Duke researchers engineer cartilage from pluripotent stem cells

Duke researchers engineer cartilage from pluripotent stem cells

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A way to take adult stem cells and convert them so they have the properties of embryonic stem cells A team of Duke Medicine researchers has engineered cartilage from induced pluripotent stem cells that were [...]

Scientists make old muscles young again in attempt to combat aging

Scientists make old muscles young again in attempt to combat aging

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An international team of scientists have identified for the first time a key factor responsible for declining muscle repair during aging, and discovered how to halt the process in mice with a common drug An [...]

Human Embryonic Stem Cells Restore Gerbil Hearing

Human Embryonic Stem Cells Restore Gerbil Hearing

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A new study offers proof that stem cells can reconnect the inner ear to the brain More than 275 million people have moderate-to-profound hearing loss, and many of those cases are caused by a breach [...]

No More Need for Embryonic Stem Cells

No More Need for Embryonic Stem Cells

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Johns Hopkins scientists have developed a reliable method to turn the clock back on blood cells, restoring them to a primitive stem cell state from which they can then develop into any other type of [...]

Aging heart cells rejuvenated by modified stem cells

Aging heart cells rejuvenated by modified stem cells

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“It is like turning back the clock so these cells can thrive again.” Damaged and aged heart tissue of older heart failure  patients was rejuvenated by stem cells modified by scientists, according to research presented [...]