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Lizards can regrow severed tails, making them the closest relative to humans that can regenerate a lost appendage. But in...
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Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are thought to have great potential in the field of regenerative medicine, which has the aim...
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A new approach to repairing peripheral nerves marries the regenerating power of gingiva-derived mesenchymal stem cells with a biological scaffold...
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How do daddy longlegs grow such strange legs? Can genetically engineered bacteria help us detect buried land mines? Why does...
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Neurosurgeon Viviane Tabar is co-leading a trial to inject stem cells into the brains of people with Parkinson’s disease to...
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Ula Jurkunas (front) is an eye surgeon at Massachusetts Eye and Ear in Boston.Credit: John Earle Photography for Massachusetts Eye...
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Credit: Markos Kay The story of stem cells is one of potential. Like a talented young student, or a canvas...
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Aileen AndersonCredit: UCI Stem Cell Research Center The potential to use stem cells to restore a spinal cord damaged by...
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Follicle structures, including oocytes, have been reconstructed from mouse pluripotent stem cells.Credit: T. Yoshino et al. Science 373, eabe0237 (2021)...
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Nature, Published online: 29 September 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-02626-zBiologist Jeanne Loring explains how her work could bring endangered animal species back from...