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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.
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 ...
Good News for Alcoholics
Artificial livers can be grown in a petri dish
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.
Can Stem Cells Save Dying Hearts?
Just ask this pig
A New Red Line
Stem Cell Research Grows Up
Second Act For Stem Cells
Second Act For Stem Cells
Tissue Engineering
Biochemistry that makes alchemy look easy
Brain, Heal Thyself
Grow Your Own Organs
Organ printers build living transplantable organs one layer at a time.
Medicine
Year In Science
Medicine
Science That the Government Doesn't Want to Exist
Stem-cell research lurches along through roadblocks and red tape.
The Man Who Lost His Name—and His Genetic Identity
Eric Drew miraculously recovered from both cancer and identity theft.
The Year in Health & Medicine
The fitness pill, tainted drugs, why you should lick your wounds, and more.
The Year in Science
Sinking Chips
Doug Melton: Crossing Boundaries
Raw Data: Is Cancer the Price of Longevity?
The same protein that prevents cancer may also encourage aging.
Fighting for the Right to Clone
Stem cell and cloning guru Robert Lanza has battled the Catholic Church, the White House, and violent protesters.
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 ...
Keith Black
Determined to enter the brain in a friendly way
Blood Enemies
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.
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 ...
The Top 13 Medicine Stories of 2006
The first artificial-yet-organic organ, "World Trade Center cough," spiritual shrooms, and more
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 ...
Vital Signs
A young man's surprising collapse has a complex cause.
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 ...
20 Best Brains Under 40
Young innovators are changing everything from theoretical mathematics to cancer therapy.

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