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FUTURE EYE THERAPY WITH STEM CELLS, "using retinal stem cells to try to replace lost photoreceptors in the degenerating retina, and that’s really targeted at retinitis pigmetosa initially, but we hope things like macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, diseases like those, will also be treatable someday with stem cells." http://lnkd.in/bjRzhiZ View in LinkedIn

REBUILDING PHOTORECEPTORS WITH STEM CELLS. "They have used a new technique for building retinas in the laboratory ... collect thousands of stem cells, which were primed to transform into photoreceptors, and injected them into the eyes of blind mice. The study showed that these cells could hook up with the existing architecture of the eye and begin to function." http://lnkd.in/bdAFYAC View in LinkedIn

CORNEAL REPAIR WITH STEM CELL DISC. “The disc has an outer ring containing pockets into which stem cells taken from the patient’s healthy eye can be placed. The material across the center of the disc is thinner than the ring, so it will biodegrade more quickly allowing the stem cells to proliferate across the surface of the eye to repair the cornea.” http://lnkd.in/bsJjTxq View in LinkedIn

STEM CELLS REPAIR FAILED VISION. "An experimental stem-cell treatment has restored the sight of a man blinded by the degeneration of his retinal cells. The man, who is taking part in a trial examining the safety of using human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) to reverse two common causes of blindness, can now see well enough to be allowed to drive. http://lnkd.in/bTbj6W5 View in LinkedIn

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