Stress And Grey Hair: What Is The Connection?

Stress Really Does Make Hair Go Gray Faster by Knvul Sheikh.  The New York Times.  January 22, 2020.

HIV Cleared A Second Times, Providing Clues For What Works

Treating Lymphoma With HIV-Resistant Stem Cells Stops An HIV Infection by John Timmer.  ARS Technica.  March 5, 2019.

Fasting Boosts Stem Cells' Regenerative Capacity

Fasting Boosts Stem Cells' Regenerative Capacity.  Massachusetts Institute Of Technology/Science Daily.  May 3, 2018. 

Mutated Stem Cells In Bone Marrow Strongly Linked To Heart Attack And Stroke Risk

Scientists Discover A Bone-Deep Risk For Heart Disease by Gina Kolata.  The New York Times.  January 29, 2017. 

Stem Cell Therapies Present Regulatory Challenges

F.D.A. Cracks Down On 'Unscrupulous' Stem Cell Clinics by Sheila Kaplan Denise Grady.  The New York Times.  August 28, 2017. 

Proposed Lifting The Ban For Funding Research That Injects Human Stem Cells Into Animal Embryos

N.I.H. May Fund Human-Animal Stem Cell Research by Gina Kolata.  The New York Times.  August 4, 2016

Direct-To-Consumer Stem Cell Treatments, Not Backed by Science, Popping Up Everywhere

Stem Cell Clinics Hawking Unproven Therapies Sprout Up Across US by Usha Lee McFarling.  Stat.  June 30, 2016

In A Small Study Of Stroke Patients, Direct Brain Injection Of Stems Cells Seems To Often Lead To Improvement

Stanford Researchers 'Stunned By Stem Cell Experiment That Helped Stroke Patient Walk by Ariana Eunjung Cha.  The Washington Post.  June 2, 2016

Possible Surgical Treatment For The Most Severe Type Of Macular Degeneration Shows Some Promise

Age-Related Blindness Cure Steps Closer With New Stem Cell Trial by James McIntosh.  Medical News Today.  September 29, 2015. 

Why Are 95% Of People Who Live To 110 Women? New And Needed Direction For Research

Why Are 95% of People Who Live to 110 Women?  You're As Old As Your Stem Cells.  Cell Press/Science Daily.  June 4, 2015. 

Hoping To Duplicate The Success of His Brain Science Institute, Paul Allen Funds Massive Study Of Cells And How They Change

Billionaire Paul Allen Donates $100m To New 'Industrial Scale' Effort to Understand Human Cells by Arianna Eunjung Cha.  The Washington Post.  December 8, 2014.

Using Stem Cells To Reawaken Heart Cells Damaged In Heart Attack

Can Heart Attack Damage Be Reversed?  by Caleb Hellerman.  CNN.  July 14, 2014.

Mouse Study: Low Power Laser Shown To Stem Cells To Repair Teeth

Low-Power Laser May Trigger Tooth Repair.  Health Day.  May 28, 2014.

Turning Mature Cells Into Stem Cells By Stress

Stem Cell Breakthrough May Be Simple, Fast, Cheap by Elizabeth Landau.  CNN.  January 30, 2014.
(1)    One of the methods described to turn mature cells and turning them into stem cells is to _____________________________.

(2)  Before this technique outlined in the article,  the leading candidates for creating stem cells artificially were __________________________.

(3)  The new method does not involve the _________________ or _______________.

(4)  The process is called STAP or ____________________________.

(5)  The effectiveness in humans of this process is ___________.

Umbilical Cord Blood Viewed With Hope As Cure For A Range of Conditions

Umbilical Cord Draws Focus From More Scientists Seeking Cures by Peter Loftus.  The Wall Street Journal.  January 6, 2013.

(1)  Umbilical blood is already used for __________________.

(2)  Disease that may be treated with cord blood include_______________.

(3)  Umbilical cords of newborns contain _____________ which can ______________.

(4)  Cord-blood transplants replenish the _____________ that are destroyed by _________________.
(5)  What are advantages of cord blood over bone marrow transplants?

(6)  More than _________ hospitals actively collect cord blood from babies with the mother's consent.

(7)  Some researchers see applications for autoimmune diseases including _____________________.

Reversion Of Tissue To Embryonic State Achieved For The First Time In An Animal

Stem Cells:  Living Adult Tissue Transformed Back Into Embryo State by James Gallagher.  BBC News.  September 11, 2013.

(1)  This new technique could led to ways to _______________.

(2)  However the technique lead to ___________ in mice pointing to issues of _______ in the process.  

(3)  A possible use in ophthalmology could be ____________________

A Liver From Skin And Blood Stem Cells: A First For Science

Scientists Create Human Liver From Stem Cells by Kate Kelland.  Reuters.  July 3, 2013.

Read the article and test your retention with the following quiz.

(1)  It may take ___________ years before lab-grown livers could treat patients.

(2)  There are two main forms of stem cells, _____________________________.

(3)  iPS stands for ____________________.

(4)  Researchers used iPS cells to produce these three different types of cells that combine in embryo to produce the human liver: ____________________________________________.

(5)  The greatest impact iPS cell-liver buds may be _________________________.

Creating Stem Cells From Skin Cells Via An Unfertilized Egg

Scientists Convert Human Skin Cells Into Embryonic Stem Cells by Jason Koebler.  US News.  May 15, 2013.

(1)  The method used by researchers at Oregon Health & Science University used _____ instead of ______, a move that could help quiet the ethical debate surrounding stem cell research.

(2)  With the future development of stem cell therapies, health scientists believe specific cell types derived from stem cells could be ____________________________.

(3)  Rejection could be avoided using this method because _______________________________
_______________________.

(4)  Embryonic stem cells are likely the best cells to use for therapies because they are ________
than adult stem cells.

Implantation of Bioengineered Windpipe The First For The United States

Groundbreaking Surgery For Girl Born Without Windpipe by Henry Fountain.  The New York Times.  April 30, 2013.

The windpipe was made of plastic fibers bathed in stem cells from bone marrow.

Astrophysicists And Cell Biologists Team Up To Develop A New Technique To Grow New Bone

"Nanokicking" Stem Cells Offers Cheaper and Easier Way To Grow Bone. Medical News Today.  April 5, 2013.

The "nanokicking" is derived  from laser interferometry, an astrophysical technique.  It replicates a vibration that occurs in the membranes of bone cells when they stick together to form new bone naturally.  Nanokicking causes mesenchymal stem cells to differentiate into bone cells.  Next the researchers will work with rehabilitation engineers to help patients.