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EYE ORGAN FROM STEM CELLS. "A stem-cell biologist has had an eye-opening success in his latest effort to mimic mammalian organ development in vitro. Yoshiki Sasai of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CBD) in Kobe, Japan, has grown the precursor of a human eye in the lab." http://lnkd.in/bqgn2xY View in LinkedIn

3D PRINTING MEETS STEM CELLS. "Medical researchers have been reproducing human cells in laboratories by hand to create blood vessels, urine tubes, skin tissue and other living body parts. But engineering full organs, with their complicated cell structures, is much more difficult. Enter 3-D printers, which ... can reproduce the vascular systems required to make organs viable." http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/03/tech/innovation/3-d-printing-human-organs/ View in LinkedIn

PITHY INSIGHT. "Why do women produce only a few hundred mature eggs while men, over a lifetime, produce up to 4 trillion sperm cells? That each ejaculation has an average of 250,000,000 sperm (is) because not one of them is likely to stop along the way to ask for directions." http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130821/New-book-on-evolution-and-future-of-human-reproduction.aspx?page=2 View in LinkedIn

TEST TUBE VAGINAL REPLACEMENT. "Four women have had new vaginas grown in the laboratory and implanted by doctors in the US. A tissue sample and a biodegradable scaffold were used to grow vaginas in the right size and shape for each woman ... They all reported normal levels of "desire, arousal, lubrication, orgasm, satisfaction" and painless intercourse. http://lnkd.in/b6cAzFm View in LinkedIn

SPERM OCCURS IN PLANTS. "Motile sperm are also produced by many protists and the gametophytes of bryophytes, ferns and some gymnosperms such as cycads and ginkgo. The sperm cells are the only flagellated cells in the life cycle of these plants. In many ferns and lycophytes, they are multi-flagellated." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm View in LinkedIn

TRACHEAL STEM CELL REPLACEMENTS. "Our findings suggest that although autologous stem cells-engineered tracheal matrices may represent a tool for clinical tracheal replacement, further preclinical studies are required for generating functional airway grafts and long-term effects of such grafts." http://lnkd.in/bXzZ75B View in LinkedIn

The time of easy money in Spain ceased with the Crisis. Today, those smart and well-adapted companies seeking capital will seek money outside of Spain. Those that fail to do so will die in this Darwinian moment. http://www.expansion.com/blogs/quemada/2014/05/24/busca-los-inversores-fuera-de-espana.html View in LinkedIn

STEM CELLS FOR DEAFNESS. "A Sheffield University team took stem cells from foetuses and converted them into cells that behave like sensory hair cells in the human inner ear. Their discovery could ultimately help those who have lost hair cells through noise damage and some people born with inherited hearing problems." http://lnkd.in/b8TUUR7 View in LinkedIn

HUMAN REPRODUCTION has always presented an opportunity for genetic disease prevention, and in our era especially so. Genetic diseases inflict an enormous burden on victims and their families, and humankind would be better off without them. Like it or not, we are inexorably moving into a future with increased control over our reproduction. This series examines some of the issues. View in LinkedIn

UK ORGAN LAB. "Scientists in the UK are using stem cells to grow human body parts in a lab. The researchers are growing organs such as noses, ears, blood vessels and windpipes in the north London hospital where they work, in the hope that they may be used for transplants." http://lnkd.in/b92nuME View in LinkedIn