Stem Cells

Researchers make embryonic stem cells from skin

16 May 2013

US researchers have reported a breakthrough in stem cell research, describing how they have turned human skin cells into embryonic stem cells for the first time.

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Grow your own

19 Feb 2013

Imagine this: a car crash victim who suffers serious trauma to the brain avoids neurological damage after the doctors regenerate his lost brain matter using stem cells in the lab.

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3-D printing breakthrough with stem cells

5 Feb 2013

Three-dimensional printing is all the rage: from crafting musical instruments and prosthetic limbs to constructing a manned base on the moon.

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Health bites

5 Feb 2013

Work out now and continue to reap the benefits later. A new study in the United States has found that having a higher fitness level in midlife appears to be associated with a lower risk of...

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A potential cure on a plate

29 Jan 2013

Researchers are a step closer to developing therapies for the deadly condition, known as arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy (ARVD/C).

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Japan researchers grow kidney tissue from stem cells

23 Jan 2013

Researchers in Japan said on Wednesday they have succeeded in growing human kidney tissue from stem cells for the first time in a potential breakthrough for millions with damaged organs who are...

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Opinion

Howard Winn

Ferry companies shouldn't be subsidised while they burn dirty fuel

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Shirley Yam

What were our top officials doing to let HKMEx fail?

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Donor stem cells as safe as patient's own for heart repair

Researchers are reporting that stem cells donated by strangers proved as safe and effective as patients' own cells for helping restore heart tissue, a key advance in repairing hearts damaged by...

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I did my best work 50 years ago, says Nobel winner John Gurdon

British scientist John Gurdon, awarded the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday, admitted he had done the bulk of the cell programming work for which he was honoured half a century ago.

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More Hong Kong parents are paying the high cost of storing umbilical cord blood

The sales pitch of the blood bank is something first-time mother Mrs Leung couldn't ignore.

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Mainland tightens rules on stem cell therapy

A member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences who helped draft the mainland's first regulations on clinical trials of stem cell treatments says the authorities are considering centralising such...

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Stem cells could halt Huntington's

Mainland research on stem cells could point the way to an effective treatment for Huntington's disease, an inherited incurable degenerative brain disorder.

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Dangers stemmed, and not before time

Since free-market reforms 20 years ago that brought an end to free health care, the mainland's medical system has developed a reputation for underperforming and overcharging, prompting Beijing to...

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