These Stem Cell Treatments Cost the Rich Thousands. Donors Get Paid $200
“If you are a student and you live on $700 as a monthly budget, $200 extra is nice,” says Bernow. “If you work 10 hours for me, I don’t mind …
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Bone Marrow Donors Can Be Hard to Find. One Company Is Turning to Cadavers
“Today’s ecosystem is based around living volunteers,” Ossium’s CEO and cofounder, Kevin Caldwell, says. While the US organ donor system has existed for decades, bone marrow has never been regularly …
Scientists Just Tried Growing Human Kidneys in Pigs
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In a first, researchers in China have used pigs to grow early-stage kidneys made up of mostly human cells. The advance is a step closer to producing organs in animals …
A Patient May Be Free of HIV, Thanks to This Drug
A sixth person, dubbed the “Geneva patient,” may be free of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant intended to treat another disease—his cancer. The man, who was diagnosed with …
‘Embryo Models’ Challenge the Legal, Ethical, and Biological Concepts of an ‘Embryo’
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Meanwhile, Hanna’s team in Israel was growing mouse embryo models in a similar way, as they described in a paper in Cell that was published shortly before the paper from …
An Ancient Battle Is Playing Out in the DNA of Every Embryo
The new paper is the result of herculean computational analyses, involving researchers in Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom, to better understand the role ancient retroviruses play in early embryonic …
A Hair Loss Study Raises New Questions About Aging Cells
Next, they got patients from a hair transplant clinic to donate follicles, then grafted those healthy hairs onto mice. Follicles normally undergo a sort of shock after a transplant, going …