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Tag Archives: regenerative medicine
Telomerase Gene Therapy Extends Lives Of Mice By Up To 24 Percent
Scientists are doing their best to give us the gift of immortality. The latest in the fight against ever dying [...]
Posted in Genetics, Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged chromosome, dna, gene therapy, lifespan, longevity, maría blasco, medicine, mice, regenerative medicine, telomerase
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Toothless No More – Researchers Using Stem Cells to Grow New Teeth
It may be hard to remember what it was like to lose a tooth as a child, but many adults [...]
Same Kidney Transplanted Twice
Twenty-seven-year-old Ray Fearing suffered from focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), a common type of kidney disease, and needed a new kidney. [...]
Regenokine: The Unproven Treatment That Professional Athletes Are Flying To Germany For
Kobe Bryant did it. Alex Rodriguez did it. Golfer Fred Couples did it, even the late Pope John Paul II [...]
Drug To Diagnose Alzheimer’s Disease Receives FDA Approval
Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lily just got FDA approval on a chemical that would enable clinicians to detect a biological marker [...]
In Utero Surgery – More Common Today, But No Less Miraculous
You might recall a particular photograph that caused quite a stir back in 1999. It was the photograph of Samuel [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged fetus, hand of hope, in utero surgery, medicine, myelomeningocele, regenerative medicine, spina bifida
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Gene Therapy For Blind Again A Success, More Patients To Be Treated
In 2009, 12 people participated in a clinical trial through which they received an experimental gene therapy for an inherited [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged 3d printing, bone implant, layerwise, longevity, medicine, regenerative medicine
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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 [...]
Posted in Genetics, Longevity And Health, Singularity, Stem Cells
Tagged brain, dna, genes, medicine, pituitary, regenerative medicine, RIKEN, yoshiki sasai
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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 [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health, Video Central
Tagged 100, 100 plus, life extension, longevity, regenerative medicine, Sonia Arrison
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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, [...]
Posted in Art, Longevity And Health, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged 2030, Albert Brooks, futurism, predictions, regenerative medicine
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health
Tagged regenerative medicine, Stanford, Stem Cells, transdifferentiation, Wernig
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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 [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health
Tagged cancer, genes, Genetics, medicine, regenerative medicine, Stem Cells
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Stem Cells
Tagged genes, Genetics, medicine, regenerative medicine, Stem Cells
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health
Tagged ACell, CNN, Deepa Kulkarni, ECM, extracellular matrix, fingertips, Matristem, pinky finger, regenerative medicine
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health
Tagged Basak Uygun, decellularization, liver, MGH, recellularization, regenerative medicine
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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 [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health, Stem Cells
Tagged Bernard o'Brien, breast regrowth, mastectomy, neopec, regenerative medicine
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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 [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health
Tagged Aubrey De Grey, immortality wizard, regenerative medicine, SENS Foundation, TEDMED
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