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The future is here - scientists grow human liver 04 July 2013
It may not be long before patients can order organs off the shelves. Scientists say it may be another 10 years but progress is rapid. Recently, a group of researchers in London succeeded in creating a liver in the lab...
Keywords: Organ transplant, Liver regeneration, regenerative medicine, Organ transplant
Read MoreJapanese scientists working towards finding cure for baldness 26 April 2012
Good news is here for all bald people who have been fed up undergoing several painful sittings for seeing hair on their heads. Scientists in Japan who have been constantly finding out alternatives for making hair grow in a bald...
Keywords: mouse, Japan, hair follicles, rats
Read MoreChennai IIT's endeavor to 'save life' with artificial blood 12 January 2013
IIT Madras has been an epitome of innovation and research, but this time they have kept many awestruck with their production of 'artificial blood' from stem cells. A team scientists have also successfully tested the oxygen carrying capacity of the...
Keywords: blood from stem cells, blood from stem cells, 12 January, IIT-M endeavor to 'save life' with artificial blood
Read MoreScientists produced human heart tissue 14 August 2013
Scientists announced on Tuesday that they had used stem cells to grow human heart tissue that contracted spontaneously in a petri dish - marking advancement in the quest to manufacture transplant organs. Furthermore, a team from the University of Pittsburgh,...
Keywords: human skin cells, human skin cells, Scientists produced human heart tissue, Pennsylvania
Read MoreZebrafish creating medical wonder! 01 February 2013
Medical research have seen that Zebrafish have been used to make several transgenic models of cancer, including melanoma, leukemia, pancreatic cancer and hepatocellular carcinoma. Even in cardiovascular research, the zebrafish has been used to model blood clotting, blood vessel development,...
Keywords: medical research on zebrafish, human eyesight, zebrafish, human retinas
Read MoreEat away your inflammation 16 February 2012
How often do you suffer from pain? If the sales of pain medication in this country are anything to go by, it’s quite often. As much as those little white (or blue) pills help you get through that hockey game,...
Keywords: Eat away, under-lying problem, immune system cells, under-lying problem
Read MoreHuman bones from fat Scientific importance 11 June 2012
Scientists abroad have succesfully tried to grow human bones from stem cells in fat and have implanted a one inch bone in mice. The bone had merged into the body and the animal seems to have been healthy. Succesful trails...
Keywords: human bones, liposuctioned fat, human fat, Bonus bio group
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