1. Stem cell research
A stem cell is a "generic" cell that can make exact copies of itself indefinitely. In addition, a stem cell has the ability to produce specialized cells for various tissues in the body -- such as heart muscle, brain tissue...
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2. Document Index: Mastering Stem Cells
Mastering Stem Cells; Goodell Examines Stem Cells; Answer: No; Unlimited Potential; Specialized Cells; Addressing a Challenge; Mastering HSC Production; Student Researcher: Solving Pieces of the HSC Puzzle; Making...
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3. 9. Can Stem Cells Repair a Damaged Heart? [Stem Cell Information]
Heart attacks and congestive heart failure remain among the Nation's most prominent health challenges despite many breakthroughs in cardiovascular medicine. In fact, despite successful approaches to prevent or limit cardiovascular disease, the res...
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5. Post-Heart Attack Adult Stem Cell Therapy
Heart experts used to think cardiac tissue damaged after a heart attack could not be repaired. That assumption is changing as more is learned about the properties of certain stem cells to grow or regenerate tissue, including
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6. Heart Stem Cells Move Closer to Human Treatments
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers are moving ahead -- although sometimes ploddingly -- toward the goal of using stem cell therapies to rescue people with cardiovascular disease, the leading killer of men and women in the United St...
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7. Stem cells show potential in heart: 6/2
MUSC cardiovascular biologists Rick Visconti, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Anatomy assistant professor, and Christopher Drake, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Anatomy professor, published a stem cell breakthrough in a recent issue of Circulation Research.
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8. 2009.10.15 -- Stem Cells Grow Heart Tissue in Lab
THURSDAY, Oct. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers report a major step toward the goal of literally rebuilding a broken heart -- creating a strip of working heart muscle in the laboratory by using a newly identified human cardiac master stem cell.
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9. Stem cells found to heal heart - smh.com.au
The first evidence that stem cells are capable of repairing damaged human hearts has been reported by researchers.
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10. Heart1 Forums - stem cell and heart damage
I would like to know if anyone viewed a documentary recently on television,wherein a teenage boy whose heart was shot with a nail gun and damage done to 1/3 or more of his heart, received stem cells and his heart...
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