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LONDON (AP) -- Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. "This technique has great promise," said Dr. Eric Genden, who did a similar transplant in 2005 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. That operation used both donor and recipient tissue. Only a handful of windpipe, or trachea, transplants have ever been done....
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Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs.
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European doctors give woman a new windpipe with tissue from her own stem cells.
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A Colombian woman has received the world's first tailor-made transplanted trachea, grown by seeding a donor organ with her own stem cells to prevent her body rejecting it, an international research team reported on Wednesday.
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The transplant of a human windpipe grown from stem cells is a surgical breakthrough of almost limitless potential.
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The world's first windpipe transplantation using stem cells performed by European doctors in Barcelona, Spain has been successful, heralding a new era of stem cell research. The results of this medical breakthrough were published in the online version of the medical journal The Lancet on Wednesday.
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Researchers trying to find ways to transform ordinary skin cells into powerful stem cells said on Sunday they found a shortcut by "sprinkling" a chemical onto the cells.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers have discovered stem cells in the prostates of mice and grown complete prostates from them, a big step toward regenerating organs from a patient's own cells.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk A/S is turning to stem cells in the hunt for a cure for diabetes.
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UNIVERSITY College Cork (UCC) could become the first academic institution in the country to introduce a policy that would allow the use of embryonic stem cells for research purposes.
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UCC has become the first university in the country to officially sanction the controversial use of embryonic stem cells for research.
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Stem cells taken from human embryos have been used by Japanese scientists to create functioning brain tissue. A world-first that could lead to the better treatment of strokes or degenerative diseases like Alzheimer's.
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US president-elect Barack Obama wants to reverse current presidential executive orders on stem cell research and oil drilling, two of the hallmarks of the Bush administration. Obama and Bush are due to meet today.
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The next administration may lift a 14-year ban on embryonic stem cell research.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Stem cells from tiny embryos can be used to restore lost hearing and vision in animals, researchers said Tuesday in what they believe is a first step toward helping people.
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A young mother in Spain was given a trachea transplant grown using her body's own stem cells. It's less likely to be rejected by her body, reports Sky News' Thomas Moore.
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In a major medical first, doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs.
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Physicians at four European universities have completed what they say is the first successful transplant of a human windpipe using a patient's own stem cells to fashion an organ and prevent its rejection by her immune system.
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An information session in Richmond, B.C., on Sunday aimed to increase the number of Chinese people registered to donate stem cells.
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Research from the University of New South Wales in Australia indicated that stem cells from the nose may help spinal injury victims walk again, London’s Daily Mail reported.
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The Cleveland Clinic says the operation took 22 hours to complete. "One of the most complex surgeries performed" remarked a doctor today, as the center told the world about the face transplant conducted a few weeks ago. We have little...
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A woman regularly fainted after eating sandwiches or drinking pop, British doctors say in a case report of the unusual case involving stimulation of a cranial nerve.
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Scientists have said they may be narrowing down the hunt for the cells which are the source of bowel cancer.
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As well as their potential for creating effective therapies for debilitating diseases, embryonic stem cells could open the door to more effective pharmaceutical drug testing, according to a leading British stem cell researcher.
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One of the big worries about one day using stem cells to grow new organs and other tissues for curing disease is that these little regenerative powerhouses could give rise to tumours and end up doing more harm than good.
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Doctors have long struggled to differentiate cancerous stem cells from healthy ones, but Canadian researchers now say they know how to tell the two apart to hopefully one day better identify how to kill only the dangerous ones.
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Finance officials from the G7 countries have announced a series of measures to try to slow the effects of a financial crisis that is crippling markets around the globe.
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WEST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- West Hartford police said they charged a 51-year-old woman with assault, reckless endangerment and tampering with evidence after she allegedly served a marijuana-tainted ginger cake to her real estate agent....
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MIDDLETOWN, Del. (AP) -- When 72-year-old Gladys Dressner first saw two snakes last in her new apartment last month, she froze. Days later, when an eight-inch snake crawled across her bed, she screamed. Finally, after stepping on a baby black rat snake, she moved....
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A Pennsylvania woman faces a bizarre home invasion from a 6-pound chunk of ice.
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A 40-year-old hotel housekeeper was robbed and fatally stabbed in Northwest Washington yesterday morning as she waited for a Metrobus to take her to work, according to police and the victim's sister.
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Finance officials from the world’s top economic powers endorsed a sweeping plan Friday to stem the worst financial crisis in more than a half-century.
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The world's top finance officials have pledged to take all actions needed to stem the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression.
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