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Artificial Bone Marrow Tissue Mimics Stem Cells' Natural Habitat
Here's a quick biology lesson. Each drop of blood in your body starts in the same place: your bone marrow, the tissue at the center of your larger bones. If you're sick with a disease like leukemia,...
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Scientists Just Took A "Spectacular Step" Towards Lab-Grown Human Egg Cells
SEX CELLS Makings babies could soon get a lot less sexy. A team of Japanese researchers is now closer than any other scientists have come to creating lab-grown human egg cells. That means the day when...
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A Stem Cell Transplant Let a Wheelchair-Bound Man Dance Again
Stand Up Guy For 10 years, Roy Palmer had no feeling in his lower extremities. Two days after receiving a stem cell transplant, he cried tears of joy because he could feel a cramp in his leg. The...
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Neural Stem Cells Grown From Blood Could Revolutionize Medicine
Stem Fatale Doctors could soon be able to grow new brain cells, which would help treat people with strokes or other neurological conditions, using just a small blood sample. Scientists from Heidelberg...
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3D Printed Implants and Stem Cells Helped Paralyzed Rats Walk Again
One Small Step Lab rats paralyzed from spinal cord injuries regained the ability to walk after scientists gave them 3D-printed implants loaded up with stem cells. The implants were biocompatible...
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Vibrating Astronauts' Legs Could Keep Their Bones Strong
In Your Bones When astronauts are in space, the reduced gravity means their bones don't have to carry as heavy of a load as they do on Earth. This can lead to a loss of bone density that can affect the...
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The Future of Protein: Here's How Lab-Grown Meat is Transforming Our Future
Finding Fault with Factory Farms The technology behind lab-cultured meat products is rapidly advancing. It's possible that we will start seeing these kinds of products being sold right alongside their...
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Baldness Could Soon Be Cured for Real — if You're Rich
Diabolical Follicle A cure for baldness may be on the horizon — and all it takes is an extravagant combination of cloned stem cells and 3D-printed follicle molds. Scientists have been trying to clone...
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Scientists Grew Living Mouse Embryos Using Only Stem Cells
For the first time, scientists grew an embryo in a lab using only stem cells — no sperm or eggs required. The mouse embryos weren't perfect, according to OneZero, and none of them developed into...
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Something Strange Happened to Human Heart Cells in Space
Researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine found that heart muscle cells derived from stem cells adapted to microgravity by quickly altering the expression of thousands of genes....
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Scientists Build "First Living Robots" From Frog Stem Cells
A team of researchers have built what they claim to be the first living robots. The "xenobots," they say, can move, pick up objects, and even heal themselves after being cut. The team is hoping the...
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Scientists Grow Mini Human Livers, Transplant Them Into Rats
In a development that could someday help patients on long organ donor waitlists, doctors have managed to grow miniature human livers out of skin cells. After triggering the skin cells to turn into stem...
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Scientists Reprogram Fat Cells to Repair Injuries
Scientists have developed a first-of-its-kind human stem cell that seems to be capable of repairing and healing damage anywhere in the body. These so-called "smart" stem cells start off as human fat...
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These Lab-Grown Follicles Could Offer New Treatment for Baldness
A team of scientists in Japan used stem cells to engineer hair follicles that can actually grow back when they inevitably fall out. One of the key components of natural hair growth is that it's...
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New Regulations Let Scientists Keep Lab-Grown Human Embryos Alive for Longer
An international organization of biomedical researchers just updated their recommendations for controversial human embryo research, loosening up restrictions on the kinds of studies scientists can...
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Scientist Predicts Humans Will Be Able to Regrow Limbs "Within Our Lifetime"
Frogs have regrown limbs from an experimental drug cocktail — and in the near-ish future, humans may be able to do so, too. "The biomedical engineering aspect is actually making these new advancements...
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Scientists Say They've Figured Out How to Grow New Bone Using Sound Waves
Scientists from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia have managed to regrow bone by firing high-frequency sound waves at stem cells, a potential breakthrough in regenerative...
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The World's First-Ever "Synthetic Embryo" Is Already Causing Controversy
Scientists have created the world's first lab-grown "synthetic embryo," a groundbreaking moment in science that has reignited a fierce ethical debate. Led by molecular geneticist Joseph Hanna, a team...
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Scientists Create Synthetic Mouse Embryos Without Sperm or Eggs
A team of scientists in the UK have created "synthetic" mouse embryos without egg or sperm cells. It's a breakthrough in the field of genetic engineering that could potentially lay the groundwork for...
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Biotech Company Says It's Implanted Dopamine-Making Cells in Patients' Brains
A California-based biotech company says it's successfully implanted lab-made neurons in Parkinson's patients' brains to stimulate a dopamine response — and if it works as intended, it could be a...
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