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Edmonton family hoping to find stem cell match in Calgary – Toronto Star

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2018-05-25 NEWS

Toronto Star

Edmonton family hoping to find stem cell match in Calgary
Toronto Star
CALGARY—Three Edmonton sisters are trying to bring Calgary’s Asian community together for a donor registration drive in the hopes of saving their brother’s life. Bille Nguyen was in his final year of studying engineering at the Northern Alberta

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2018-05-25 NEWS

UCSF News Services

UCSF Welcomes First In Utero Stem Cell Transplant Baby
UCSF News Services
“It is too early to say how effective the stem cell transplantation will be, but we are encouraged by how well she and her mother have tolerated the treatment,” said Tippi MacKenzie, MD, a pediatric and fetal surgeon at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital

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2018-05-25 NEWS

Digital Trends

CRISPR gene-editing could help feed future generations
Digital Trends
Experts predict that another two billion people will inhabit the Earth by 2050, bringing the global population to 9.7 billion. That’s a lot of mouths to feed. Current food production systems can’t keep up with today’s demand — more than ten percent of