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Turning Human Spare Parts Into Exports: Tissue Engineering Can Become a New Global Export Item, Expert Says
June 11, 2013 A Finnish researcher believes that tissue engineering can become a new global export item. With tissue engineering, it is possible to produce tailored, living human spare parts. If the method can be ... > full story -
Neurostimulation Lowers Need for Opioids in Chronic Pain
June 10, 2013 Scientists have created the first consensus guidelines for the use of neurostimulation, an established and growing therapy for chronic pain and other ... > full story -
Bone Tumor in 120,000-Year-Old Neandertal Discovered
June 5, 2013 The first-known definitive case of a benign bone tumor has been discovered in the rib of a young Neandertal who lived about 120,000 years ago in what is now present-day Croatia. The bone fragment, ... > full story -
Diabetes Drug Shows Promise in Treatment of Neurodegenerative Disease
June 7, 2013 Researchers have found that a drug used to control Type II diabetes can help repair the spinal cords of mice suffering from the inherited disease adrenoleukodystrophy which, untreated, leads ... > full story -
Reversal Cells May Tip the Balance Between Bone Formation and Resorption in Health and Disease
June 6, 2013 By analyzing biopsy specimens from patients with postmenopausal osteoporosis and primary hyperparathyroidism, investigators have begun to pay increasing attention to "reversal cells," which prepare ... > full story -
Candidate Drug Provides Benefit in Spinal Muscular Atrophy Animal Models
June 4, 2013 The drug RG3039 demonstrates that it can extend survival and improve function in two spinal muscular atrophy mouse ... > full story -
New Technique Alleviates Painful Bone Metastases, Study Suggests
May 31, 2013 A high-dose of ultrasound targeted to painful bone metastases appears to quickly bring patients relief, and with largely tolerable side effects, according to new ... > full story -
Researchers Coax Clays to Make Human Bone
May 30, 2013 Whether damaged by injury, disease or age, your body as an adult can't create entirely new bone, but maybe science can. Researchers are making strides in tissue engineering, designing scaffolds that ... > full story -
Adult Stem Cells Could Hold Key to Cure Type 1 Diabetes
May 29, 2013 Scientists have discovered that by combining cells from bone marrow with a new drug may help cure type 1 ... > full story -
Gene Therapies for Regenerative Surgery Are Getting Closer
May 29, 2013 Experimental genetic techniques may one day provide plastic and reconstructive surgeons with an invaluable tool—the ability to promote growth of the patient's own tissues for reconstructive ... > full story
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