Tag Archives: regenerative medicine

Another First For 3D Printing – Woman Receives Jaw Implant

An 83-year-old woman suffering from a lower jaw infection became the first person to receive a jaw implant manufactured with [...]

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Embryonic Stem Cells Used To Improve Vision Of Blind Patients

Macular degeneration had left Sue Freeman, 78, legally blind. She couldn’t go for a walk by herself, she couldn’t go [...]

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Latest Victory For Regenerative Medicine: Pituitary Grown From Embryonic Stem Cells

Chalk up another part of the body that can be grown from stem cells – at least in mice. Scientists [...]

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Sonia Arrison Brings Longevity To the Masses With Her Book 100+

What would you do with another 75 years on this Earth? Not as a pain wracked wizened elder in a [...]

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Albert Brooks’ 2030 Is a Funny, Age-Obsessed 1984

A good book can make you laugh or cry or think. A great book makes you do all three. 2030, [...]

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Miracle Powder Regrows Fingers, Now Thigh Muscle for Marine

It was only a year ago that ACell’s “miracle powder” was sprinkled on amputated fingers and shown to stimulate the [...]

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In Medical First Doctors Implant Lab Grown Synthetic Trachea Into Patient

Regenerative medicine history was made on June 9th at Stockholm’s Karolinska University Hospital when doctors successfully gave Andemariam Beyene a [...]

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Miraculous New Spray On Skin Technology Treats Burns Without Scars

If you were a nerd like me as a kid, then perhaps you took delight in knowing the answer to [...]

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Scientists Convert Human Skin Cells to Neurons For First Time

As if gathering speed toward some uncertain but reachable destination, scientists have checked yet another item off the grand list [...]

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Japanese Researchers Successfully Grow Sperm in Lab – Eventual Cure for Infertility?

In an amazing technical feat researchers in Japan have accomplished something that has stymied the field for the past half [...]

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Cutting Edge Gene Therapy Successfully Treats Parkinson’s Symptoms

Imagine that for years you’ve lived with a body that is in constant, uncontrollable, motion: your hands tremble, your head [...]

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Researchers Turn Skin Cells Into Beating Heart Cells (video)

It’s faster, more powerful, and user-friendly. No, I’m not talking about the latest generation tablet, I’m talking about the latest [...]

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Wake Forest Lab Creates First Liver Using Human Cells

Got a problem with your liver? Don’t worry, we’ll grow you a new one…eventually. That was the message researchers from [...]

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Miraculous Fingertip Regrowing Powder Strikes Again! (Video)

Deepa Kulkarni lost the tip of pinky finger in an door slamming accident, but don’t worry, it grew back. The [...]

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Lungs Grown on Scaffolds Breathe After Transplantation in Rats

Scientists have used the remains of old lungs to grow new ones capable of being transplanted. Researchers led by Laura [...]

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New Livers Grown on Scaffolds In Rats

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully grown new livers on the remains of old ones. Using a series of [...]

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New Surgical Technique Attempts to Re-grow Breasts After a Mastectomy (video)

Researchers at the Bernard O’Brien Institute of Microsurgery in Melbourne, Australia are pioneering a radical new surgical procedure that would [...]

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Aubrey de Grey Fights Aging With Regenerative Medicine (Video)

Aubrey de Grey looks and speaks like a wizard, but don’t dismiss him. He stands out as one of the [...]

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Miracle Powder Regrows Fingertips? (Video)

I’d be surprised if you hadn’t heard about ACell, or at least about some of their results. Their MatriStem powder [...]

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Extraordinary TEDMED Video About Growing New Organs

“Every thirty seconds a patient dies from diseases that could be treated with tissue replacement.” That was one of the [...]

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Cook Biotech Offers Stunning Tissue Regeneration Capability

The Short: It still seems like science fiction to many, but for more than a decade now mankind has had [...]

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Tengion – The Company That Will Grow You a Custom Organ

Earlier we reported here at the hub that growing tissue and organs is not a science fiction story about the [...]

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Growing New Organs is Not the Future…it is Happening Today!

Growing new organs to replace old or damaged organs is no longer science fiction or something we will do in [...]

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