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Towards a Universal Cancer Drug
Mar 1, 2010
"In the dominoes that make up human cells, researchers have traced another step of the process that stops cells from becoming cancerous."
Communicating with Coma Patients
Feb 5, 2010
"Brain scans enable a patient in a vegetative state to answer yes or no questions"
Turning Skin Cells into Stem Cells
Dec 25, 2009
The addition of ascorbic acid -- Vitamin C -- greatly enhances the harvest of stem cells from a process that produces those cells from ordinary skin cells. Stem cells are said to be "pluripotent" because they can transform themselves into different kinds of cells in various organs.
Stem Cell Treatment Repairs Cornea
Dec 22, 2009
A man with a damaged cornea was treated with stem cells from his healthy eye to repair the cornea and restore sight in the damaged eye