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Scientists created living robots out of stem cells
Scientists have created a new life form that's something between a frog and a robot. Using stem cells scraped from frog embryos, researchers from the University of Vermont (UVM) and Tufts University assembled "xenobots." The millimeter-wide blobs act...
Spay and neuter your pets — and then bank their stem cells
Being man's best friend has a number of perks, one of which is that dogs get access to all the latest medical science, including, as it turns out, stem cell therapy. A company called Gallant is launching a new bank for canines nationwide (not called...
Spay and neuter your pets — and then bank their stem cells
Being man's best friend has a number of perks, one of which is that dogs get access to all the latest medical science, including, as it turns out, stem cell therapy. A company called Gallant is launching a new bank for canines nationwide (not called...
Chicago biotech company 3D prints a mini human heart
The Chicago-based biotech company BIOLIFE4D announced today that it has successfully 3D-bioprinted a mini human heart. The tiny heart has the same structure as a full-sized heart, and the company says it's an important milestone in the push to create...
Stem cell transplant offers hope for an HIV cure
There appears to be more than one promising sign in the quest for an HIV cure. Researchers have given a London patient a bone marrow stem cell transplant that has left him HIV-free for the past 18 months. As the donor has a very rare genetic mutation...
Scientists use CRISPR to make stem cells invisible to immune system
Scientists at the University of California San Francisco have developed a new method to minimize the likelihood that a person's body will reject stem cells during a transplant. Using the CRISPR gene editing tools, the scientists managed to create ste...
US Issues Patent For A Fraudulent Human Embryonic Stem Cell Method
At first I thought the Patent Office was having a little fun. Was it an April Fools Day joke? No, it’s only February – and the U.S. Patent Office never kids around. What did they do? They ...
Functional Human Liver Tissue Successfully Grown from Stem Cells
Stem cells were employed in an effort to create human liver tissue. The end products were much smaller than full-fledged human livers. Nevertheless, they functioned perfectly well when transplanted...
The Creation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells by Cloning
Science makes the impossible possible. Researchers have employed the technique that led to the creation of Dolly the sheep to create embryonic stem cells. These in turn can be used to make any organs...
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