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Stem cell injection improves aging cells in mice

News: Stem Cells    January 11, 2012
“The provocative findings urge further research,” said Dr. Niedernhofer, one of the senior investigators on a University of Pittsburgh (USA) stem cell project. The context is injecting stem cells from young mice into very old mice and mice with progeria, a disease that causes rapid aging. As described in Nature Communications [03 January 2012, Open [...]
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Making a start on a synthetic liver

News: Synthetic Biology    November 1, 2010
What do you call a house with most of the framework in place, some of the plumbing, and a few walls? More than started, but a long way from finished. That just about fits the description of what some are calling ‘the first synthetic liver.’ It’s far from being a true liver, though a few [...]
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