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'Stem cells' created in less than 30 minutes in 'groundbreaking' discovery Scientists have turned adult cells back to their embryonic form in under 30 minutes by simply treating them with acid in a breakthough which could revolutionise personalised medicine Cells which acted like embyonic stem...

Stem cell 'major discovery' claimed By James GallagherHealth and science reporter, BBC News Continue reading the main story Related Stories Adult tissue 'sent back to embryo' 'Big leap' towards curing blindness Milestone in medical human 'cloning' Stem cell researchers are heralding a...

Gurdon and Yamanaka share Nobel prize for stem cell workBy James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News British scientist John Gurdon told a news conference he still keeps a bad report given to him by his school science teacher Two pioneers of stem cell research have shared the...

Contrary to popular scientific belief, human lung stem cells do exist and their discovery may lead to improved treatments for COPD. Dr. Piero Anversa, director of the Center for Regenerative Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) in Boston, Massachusetts, and his colleagues believe that...

05/15/11 at 08:24 AM Reply with quote #4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Latest on Lung Stem Cell article dated 12 May 2011 - also to view at medical news today. Lung stem cell discovery may lead to new treatments New research has shed...

IMPORTANT MESSAGE. This letter is in reply to Helen who had been told by her doctor to take the short-acting bronchodilator (Albuterol) before the long-acting one (Advair) "To open up the airways". Mark Mangus explains why this is not good advice and results in excessive drug usage. If it...

TUESDAY, Nov. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Certain vitamin deficiencies may lead to decreased lung function in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), which includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis, says a new study. For the study, 20 COPD patients (13 women, seven men) completed a...

Asthma inhalers increase chances of diabetes: Researchers MONTREAL ? Montreal researchers have discovered that patients using inhaled steroids increase their chances of developing diabetes. Patients with lung disease should ask their physicians about treatment with the synthetic hormone...

November 25th. Posted by David - [D's comments in brackets] There has been a lot of interest in the new drug Daxas in the UK and many patients are asking for it. A UK doctor who was personally involved in an assessment of Daxas was approached. The response below is understood to be a...

This could be important for copd - but sadly, only in the long term Adult skin cells can be turned into pluripotent stem cells by dosing them with messenger RNA sequences corresponding to stem cell-related transcription factors, researchers found. The manoeuvre allowed a team at the Harvard...

I found this article in a very good English site called breathless with emphysema which was founded by John Kirtley who spent 6 of his last years explaining all about emphysema to us lay sufferers. I do know of course that stem cells are our best bet, however this implant could help people...

I have only just joined this wonderful forum site and for the last 3 days have been doing a lot of reading! My name is Michael, am 70, and have severe emphysema with a fev 1 of 25 %. I was diagnosed about 10 years ago , smoking was the cause. I have been living in Brazil for 51 years now and...