Embryonic Stem Cells

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  In Major Breakthrough, Mice Created With Two Fathers And No Mother Reach Adulthood

  By using embryonic stem cell engineering, the researchers were able to reprogram the imprinted genes, effectively allowing the mice to develop with genetic material from two fathers.

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  New Study Finds Selfish DNA (LINE-1) is Essential for Early Human Embryo Development

  Recent research has shed light on how "selfish DNA," particularly LINE-1 transposons, plays a key role in early human development. Once viewed primarily as harmful, these elements have now been found to be essential for the normal formation and specialisation of cells during the embryo's early stages. Blocking their activity causes developmental di...

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  Stem Cell Therapy Is Effective In Spinal Injuries Treatment: Study

  Stem-cell therapy can play a revolutionary role in the medical treatment of chronic spinal cord injuries, says an article published in 'Clinical and Translational Science' journal.

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  Chinese Scientists Make Sperm From Mouse Stem Cells

  Using embryonic stem cells from mice, Chinese scientists reported today they have created functioning sperm, which was injected into female mice eggs and resulted in normal, fertile offspring.

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  Army Officer Cured Through New Cell-Based Therapy

  A senior army officer, who suffered a severe spinal injury causing partial paralysis, has been cured after successfully undergoing a new stem cell therapy at a hospital here, authorities said today.

• Boost for Stem Cell Therapy in Heart Failure

  Muscle cells grown from human embryonic stem cells boosted damaged monkey hearts in lab experiments, said a study on Wednesday that holds promise for therapies to replace tissue in heart failure patients.

• Scientists create embryonic-type stem cells without embryos

  In experiments that could open a new era in stem cell biology, scientists have found a cheap and easy way to reprogramme mature cells from mice back into an embryonic-like state that allowed them to generate many types of tissue.

• US begins trial of human embryonic stem cells

  US doctors have begun treating the first patient with embryonic stem cells as part of the first human study of the controversial treatment authorised by the government, the Geron Corporation said on Monday.     The patient was enrolled at a spinal cord and brain injury rehabilitation hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, where Geron beg...

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  Protein in stem cells 'linked to cancer'

  Scientists have found that a protein abundant in embryonic stem cells plays a major role in cancer.

• Vitamin C may help treat a failing heart

  In a recent research study, scientists observed that vitamin C prompted the embryonic stem cells of mice to transform into beating heart muscle cells. This current finding is crucial as it could help in the development of new heart failure treatments.

• Important step towards a cure for diabetes

  According to research, embryonic stem (ES) cells were turned into insulin-making tissue in diabetic mice. This could lead to the use of embryonic stem cells to make new insulin-producing islets.

• India to set up guidelines for stem cell research

  India may tighten its existing rules concerning embryonic stem cell research to prevent violation of medical ethics. Stem cell research is the most prominent research occurring in the biomedical community today. Embryonic stem cells are malleable cells that form the human embryo and later develop into the various specialised cells of the body. Stem...