Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD is a common lung illness that makes it very difficult to breathe. Two of the main types of COPD are chronic bronchitis and emphysema. The symptoms of …
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Xenobots are the First Living Self-Healing Robots Made from Stem Cells
Scientists from the University of Vermont and Tufts University’s Allen Discovery Center announced this past week that they have created what they are calling “entirely new life-forms.” These new life …
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Why the Ethical Arguments Against Stem Cell Research Are Focused on the Wrong Issue
While the arguments against embryonic stem cell research are at this point decades old and have at least for the time seemed to lose some of their vigor, there are still those who are deeply against …
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National Eye Institute to Begin Stem Cell Trial for Geographic Atrophy
This month researchers at the National Eye Institute announced that they will begin clinical trials to test the safety of a new stem cell therapy that could be used in order to treat geographic …
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10 Things You Need to Know About Stem Cell Therapies
Even though stem cell research has been around for almost 40 years now, it wasn’t until 2011 that the first stem cell therapy, Hemacord, was approved by the FDA. This means that it hasn’t even been …
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Vermont Lawmakers Plan to Legislate Stem Cell Clinics in 2020
Democratic State Senator Ginny Lyons says that she plans to introduce legislation in the upcoming year in order to address how stem cell clinics in the state of Vermont inform potential patients of …
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