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Read ELP’s Nicholas Staropoli Reddit Science ‘Ask Me Anything’ on Epigenetics: Hype and Health

Nicholas Staropoli | 
Editor’s Note: On Friday, June 2nd from 1pm–3pm EDT, ELP director Nicholas Staropoli hosted a Reddit-science Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) about the hype surrounding ...
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Video: Micro-bubbles and stem cell gene therapy heal bone fractures in pigs

Robert Service | 
It takes more than a cast and a little time to heal many broken bones....Now, researchers have combined ultrasound, stem ...
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Breakthrough for bone marrow transplant recipients: Lab-grown blood stem cells produced for first time

Amy Maxmen | 
After 20 years of trying, scientists have transformed mature cells into primordial blood cells that regenerate themselves and the components ...
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Good with the bad: Cancer and life-saving stem cells stimulated by same gene

Life, it seems, is not without a sense of irony, as a research team led by investigators at the Johns ...
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New transplantation era beckons if we’re ok with growing organs in pigs

David Warmflash | 
Some day, human organs from pigs may fill the organ gap, and the needed science and engineering is advancing rapidly, ...
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Stem cell clinics accused of promising more than they can deliver, and worse

Jesse Hicks | 
It's a nightmare story: Three women pay tens of thousands of dollars to a South Florida clinic for unproven "stem ...
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Parkinson’s stem cell therapy 2.0: New treatment coaxes the brain to repair itself

Knvul Sheikh | 
For the past five decades pharmaceutical drugs like levodopa have been the gold standard for treating Parkinson’s disease. These medications ...
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Umbilical cord stem cells may yield treatment for autism

Michelle Cohan, Sanjay Gupta | 
Gracie [Gregory] was one of 25 children who took part in the first-of-its-kind study at Duke University in Durham, North ...
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Time to amend human embryo research ’14-day rule’?

David Warmflash | 
The rule that cuts off research on human embryos at 14 days gestation is based on an arbitrary time limit ...
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Donor blood shortage solved? Scientists can now mass produce artificial blood

Carolyn Gregoire | 
Every two seconds, someone in the U.S. needs blood, and every year, 4.5 million Americans would die without life-saving blood ...
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Macular degeneration treated by stem cells donated by another person

David Cyranoski | 
On 28 March, a Japanese man in his 60s became the first person to receive cells derived from induced pluripotent ...
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On the horizon: Genes pointing to potential Parkinson’s disease therapies

Benjamin Stecher | 
The ongoing revolution in genetics is playing an increasingly important role in our understanding of the [Parkinson's] disease while also revealing ...
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Human skin, brain and bone cells grown on plants offer path for tissue implants

David Wahlberg | 
To grow clusters of human stem cells that mimic organs in the lab and might be used someday in tissue ...
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Is it time to abandon the 14-day rule limiting human embryo research?

Karen Weintraub | 
[A] group of Harvard University scientists has published a paper arguing that it is time to reconsider the 14-day rule ...
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Unreliable science? Scores of mice studies may be tainted because of standard handling practice

Ian Johnston | 
Scores of scientific studies based on mice are being called into question because their behaviour is affected by the way ...
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Injection with own stem cells alleviates chest pains, angina, study finds

A non-surgical treatment that uses a patient’s own bone marrow stem cells to treat chest pain or angina improved both ...
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How does the body control stem cells? ‘It’s like a game of roulette’

Stem cells are unspecialized cells that can develop into any type of cell in the human body. So far, however, ...
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Woman’s vision improved after first successful stem cell (iPS) treatment

Andy Coghlan | 
A woman in her 80's has become the first person to be successfully treated with induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells ...
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Strategy shift: Stem cell research uses donor cells to cut tumor risks

Tim Hornyak | 
Scientists can create [induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells] from any cell in the body. [But while they]...can be “reprogrammed” to ...
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3 women blinded after receiving stem cell therapy for macular degeneration

Denise Grady | 
Three women suffered severe, permanent eye damage after stem cells were injected into their eyes, in an unproven treatment at ...
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Sickle cell cure? Patient in complete remission following gene therapy

Jamie Wells | 
A number of recent headlines imply a recent case study just published...proves that gene therapy has cured sickle cell disease—a ...
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No egg? No sperm? No problem. First artificial embryo made from stem cells

Kristen Brown | 
Using stem cells in grown-on 3D scaffolding in a laboratory petri dish, scientists have for the first time created an ...
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Body parts from fruit? Skin grafts may use apples to grow human tissue

Dom Galeon | 
Biophysicist Andrew Pelling of University of Ottawa wants to [use apples to determine] the future of biomaterials and human tissue repair.... “What ...
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Injured MLB pitchers opt for unproven stem cell injections over Tommy John surgery

Jeff Passan | 
[Editor's note: Tommy John surgery is a surgical procedure in which the ulnar collateral ligament in the elbow is replaced with ...
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Loud noises kill cells vital for hearing, but gut stem cells may help regrow them

Jeff Karp, Megan Thielking | 
Humans are born with around 15,000 hair cells — think tiny, sound-sensing fibers — in each ear. The cells can’t ...
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From rough sketches to virtual reality: How scientists study, learn about developing embryos

Hyacinth Empinado | 
Armed with a wand and funky spectacles, Beatrice Steinert steps into a world of lush green mounds and bright blue ...
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Disease treatment, tissue regeneration may be bolstered by precise identification of stem cells

Scientists at Rutgers and other universities have created a new way to identify the state and fate of stem cells ...
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