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Scientists Convert Skin to Embryonic Stem Cells
Bypassing the ethical debate about the use of fertilized embryos to harvest stem cells, scientists have successfully reprogrammed human skin cells to become embryonic stem cells capable of transforming...
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Sacred Lotus Holds Answers to Aging
A team of scientists reports having sequenced and annotated the genome of the “sacred lotus,” which is believed to hold secrets about aging successfully. The sacred lotus was domesticated in Asia about...
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Cinnamon Can Ward Off Alzheimer’s Symptoms
The common baking spice might hold the key to delaying the onset of--or warding off--the effects of Alzheimer's disease.(Read more at the MFNE website)
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Peppers and Parkinson’s
Eating peppers—which are in the same botanical family as tobacco—may reduce the risk of Parkinson’s disease, according to University of Washington scientists. The investigation of dietary sources of...
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Artificial Blood Vessels Grown from Stem Cells
Artificial blood vessels that can survive in the body for up to nine months have been created from stem cells by scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital. Being able to repair or grow new blood...
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Vitamin C Boosts Anti-Aging Functions
Vitamin C affects whether genes are switched on or off inside mouse stem cells, and may thereby play a previously unknown and fundamental role in helping to guide normal development in mice, humans and...
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Stem Cells Can Lead to Treatments for Blood Disorders
In new research, scientists at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia reprogrammed skin cells from patients with rare blood disorders into induced pluripotent stem cells (IPSCs), highlighting the...
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Another Reason to Get Some ZZZZZs
In a first-of-its-kind clinical trial, physician-scientists at University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center in Cleveland found that sleep quality impacts skin function and aging. The recently...
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Harvesting Stem Cells from…Urine?
Could harvesting stem cells for therapy one day be as simple as asking patients for a urine sample? Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine and...
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Stem Cell Gene Therapy for Neurological Disorders
Scientists from The University of Manchester have used stem cell gene therapy to treat a fatal genetic brain disease in mice for the first time. The method was used to treat Sanfilippo—a fatal...
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