By BIANCA SEIDMAN, CBS NEWS, June 05, 2015 A rat in Boston received what scientists are calling the first lab-engineered replacement limb. The “bio-artificial” rat forelimb is the result of a research experiment published online in the journal Biomaterials. Starting with the framework of a donor limb, scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital then brought to…

CNN Library, May 30, 2015. Here’s some background information about stem cells. Scientists believe that stem cell research can be used to treat medical conditions including Parkinson’s Disease, spinal cord injury, stroke, burns, heart disease, diabetes, osteoarthritis, and rheumatoid arthritis. About Stem Cells: Stem cell research focuses on embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells….

CBS NEWS, February 27, 2015. Scientists at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park are looking at new ways to breathe life into critically endangered animals. They’re collecting samples from thousands of creatures, including rhinos, teetering on the brink of extinction, reports CBS News correspondent John Blackstone. Meet Chutti, a scampering baby rhino who was born…

Японские ученые впервые воссоздали стволовые клетки из человеческой кожи, что, по их мнению, может привести к появлению препаратов, сравнимых с теми, что получают при клонировании человеческих эмбрионов, но без связанных с этим этических проблем. Журнал Cell опубликовал во вторник отчет о работе группы ученых под руководством профессора Синья Яманака из университета Киото. Практически одновременно об…

CNN NEWS, October 23, 2014. A ground-breaking cell transplant has allowed a paralyzed man to walk again, researchers announced Tuesday. Polish man Darek Fidyka, 38, had been left paralyzed from the chest down after a 2010 knife attack caused an 8mm gap in his spinal cord. An initial 13 months of rehabilitation followed by an…

By Saundra Young, CNN NEWS, October 17, 2014. Researchers say that human embryonic stem cells have restored the sight of several nearly blind patients – and that their latest study shows the cells are safe to use long-term. According to a report published this week in The Lancet, the researchers transplanted stem cells into 18…

By Elizabeth Landau, CNN, April 28, 2014. For the first time, cloning technologies have been used to generate stem cells that are genetically matched to adult patients. Fear not: No legitimate scientist is in the business of cloning humans. But cloned embryos can be used as a source for stem cells that match a patient…

By Elizabeth Landau, CNN, October 02, 2013. We’ve seen beating heart tissue, windpipes and bladders all grown from stem cells. Now researchers have taken another important step forward by growing mini brains from these programmable cells. They’re not actually functioning brains — in the same way that a car with the engine on its roof…

CNN, Aug 28, 2013. 16 photos: Photos: History of stem cells History of stem cells – In October 2014, a study showed that stem cells could help people with macular degeneration, an eye disease that causes progressive loss of sight. Researchers followed 18 patients for three years and saw no signs of rejected of the…

By Alice Park, TIME.com, May 16, 2013 It’s been 17 years since Dolly the sheep was cloned from a mammary cell. And now scientists applied the same technique to make the first embryonic stem cell lines from human skin cells. Ever since Ian Wilmut, an unassuming embryologist working at the Roslin Institute just outside of…

By Alexandra Sifferlin, TIME.com, May 01, 2013. Hannah Warren was born without a trachea but now has one made from plastic fibers and a stew of her own stem cells. The 2-year-old Korean Canadian has spent every day of her life in intensive care, kept alive by a tube that substituted for the windpipe that…

By Bill Mears, CNN Supreme Court Producer, January 08, 2013. The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a long-standing appeal from scientists who tried to block funding of stem cell research on human embryos. The brief order from the justices is a victory for supporters of federally funded testing to combat a range of diseases and…

Anderson Cooper 360, Source: CNN, May 19, 2012. A clinic in India claims its use in experimental stem cell therapy that’s banned in the U.S. works. Drew Griffin reports. Read More…

By David Fitzpatrick and Drew Griffin, CNN Special Investigations Unit, April 23, 2012. At 39 years old, Christopher John Nitkowski really has no business trying to pitch in the major leagues. In the harsh reality of professional sports, he’s a has-been. Just don’t tell him that. The former first-round draft pick last pitched for the…

CNN Newsroom, February 14, 2012. CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports on a new stem cell therapy that might heal damage after a heart attack. Read More…

By Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, January 23, 2012. Two women with untreatable eye diseases said they had dramatic improvements in their vision after injections of human embryonic stem cells, making it the first documented time these controversial cells have helped someone. “This is a big step forward for regenerative medicine, said Dr. Steven Schwartz at UCLA’s…

By Miriam Falco, CNN, November 21, 2011. A 50-year-old man from Trion, Georgia, is the first person to be injected with stem cells in the upper part of the spinal cord, making him yet another pioneer in the scientific quest to use stem cells to heal. Richard Grosjean received the treatment Friday. He is part…

By Caleb Hellerman, CNN, November 14, 2011. On a June day in 2009, a 39-year-old man named Ken Milles lay on an exam table at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. A month earlier, he’d suffered a massive heart attack that destroyed nearly a third of his heart. “The most difficult part was the uncertainty,”…

By Miriam Falco, CNN, October 06, 2011. For the first time, researchers have succeeded in creating human embryonic stem cells by injecting DNA from a skin cell into an unfertilized egg, according to a study published Wednesday. To achieve what is being called an “important step” in stem cell research, scientists in New York used…

BBC, 20 November 2007. Human skin cells have been reprogrammed by two groups of scientists to mimic embryonic stem cells with the potential to become any tissue in the body. The breakthrough promises a plentiful new source of cells for use in research into new treatments for many diseases. Crucially, it could mean that such…

BBC News, October 09, 2007 Do stem cells really offer a miracle cure? Stem cells are the building blocks of life. With the potential to grow into any type of tissue in the body, they seem to offer hope for patients with nowhere else to turn. Patients with muscular dystrophy, Parkinson’s and severed spinal chords…