Displaying items by tag: Stem cells
Tuesday, 22 May 2018 15:01
Students promote their ideas as part of NBN Co STEM skills initiative
Students participating in a STEM skills initiative by national broadband network company NBN Co have presented their ideas during an online "Futurist’s Fair" after completing a three-month period of brainstorming.
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Friday, 20 November 2009 21:00
Burned skin healed with human embryonic stem cells
A French study has shown that human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) can be potentially used to produce skin grafts for people with large, serious burns.
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Biology
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Monday, 01 June 2009 17:47
Can we cure diseases? We've leaped forward!
Lead by scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, a team of researchers has successfully shown that, in theory, human diseases can be cured using gene therapy and stem cells. There’s much more work to accomplish, but this research is highly important for eventually curing cancers and other such diseases.
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Tuesday, 10 March 2009 22:57
President Obama lifts stem cell research ban
On March 9, 2009, U.S. president Barack Obama enacted the executive order "removing barriers to responsible scientific research involving human stem cells," which lifts the federal funding ban on embryonic stem cell research.
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Biology
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Thursday, 20 November 2008 20:40
Medical first: Stem cells used for windpipe transplant
European surgeons performed a pioneering first in medicine: The first human trachea (windpipe) transplant that used the patient’s own stem cells to prepare the trachea for transplantation.
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Monday, 08 September 2008 18:54
New artificial heart pump assists and repairs defective hearts
American inventors and faculty at the University of Utah have developed an artificial heart pump that can assist the pumping of a person’s natural heart, but also helps to repair it by taking cardiac stem cells from the blood stream and injecting them into the heart.
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Health
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