Stem Cells Used To Grow New Jawbone
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An amazing surgical procedure has allowed a man to rebuild his own jawbone after he lost it to cancer. The current issue of the medical journal &quot;Lancet&quot; describes the procedure used by surgeons in Germany to grow a new jaw for the man on his upper back.
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Scientists have discovered a new type of  embryonic stem cell in mice and rats that should speed up  research into regenerative medicine and help in the hunt for  cures to a range of diseases.
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Researchers are developing a tooth implant which automatically releases medicine.
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Scientists hope it may be possible to treat age-related hearing loss by stimulating the growth of new hair cells in the inner ear.
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Stem cells from fat tissue have been used to help grow bone to repair the damaged skull of a 7-year-old German girl, according to a report in a German medical journal.
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The Food and Drug Administration has for the first time approved the use of electrical stimulation of bone growth - a decades-old technology - to improve the success rate of spinal fusion
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Doctors in Germany have rebuilt a man's face after growing a new jaw on his back.
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German scientists have repaired the severely damaged skull of a 7-year-old girl using stem cells derived from body fat. The wound in the child&#39;s skull was too large to treat with conventional bone grafts.
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Scientists have used stem cells and a potion of nerve-friendly chemicals to not just bridge a damaged spinal cord but actually re-grow the circuitry needed to move a muscle, helping partially paralyzed rats walk.
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The biotech firm advances to next stage of clinical studies in stem cell research.
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German doctors have given a man the ability to have his first solid meal in nine years, by growing him a new jaw bone on his back.
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Scientists turn embryonic stem cells into retinal cells for the first time. The groundbreaking work could be tested to treat human blindness in two years if all goes well. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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Scientists develop a method of routinely growing stem cells in conditions similar to the human body.
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A German who had his lower jaw cut out because of cancer has enjoyed his first meal in nine years - a bratwurst sandwich - after surgeons grew a new jaw bone in his back muscle and transplanted it to his mouth in what experts call an "ambitious" experiment.
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A man has been able to savour his first proper meal in nine years after surgeons successfully created and transplanted a jawbone for him.
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Surgeons have used stem cells from fat to help repair skull damage in a 7-year-old girl in Germany, in what&#39;s apparently the first time such fat-derived cells have been exploited to grow bone in a human.
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A new way to manipulate human embryonic stem cells offers hope of a treatment for muscular dystrophies.