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The Lancent online has published an early update from the one of the world’s first clinical trials to use human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) for human patients. The preliminary Phase I data suggests that blindness might reversible with embryonic stem cell transplants. The cells that were transplanted into patients were not actually hESCs. Instead, the [...]

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have developed a wound treatment method that seems to help the body regrow healthy, scar-free skin. Although the body has an amazing regenerative capacity, it cannot regrow completely normal, healthy skin – when wounds heal, damaged skin is replaced by scar tissue. Scar tissue is not like healthy skin. Although [...]

Every living creature is made up of cells that are built from molecules. Proteins, carbohydrates and lipids are families of molecules that coordinate chemistry to  keep cells living and reproducing. Carbohydrates and lipids are just as important as proteins, but proteins have a more complex structure. Proteins have a problem because they are bigger  than carbohydrates and lipids and contain [...]

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jtotheizzoe: Miniature lab can diagnose HIV and syphilis in the field in minutes with only a finger-prick of blood and a credit card-sized reader. (by NatureVideoChannel)