stem cells
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Fact Check: Here’s the Deal With Trump’s Antibody Cocktail and Fetal Cells
The inevitable happened, and Donald Trump wound up hospitalised with covid-19. But now Trump is supposedly recovered and back to his usual business, like recording galaxy-brain videos calling his infection a “blessing from God.” One thing that the president has said may well be true: that he recovered with the help of a still-experimental monoclonal…
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Viagra Might Someday Enhance Bone Marrow Transplants
The long story of sildenafil citrate, best known by the brand name Viagra, may have another chapter to it. Researchers at the University of California Santa Cruz think the drug can improve how we perform bone marrow transplants, as part of a combination therapy that allows doctors to harvest stem cells from patients quicker and…
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Contaminated Stem Cell Treatments Sickened At Least 12 People In 2018
Public health experts have been warning us about clinics offering unapproved and untested stem cell treatments for some time now. But a recent report from the Centres of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) underscores the health risks these procedures can have. An outbreak linked to stem cell injections contaminated with bacteria sickened at least 12…
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UK Doctors Used Stem Cells To Restore Eyesight In Two People
British doctors have taken a huge step towards curing a common form of age-related chronic eye condition.