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Searching for Parkinson’s game changer: No cure in sight but stem cells, other advances hold promise

Sam Moxon | 
A flurry of recent advances offer the promise of new avenues for treating patients with Parkinson’s disease, one of our ...
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Searching for the ‘big break’ that could turn stem cells into a weapon against dementia

Sam Moxon | 
Recent developments in stem cell research suggest a radical shift in the way we diagnose and treat dementia ...
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‘Stemness’ and the downside of limiting our definition of stem cells

Jordana Cepelewicz | 
As more sophisticated technology has revealed just how plastic and heterogeneous cell populations can be, some researchers have transitioned from ...
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Calls for a halt to heart stem cell trial based on controversial research

Carolyn Johnson | 
Days after Harvard Medical School said it found extensive falsified or fabricated data from the laboratory of a prominent heart researcher, ...
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Why racial diversity in genetics studies matters in patient care

Elizabeth Newbern | 
DNA is approximately 99.5 percent similar across all humans. But there are key differences in that remaining half percent. Those ...
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