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    stem cells receives patent -Lungs next???

    Histogen's method of generating C 05 Sep 2013 Histogen, Inc., a regenerative medicine company developing innovative therapies for conditions including hair loss and cancer, has announced that the United States Patent & Trademark Office has issued patent 8,524,494, entitled "Low Oxygen...
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    COPD interesting reading

    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130815133107.htm
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    New Gene Repair Technique, Regenerative med.

    New Gene Repair Technique Promises Advances in Regenerative Medicine Aug. 12, 2013 — Using human pluripotent stem cells and DNA-cutting protein from meningitis bacteria, researchers from the Morgridge Institute for Research and Northwestern University have created an efficient way to target...
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    News Release February 25, 2013 Tweaking Gene Expression to Repair

    News Release February 25, 2013 Tweaking Gene Expression to Repair LungsPHILADELPHIA — Lung diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are on the rise, according to the American Lung Association and the National Institutes of Health. Expression of the important...
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    Reprogramming Adult Cells to Stem Cells Works Better With One Gene Turned Off

    Reprogramming Adult Cells to Stem Cells Works Better With One Gene Turned Off Wang and his team are the first to identify Jmjd3's role in inhibiting the reprogramming process. They found knockdown or deletion of Jmjd3 in young mouse fibroblasts was enough to greatly enhance reprogramming...
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    Defective gene's

    . Question, s If this defective gene (Below) is still defective after stem cell treatment then wouldn't the disease continue decline ? Wouldn't any progress fall to the same defects if smoking caused the gene mutations. Wouldn't stem cell treatment have to be combined with gene treatment...
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    A purer safer cell

    Medical News Today New Method To Produce Blood Cells From Stem Cells Could Yield A Purer, Safer Cell Therapy 16 Jul 2013 A new protocol for reprogramming induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) into mature blood cells, using just a small amount of the patient's own blood and a readily...
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    Medical Tourism

    http://www.bloomberg.com/slideshow/2013-06-25/top-travel-destinations-for-medical-tourism.html?cmpid=taboola.ss.art Copy and Past if needed
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    Vit C, Stem cells

    Vitamin C Influences Gene Activity In Stem Cells 02 Jul 2013 http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/262739.php
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    Mayo Clinic Lung regeneration

    http://mayoresearch.mayo.edu/mayo/research/center-for-regenerative-medicine/lung-regeneration.cfm
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    lung regeneration , Genome Institute of Singapore

    Research breakthrough in lung regeneration Published on October 29, 2011 at 3:10 AM Working together, scientists and clinicians make research breakthrough that paves the way for novel therapies for respiratory disease Scientists at A*STAR'S Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and Institute of...
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    Important vidio, Dr Atala

    Dr Atala http://www.ted.com/talks/anthony_atala_printing_a_human_kidney.html
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    Commonly Used Blood Pressure Drug Prevents Smoking-Related Lung Damage in MiceRelease

    Commonly Used Blood Pressure Drug Prevents Smoking-Related Lung Damage in MiceRelease Date: 01/02/2012 Finding advances likelihood of using losartan for chronic emphysema and bronchitis, and other chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases Working with mice, scientists at Johns Hopkins have...
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    New air sacs

    Lung Researchers Create New Air Sacs in Mouse Model of Emphysema Using a Novel Growth Factor Feb. 14, 2013 — In a study of mice, researchers at Johns Hopkins have identified a new molecular pathway involved in the growth of tiny air sacs called alveoli that are crucial for breathing. The...
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    Air seal trial

    Mayo Clinic is doing a trial for "Air Seal"" It's an injection to seal the large holes in lungs; I was there (Mayo in Fla.) Last week for some testing and told about this. I do not qualify and did not even know about this trial . The doctor suggested it . Just thought I would pass it...
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    The Supreme Court heard oral arguments today (April 15) in a case to decide whether h

    The Supreme Court heard oral arguments today (April 15) in a case to decide whether human genes can be patented. The court will decide whether Myriad Genetics, a biotechnology company, has the right to patent human genes — in this case, two gene mutations called BRCA1 and BRCA2 that increase...
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    Implantable, Bioengineered Rat Kidney

    Note reference to lungs below !! Hearts, lungs and livers. Implantable, Bioengineered Rat Kidney: Transplanted Organ Produces Urine, but Further Refinement Is Needed enlarge This is a previously decellularized rat kidney after reseeding with endothelial cells, to repopulate the organ's...
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    Are Human Genes Patentable? On April 15, the Supreme Court of the United States will

    Are Human Genes Patentable? Apr. 12, 2013 — On April 15, the Supreme Court of the United States will hear oral argument in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, a case that could answer the question, "Under what conditions, if any, are isolated human genes patentable?" Kevin...
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    You Don't 'Own' Your Own Genes:

    From, Science News : You Don't 'Own' Your Own Genes: Researchers Raise Alarm About Loss of Individual 'Genomic Liberty' Due to Gene Patents In a new study, researchers report that through more than 40,000 patents on DNA molecules, companies have essentially claimed the entire human genome...
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    Stem Cell's 'Holy Grail'

    Sweet News for Stem Cell's 'Holy Grail' Neural projections (green) formed from mouse embryonic stem cells cultured on the scaffolds with the sugars attached. (Credit: Image courtesy of Manchester University) (Image not shown) Feb. 26, 2013 — Scientists have used sugar-coated scaffolding to...
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