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Stem Cells Spawn First Drug-Free Windpipe Transplant

Stem Cells Spawn First Drug-Free Windpipe Transplant

By Michelle Fay Cortez Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) — Doctors operating on a 30-year-old Colombian woman restored her ability to breathe freely with the world’s first transplanted windpipe… Read more »

Stem cell companies awaiting sea change

Stem cell companies awaiting sea change

By David Morrill Staff writer, Insidebayarea.com A cure for diabetes? New organs? Spinal injury repair? For more than a decade Bay Area scientists and companies have thrown… Read more »

UW-Madison scientists guide human skin cells to embryonic state

UW-Madison scientists guide human skin cells to embryonic state

University of Wisconsin-Madison News Nov. 20, 2007 In a paper to be published Nov. 22 in the online edition of the journal Science, a team of University… Read more »

Skin Cells Converted to Stem Cells

Skin Cells Converted to Stem Cells

From Washington Post.com August 22, 2005 Scientists’ Work Could Clear Moral Hurdle to Embryonic Research Scientists for the first time have turned ordinary skin cells into what… Read more »

New stem cell lines available

New stem cell lines available

From USAToday.com 3/3/2004 Researchers chafing under President Bush’s restrictions on human embryonic stem-cell research will have free access to 17 new cell lines provided by a team… Read more »

The First Human Cloned Embryo

The First Human Cloned Embryo

Fom ScientificAmrican.com November 24, 2001 Cloned early-stage human embryos and human embryos generated only from eggs, in a process called parthenogenesis now put therapeutic cloning within reach.