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| New method to multiply stem cells may help bone marrow transplants |
| 20 April 2009 - by Dr Rebecca Robey |
| Canadian scientists have found a new way to prompt haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) from the bone marrow of mice to multiply, in order to provide a large quantity of HSCs from a small sample of bone marrow. They hope that this technique, if it also works in...[Read More] |
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| Sperm frozen for 22 years creates healthy baby girl |
| 20 April 2009 - by Sarah Guy |
| A man who had his sperm frozen whilst undergoing treatment for leukaemia as a teenager, has, at 38, become the father of a healthy baby girl. Christopher Biblis from Charlotte, North Carolina, was 16 when he underwent radiotherapy treatment which would have left him sterile had his...[Read More] |
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| 'Are we there yet?' ask geneticists of disease prediction |
| 20 April 2009 - by Adam Fletcher |
| One of the most innovative developments to arise from the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003, and the International HapMap Project in 2005 has been the exploration of how and why changes in DNA can predispose individuals to disease. A popular method for identifying causative...[Read More] |
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| New stem cell research may help fertility treatments |
| 20 April 2009 - by Dr Charlotte Maden |
| New work in stem cell research has challenged the long-standing belief that women are born with all the eggs they will ever need. The results were published in the journal Nature Stem Cell, although the study was received with caution. The scientists at Shanghai Jiao Tong University...[Read More] |
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| Stem cells help improve insulin production in diabetes patients |
| 20 April 2009 - by Rose Palmer |
| A pioneering stem cell transplant has enabled patients with Type One diabetes to go without insulin injections for up to four years. Researchers from Northwestern University in the US and the Regional Blood Centre in Brazil treated a total of 23 patients and found that the majority...[Read More] |
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| Scientists identify common genetic variant that increases risk of stroke |
| 20 April 2009 - by Rosie Beauchamp |
| A study by an international research team, published a study this week in The New England Journal of Medicine, identifies for the first time a genetic variant that leads to an increased chance of stroke. Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the US and...[Read More] |
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| Gene linked to hearing loss discovered |
| 20 April 2009 - by Will Fletcher |
| A link has been found between progressive hearing loss and a microRNA gene - the first time this type of gene has been implicated in any inherited disorder. The findings are the result of convergent research by scientists from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Hinxton, England, and...[Read More] |
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| Stem cell 'eye patch' for blindness could become commonplace |
| 20 April 2009 - by Ailsa Stevens |
| Clinicians from the Institute of Ophthalmology at University College London and Moorfields eye hospital have predicted that an experimental new therapy for treating Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of blindness in the developed world, may become routinely available within the next six to seven years...[Read More] |
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