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    Stem cells engineered to grow cartilage, fight inflammation

    From:<https://source.wustl.edu/2016/07/stem-cells-engineered-grow-cartilage-fight-inflammation/> With a goal of treating worn, arthritic hips without extensive surgery to replace them, scientists have programmed stem cells to grow new cartilage on a 3-D template shaped like the ball of a hip...
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    £1.2 million for injectable stem-cell carrying microspheres to regenerate bones

    From: <http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-07/uon-fi072516.php> The University of Nottingham has secured £1.2m to develop injectable stem cell-carrying materials to treat and prevent fractures caused by osteoporosis and other bone-thinning diseases. The experimental materials consist...
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    Breakthrough in scaling up life-changing stem cell production

    From: <http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/311665.php> Scientists have discovered a new method of creating human stem cells which could solve the big problem of the large-scale production needed to fully realise the potential of these remarkable cells for understanding and treating...
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    'jiggling stem cells to turn into bone offer revolutionary treatment for osteoporosis

    From: <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/07/05/good-vibrations-jiggling-stem-cells-that-turn-into-bone-offer-re/> New treatments for osteoporosis or broken bones are on the horizon after scientists discovered they can grow new bone simply by vibrating stem cells. Currently the only...
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    Israeli Startup Nano Dimension 3D Prints Human Stem Cells

    From: <http://nocamels.com/2016/06/nano-dimension-3d-prints-human-stem-cells/?utm_source=activetrail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nc9/06/16> Using plastics, nylon and metals to 3D print objects has already transformed the way companies around the world manufacture their prototypes and...
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    intervertebral disc regeneration with stem cells

    From: <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25796605>: <Gene. 2015 Jun 10;564(1):1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.gene.2015.03.022. Epub 2015 Mar 19.> Efficacy of intervertebral disc regeneration with stem cells - a systematic review and meta-analysis of animal controlled trials. Wang Z1, Perez-Terzic CM2...
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    Doctors Often Overestimate Promise of Newly Approved Drugs

    When I read this, I could feel my blood pressure accelerating....here's another li'l story regarding the FDA bag of crap they're ladling out...for all us saps...
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    3D Printed Skull Saves the Life of South Korean Woman

    Do you think you'd find ANY of this kind of thing going on here in the U.S.A.? From: <https://3dprint.com/128423/3d-printed-skull-surgery/> In the latest edition of “I’m sorry, they did what?” a team of South Korean surgeons has successfully transplanted a 3D printed skull into a patient. The...
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    Biopen Used to Deposit Stem Cells, Repair Tissue Within Joints

    From: <http://www.medgadget.com/2016/04/biopen-used-to-deposit-stem-cells-repair-tissue-within-joints.html> Stem cells have the capacity to be used to reconstruct and repair native tissues, but to apply them so that they survive and live on in their new home can be quite challenging. Now...
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    Stem cell therapy reverses age-related osteoporosis in mice

    From: <http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-03-stem-cell-therapy-reverses-age-related.html> Imagine telling a patient suffering from age-related (type-II) osteoporosis that a single injection of stem cells could restore their normal bone structure. This week, with a publication in Stem Cells...
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    New study tests stem cells as a treatment for degenerative disc disease

    From: <http://www.mdlinx.com/orthopedics/medical-news-article/2016/02/15/6536971/?news_id=657&newsdt=021516&subspec_id=266&utm_source=DailyNL&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=General-Article&utm_campaign=article-section&category=latest&page_id=1> UC Davis Health System, 02/15/2016 As part of...
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    Implant 'traps' spreading cancer cells

    From: <http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34191325> A small sponge-like implant that can mop up cancer cells as they move through the body has been developed by US researchers. So far tested in mice, it is hoped the device could act as an early warning system in patients, alerting doctors to...
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    Novel Form of 3D Bioprinting

    From: <http://3dprint.com/113627/bradley-ringeisen-bioprinting/> Bolding & underlining mine....my question about this is....how can they actually PRINT OUT a living CELL!!? I consider this kind of thing, a hint of what's heading toward us...and maybe with a hurricane velocity... Robert Dr...
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    Novel Material Could Revolutionize 3D Bioprinting for Regenerative Medicine

    From:<http://3dprint.com/62259/celleron-bioprinting/> You need to view the illustrations...! Robert Over recent months there have been an increasing number of advances in biomedical-related 3D printing technologies. We have already seen many incredible ways in which 3D printing has been111...
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    College Students Win Seed Money to Launch OsBot Human Bone Replicating 3D Printer

    From: <http://3dprint.com/59272/bone-3d-printer/> Advances in 3D printing technology have begun to have a transformative effect on the medical community. We’ve all read the stories of 3D printed hands and other prosthetic devices, but that is only scratching the surface of how 3D printing has...
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    Watch As Researchers Create Beating, 3D Printed Heart Organoid

    URL: <http://3dprint.com/58602/3d-printed-heart-organoid/> They call them “organoids,” and they’re 3D printed, beating cardiac cells which are sure to inspire scientists and biologists while raising ethical concerns among critics intent on stopping the progress of the technology. The...
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    Hormones and joint regeneration

    Interesting item regarding hormones, joint regeneration, and their effects on chronic pain: From: http://www.caringmedical.com/prolotherapy-news/hormone-levels-cartilage-regeneration/ Danielle.Steilen.ProlotherapistDanielle R. Steilen, MMS, PA-C In this article we discuss the use of human...
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    3D Printing with Animal Bone May Regenerate Human Bones

    A rather interesting item: http://3dprint.com/55919/russian-researchers-3d-printing-animal-bone-regenerate-human-bones-manage-pain/ Bolding is mine... Some of us have had the experience ourselves, regretfully, of enduring a trauma resulting in a broken limb which never completely healed. More...
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    When Cancer Cells Stop Acting Like Cancer

    From: <http://www.medgadget.com/2015/03/cancer-cells-stop-acting-like-cancer.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Medgadget+%28Medgadget%29> WASHINGTON (March 16, 2015) — Cancer cells crowded tightly together suddenly surrender their desire to spread, and this...
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    Slowing the aging process

    This looks like a very significant advance! http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/290655.php?tw A short excerpt: New class of drugs take 'big first step' toward slowing the aging process The results of a new study have pushed researchers one step closer to developing drugs that slow the...
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