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BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Stem cells ‘created from teeth’
Japanese scientists say they have created human stem cells from tissue taken from the discarded wisdom teeth of a 10-year-old girl.
BBC NEWS | Health | Cell change ‘keeps organs young’
Researchers may have found a way to halt the biological clock which slows down our bodies over the decades.
DailyTech - Conference Examines Man and Machine Merging, How Tech Will Make Human Brain Obsolete
New conference examines what risks super intelligent robots might hold and how man itself may merge with machine to the point where it is no longer recognizable as human
DailyTech - The Quest For Immortality: Self Assembling Tissues
New research yields self-assembling tissues, paves the way for replacement organs
The engineers are aiming to start simple, regrowing commonly failing organs like the pancreas and kidneys. In order to build these more complex structures, scientists have to learn ways to build up from a cellular level.
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“Using these cells could help define the milestones of how cells are reprogrammed and screen for drug-like molecules that replace the potentially cancer-causing viruses used for reprogramming,”
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Advances in regenerative medicine and stem cell research will help wounded soldiers and civilians alike.
The goal of the Army-led organization is to help and heal our wounded fighting men and women, allowing them to return to the productive lives they gave to their country. Some of the current goals, limb regeneration especially, may seem lofty, but such things rarely stand in the way of human determination for long.
Some of the stem cell research done by AFIRM members is already showing promising results. Stephen Badylak, a pathologist at the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh’s announcement last year that a magical “pixie dust,” created from pig bladders, regrew the severed fingertips of two patients left a mark in the medical community. The dust contains molecules that signal growth factors, overriding the typical scar tissue response when a limb is severed. In just six weeks, the fingertips grew back completely, fingernails included. Badylak is presently doing further research into regrowing more complicated extremities such as arms and legs.
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An injection of stem cells has been used to cure mice with a normally fatal nervous system condition.
The therapy which helped repair faulty nerve wiring raises hopes of treatments for children with rare and deadly nervous leukodystrophy disorders.
Source: Gizmodo
The effects of the coming drugs won’t be to extend your feeble old age so you’re old and helpless for longer. Instead, they’ll slow the aging process down completely.
Entire article at Gizmodo: http://gizmodo.com/5012421/fountain-of-youth-drugs-are-coming-and-soon
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RNL Bio says that its new cream, derived from stem cells of human placentas, will encourage faster regeneration of skin cells than its predecessors. Rather than using liquefied placentas, boiled to about 220 degrees (F), RNL Bio uses the active cells of natural placenta that are more efficient in stimulating the skin. While the cream will not contain actual stem cells, human proteins found in the cells will be used.
Source: Dailytech
U.S. Department of Defense announces AFIRM with goal of using stem cell research to treat injured soldiers
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Last week scientists from Yale working with researchers from Asuragen, Inc. announced they found a treatment that has performed well in lab mice for treating lung cancer using micro RNA (miRNA). The miRNA used in the study is called let-7.
Let-7 has been found to be present in reduced amounts in cancerous lung tumors. The low concentrations of this let-7 miRNA are thought to contribute to the development of lung tumors. The work of the researchers has demonstrated that the miRNA inhibits the growth of lung tumors and cancer cells in culture and lab mice.
Source: Dailytech
Stem cells carry high hopes to help treat and possibly cure a myriad of diseases. However, the use of stem cells is a subject of great debate do to the fact that the best source for stem cells for use in this type of research is from human embryos.
Reuters reports that researchers from California-based Novocell Inc. recently used human embryonic stem cells to treat diabetes in mice. The stem cells were implanted into mice and were turned into “nearly” normal insulin-producing cells in the mice.
Source: Dailytech
British scientists reported last week that they successfully created human embryos from the DNA of not two, but three people — two women and a man. Researchers tried to downplay concerns of ethics with genetic modification, citing that the embryos chiefly consist of the DNA from one man and one women, but contain select segments from the other women.
Source: Dailytech
Clone your beloved Snookums for a mere $150k
Cloning is a subject of much debate here in the United States, therefore, we don’t hear of the cloning of animals by American scientists much. However, the process of cloning animals is done in other countries.
A Korean company called RNL Bio is working with the scientists who cloned the first canine named Snuppy. The company is offering to clone deceased pets for the tidy sum of $150,000. A company spokeswoman says that the first customer, Bernann McKunney from California, has already signed up to have her dead pit bull cloned.
Source: BBCNews
UK scientists hope to mend shattered bones and damaged cartilage using a patient’s own stem cells.
They are developing a “bioactive scaffold” to protect the stem cells and encourage them to grow into bone or cartilage when placed in the body.
