Archive for the 'Stem Cells' Category

20th Nov 2008

Doctors Grow Windpipe from Stem Cells | Drudge Retort

For the record, I am in favor of embryonic stem cell research, but there is potentially a better option in the works that I think will overshadow embryonic stem cells once we’ve perfected the technique.

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20th Nov 2008

Stem Cell Research Blog » Will federal ban on embryonic stem cell

Also the ever going war between stem cell researchers and churches are now centering Barrack Obama. His support for the embryonic stem cell research could reignite an emotional national debate over the promise.

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19th Nov 2008

Stem cells restore hearing, vision in animals (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

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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19th Nov 2008

Stem cells to be used in heart trial (UPI)

SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 18 (UPI) — U.S. researchers say they are seeking people for a trial to test the safety of using patients’ own stem cells to repair their damaged hearts.

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19th Nov 2008

Stem cells used in windpipe transplant (News Interactive)

THE pioneering transplant of a windpipe stripped of its cells and seeded with recipient stem cells has given a 30-year old Colombian woman a new lease on life.

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19th Nov 2008

Stem cells used in animal ailments (TVNZ)

Stem cells from tiny embryos can be used to restore lost hearing and vision in animals, researchers said in what they believe is a first step toward helping people.

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19th Nov 2008

Doctors transplant windpipe with stem cells (Boston Globe)

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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19th Nov 2008

Doctors transplant windpipe with stem cells (AP via Yahoo! Singapore News)

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.

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19th Nov 2008

Airway Transplant Aided by Stem Cells a Medical First (Health Scout)

Woman gets historic procedure in which her stem cells were combined with donated organ tissue to replace diseased organ, scientists report.

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19th Nov 2008

Doctors transplant windpipe with stem cells (AP via Yahoo! News)

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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