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Drugs unlock the body's own stem cell cabinet
The discovery of drug regimes that liberate specific types of stem cells from the bone marrow could allow patients to produce their own healing stem cells
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Race is on to use embryonic stem cells in humans
THIS WEEK: 18:00 25 November 2009 | 16 comments
After years of wrangling, several therapies using human embryonic stem cells are nearly ready to be tried in people. Which will be first?
Breath of fresh air transforms stem cells
14:32 09 November 2009 | 4 comments
Specialised lung tissue has been created by exposing stem cells to the open air
Souped-up stem cells rescue damaged limbs
11:16 07 October 2009 | 8 comments
The healing properties of stem cells have been enhanced by giving them a gene that summons extra blood vessels to newly formed tissue
Stem cell hope for childhood motor neuron disease
22:00 22 September 2009 | 4 comments
Treated mice recovered mobility and lived longer
Snort stem cells to get them to brain
THIS WEEK: 14:53 10 September 2009 | 9 comments
Stem cells could be inhaled to treat neurological conditions
China cracks down on stem cell tourism
00:01 04 September 2009 | 12 comments
New ethical guidelines reinforce rules designed to punish clinics that peddle bogus treatments
Doug Melton: Finding a cure for diabetes
14:58 03 September 2009 | 18 comments
Creating insulin-producing cells from skin cells is just the first step towards a cure for the disease, says Harvard Stem Cell Institute's co-director
One-gene method makes safer human stem cells
17:16 28 August 2009 | 10 comments
Human nerve cells have been reset to an embryo-like state using just one gene, reducing the risk that they will become cancerous
Stem cell spinal injury trial put on hold
15:25 24 August 2009 | 16 comments
Plans to give human embryonic stem cells their first clinical test have hit yet another roadblock
Bad spell for stem cells
UPFRONT: 10:19 06 August 2009 | 16 comments
Untested treatments, withdrawn research papers and questions over irregularities in current research raise the alarm
BRIEFING
Anatomy of a stem cell controversy
Following a New Scientist investigation, a stem cell researcher has been found guilty of falsifying data. We take a look at the background to the story and ask: where does the affair leave stem cell science?
INTERVIEW
Christopher Reeve's good fight
After nearly eight years struggling against the quadriplegia caused by a riding accident, actor Christopher Reeve wants to shake up medical research
SURGERY
Woman receives windpipe built from her stem cells
A Colombian woman has become the world's first recipient of a section of windpipe constructed from donated tissue coated with her own cells
