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Cloned tissue cure Parkinson's Mice
... mice with the symptoms of Parkinson's Disease, using their own cells. Writing in Nature Medicine, Sloan-Kettering ... into mouse eggs that had previously been emptied of their own DNA. When the mouse embryonic clones began to develop the ... of the affected mice. One group of animals got their own genetically compatible cells, whilst a second group of ...
Grow-your-own joint replacements
Rabbits can grow their own replacement joints using their stem cells, according to ... The rabbits had re-grown functioning joints, using their own stem cells. Though stem cells are increasingly being seen ... prior to patient applications." Rabbits can grow their own replacement joints using their own stem cells, according ...
Liver grown from stem cells
... steps down a road that could see doctors using a person's own cells to grow a replacement liver. Yokohama City ... whether their replacement livers could replace an animal's own organ. By implanting their human liver replacement tissue ... mice genetically programmed to develop failure of their own livers, the Japanese team were able to show survival ...
Immune system reset stops MS
... received an infusion of stem cells collected from their own bone marrow. These samples had been collected previously ... powerful ablative chemotherapy designed to destroy their own bone marrow and all of their existing immune cells. This ...
HIV treats genetic disease
... does HIV come in? When HIV infects a cell it inserts its own genetic material into the host's DNA. From there, the ... What the TIGET team have done is to empty the virus of its own genetic material and replace it with a healthy copy of ...
Homegrown portal vein replacement
... replacement tissue-engineered vein grown from a patient's own stem cells has been successfully transplanted into a ...
Replacing Faulty Mitochondria
... into an egg that has healthy mitochondria, but has had its own genomic DNA removed. These eggs were then fertilized by ...
Rapid, in-vitro hair cells
... the native cells. "Chicks and fish can regenerate their own hair cells," cautions Costa, "but we are not sure if the ...