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Scientists stumble across unknown stem-cell type
"Region-selective" pluripotent cells raise possibility of growing human organs in animals.
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Stem Cells Allow Nearly Blind Patients to See
Embryonic stem cells can be turned into a therapy to help the sight of the nearly blind
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USPTO issues patent for fraudulent stem cell procedure
Last weekend, The New York Times discovered that the US Patent Office had issued a patent for a procedure to generate human stem cells. This, by itself, isn't especially surprising. What is surprising is the recipient: Hwang Woo-suk, the Korean researcher who is widely considered to have faked his data in the paper that claimed derivation of the first cloned human stem cells.
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Stem cell 'major discovery' claimed
Stem cell researchers are heralding a "major scientific discovery", with the potential to start a new age of personalised medicine.