A potentially revolutionary way to help breast cancer survivors uses a woman's own stem cells to repair missing or disfigured breasts. A clinical trial is under way in Southern California.
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Scientists have successfully transplanted a vein made from a 10-year-old girl's own stem cells into her body. It is the first time such an operation has been reported and marks an important step in the practical ability of doctors to use stem cells to grow replacement cells for damaged or diseased tissue.
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Scientists have grown human bone from stem cells in a laboratory. The development opens the way for patients to have broken bones repaired or even replaced with entire new ones grown outside the body from a patient's own cells. The researchers started with stem cells taken from fat tissue. It took around a month to grow them into sections of fully-formed living human bone up to a couple of inches long.
Scientists have grown human bone from stem cells in a laboratory. The development opens the way for patients to have broken bones repaired or even replaced with entire new ones grown outside the body from a patient's own cells.
The researchers started with stem cells taken from fat tissue. It took around a month to grow them into sections of fully-formed living human bone up to a couple of inches long.
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Timothy Brown made medical history when he became the first patient who was essentially cured of HIV, after receiving a stem cell transplant from a person who was genetically resistant to the infection. Now, doctors are hoping to build on Brown’s success by treating HIV patients using cord blood units that have the same HIV-resistant gene.
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Six years after being diagnosed with Hypotonia, or Floppy Baby Syndrome, a Valley girl is showing signs of improvement.
“Thank God we stored the cord’s blood, because I never thought Katie would be in the position to need it but we used half of it and thank God we have it,” said Paul Murphy.
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Ricky Martinez, a 9-year-old Murrieta boy with a rare anemia, will undergo an experimental procedure to transplant his own cord blood Thursday in order to treat his condition.
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