial part of understanding brain development, as well as neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease. Using human stem cells, researchers have created a 3-D model of the human … |
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Balancing Gene Therapy’s Promise and Price
Lexology (registration) Gene therapy is the therapeutic delivery of polymers into a patient’s cells for the purpose of treating a disease. Polymers interfere with gene expression or correct mutations. There are a number of gene editing technologies. The easiest way to … |
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Stem cells give scientists a new window into the biology of a rare disease
ScienceBlog.com (blog) And their work, published in Cell Stem Cell, provides a great example of how stem–cell techniques can help researchers overcome an otherwise-insurmountable research challenge. “These findings may allow us to develop precision-medicine treatments that … |
ScienceBlog.com (blog) |
Stem cells give scientists a new window into the biology of a rare disease
ScienceBlog.com (blog) And their work, published in Cell Stem Cell, provides a great example of how stem–cell techniques can help researchers overcome an otherwise-insurmountable research challenge. “These findings may allow us to develop precision-medicine treatments that … |