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Does Stem Cell Research Ban Threaten Efforts to Help Children?

by Tom Henderson, Posted Aug 26th 2010 3:30PM

On March 9, 2009, President Barack Obama signed an order reversing the Bush administration's limits on human embryonic stem cell research. Credit: Darren Hauck, Getty Images
A research project at the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins ...
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Leukemia patient given own cord blood

by Rachel Mosteller, Posted Jan 11th 2007 2:02PM

A 3-year-old girl got a second chance at life after receiving a stem cell transplant of her own banked stem cells for Leukemia. When the girl, who is now six, was born in 1999, her parents saved some of the cells from her umbilical cord in case she ...
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Fully-functioning breast grown from single stem cell

by Karen Walrond, Posted Mar 3rd 2006 2:01PM

The Harvard Gazette is reporting the reseachers have grown a complete fully functioning breast from a single stem cell. While this experiment was performed on a mouse, the researchers believe it won't be long until it can be performed on ...
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