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#16: Researchers Produce Human Blood from Stem Cells
- It's not quite the same, but lab-generated blood gets the job done.
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The Mother of All Blood Cells
- Stem cells, capable of generating an endless supply of red cells, white cells, and platelets, have also generated a heated scientific controversy--and millions ...
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Good News for Alcoholics
- Artificial livers can be grown in a petri dish
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Body Attacks Self; Body Protects Self
- New studies show promise for using a person's own stem cells to protect them from autoimmune disorders like diabetes and multiple sclerosis.
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Can Stem Cells Save Dying Hearts?
- Just ask this pig
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A New Red Line
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Stem Cell Research Grows Up
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Second Act For Stem Cells
- Second Act For Stem Cells
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Tissue Engineering
- Biochemistry that makes alchemy look easy
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Brain, Heal Thyself
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Grow Your Own Organs
- Organ printers build living transplantable organs one layer at a time.
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Medicine
- Year In Science
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Medicine
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Science That the Government Doesn't Want to Exist
- Stem-cell research lurches along through roadblocks and red tape.
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The Man Who Lost His Name—and His Genetic Identity
- Eric Drew miraculously recovered from both cancer and identity theft.
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The Year in Health & Medicine
- The fitness pill, tainted drugs, why you should lick your wounds, and more.
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The Year in Science
- Sinking Chips
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Doug Melton: Crossing Boundaries
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Raw Data: Is Cancer the Price of Longevity?
- The same protein that prevents cancer may also encourage aging.
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Fighting for the Right to Clone
- Stem cell and cloning guru Robert Lanza has battled the Catholic Church, the White House, and violent protesters.
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Body, Cure Thyself
- The huge promise of genetic medicine is to cure the diseases we were born to inherit. Researchers seem so very close to a breakthrough, yet not one single ...
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Keith Black
- Determined to enter the brain in a friendly way
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Blood Enemies
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I'll Have My Burger Petri-Dish Bred, With Extra Omega-3
- How researchers can make meat that's better for you—and better for animals.
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Being Brave for This New World
- Although cloning is the biggest story of 2002, most people have an incomplete understanding of the process and promise of this high-tech procedure. Researchers ...
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The Top 13 Medicine Stories of 2006
- The first artificial-yet-organic organ, "World Trade Center cough," spiritual shrooms, and more
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Ontogeny Recapitulated
- Biologists are learning how to turn on the genes that make our cells young. With them, we might repair our bones. Replenish our blood. Replace our limbs. And ...
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Vital Signs
- A young man's surprising collapse has a complex cause.
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The Second Coming of Gene Therapy
- For years, gene therapy produced tons of hype but no results. Recently, though, new approaches have yielded its first successes: breakthrough treatments for ...
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20 Best Brains Under 40
- Young innovators are changing everything from theoretical mathematics to cancer therapy.