De Japanse artsen, voor het eerst in de wereld, hebben stamcellen van liposuctioned vet gebruikt om borsttekorten in vrouwen te bevestigen die kankerstukken hadden die uit borsten worden verwijderd. Het kan ook een manier zijn om gezonde borsten te vergroten zonder kunstmatige implants te gebruiken, potentieel komt een droom waar wereldwijd voor miljoenen vrouwen.

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Dr. Vasyl Vasko van de Universiteit van de Diensten Uniformed van de Wetenschappen van de Gezondheid zei dat sommige behandelingen tegen kanker tumors kunnen krimpen maar meer cellen van de kankerstam produceren, die dan als manier uitzaaiing om de therapie te overleven
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Martin Abeloff, een gezag op de behandeling van borstkanker en belangrijkste oncoloog in Johns Hopkins en de directeur van Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center de afgelopen 15 jaar stierven aan leukemie in Baltimore op leeftijd 65.
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After a series of laboratory and animal experiments, Johns Hopkins scientists show that a drug which shuts down a critical cell-signaling pathway in the most common and aggressive type of adult brain cancer successfully kills cancer stem cells thought to fuel tumor growth and help cancers evade drug and radiation therapy.
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A new hope for leukemia patients that transplantation of umbilical cord blood is as effective for them as bone marrow transplantation. A University of Minnesota-led study has shown that the Patients receiving cord blood had the same five-year leukemia-free survival rates as those who received bone marrow.
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Six Year Old Sumaiya Aziza’s eye was damaged when a packet of wet lime or chuna had exploded into her eyes as she was playing with it at her home near Dhaka.

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A team of Canadian scientists have identified which genes help decide a stem cell’s fate; a discovery that one day could lead to drugs that invoke their regenerative power.

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A major scientific breakthrough in stem cell research was today revealed by Lothian experts in a move that could lead to huge advances in medical treatment. For the first time, scientists from Roslin have managed to create new stem cells from a clinically unusable human egg.

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Treatment of cancer affected children is now less complicated due to stem cell transplant therapy, according to Singapore-based paediatric haematologist-Oncologist consultant Dr Anselm Chi-wai Lee.

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Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified the cancer stem cells that propagate tumors in colon and rectal cancer, a discovery that could lead to improved treatment of this deadly cancer.

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