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agriculturePlant and stem cell based meat has normal meat taste but no antibiotics or hormones

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August 12, 2018 | brian wang |
 
Chicken grown from cells is already on the menu in some restaurants and cell produced burgers are coming by 2021. Improved tasting plant protein burgers are also available. Impossible burger is a wheat protein burger that uses a plant based …
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antiaging80 year old billionaires are injecting Placental stem cells to boost lifespan and health

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August 6, 2018 | brian wang |
 
Injecting Placental stem cells into old mice at the end of their lives can boost longevity by 50%. It extends the life of 2-year-old mice to three years. Peter Diamandis states that he personally knows billionaires who are over the …
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japanStem cell treatment of Parkinson’s disease via half inch holes in the skull

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August 6, 2018 | brian wang |
 
Kyoto University Hospital will start clinical trials for Parkinson’s disease that transplants dopaminergic progenitors generated from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. About 5 million iPS cell-derived dopaminergic progenitors will be transplanted by stereotaxic brain surgery into the left and right …
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3dSynthetic meat that is more like real free range meat using 4 types of cells

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May 2, 2018 | brian wang |
 
Aleph Farms is producing clean meat that resembles free range meat using a 3D textured process. Aleph Farm’s technology overcomes a critical clean meat issue – similarity to real meat. Our clean meat is closer to free range meat thanks …
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antiagingAubrey de Grey and West of AgeX talk about embryonic regeneration and reversing aging

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April 25, 2018 | brian wang |
 
Michael D. West 2018 Presentation at The World Stem Cell Summit on “Stem Cell Innovations That Will Change the World” Michael D. West, Ph.D., CEO of AgeX Therapeutics, discusses the medical regeneration revolution by looking back at how advances in …
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antiagingLongeveron developing stem cell treatments for Frailty, Alzheimers and other aging diseases

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January 17, 2018 | brian wang |
 
Longeveron is a life sciences company developing biological solutions for aging and aging-associated diseases through the use of Allogeneic Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells, harvested and grown at our facility in Miami, Florida, from adult-donor bone marrow. Longeveron is a privately …
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medicinePlatelet coated stem cells Could Offer Targeted Heart Repair

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January 13, 2018 | brian wang |
 
Although cardiac stem cell therapy is a promising treatment for heart attack patients, directing the cells to the site of an injury – and getting them to stay there – remains challenging. In a new pilot study using an animal …
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malariaHuman skeletal muscle grown from stem cells

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January 12, 2018 | brian wang |
 
Biomedical engineers have grown the first functioning human skeletal muscle from induced pluripotent stem cells. The advance builds on work published in 2015 when researchers at Duke University grew the first functioning human muscle tissue from cells obtained from muscle …
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futureUS Army improving the regrowth of bone, muscle and skin

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January 2, 2018 | brian wang |
 
US Army researchers are using fillers to bridge the gap in damaged bones, hoping to figuratively bridge the gap between current regenerative techniques and the ideal: people regrowing lost limbs. Stephanie Shiels with the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research, …
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medicineEngineered Stem Cells repaired spinal cords in 5 out of 12 Rats

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December 14, 2017 | brian wang |
 
Engineered human stem cells have been used to enable paraplegic rats to walk independently and regain sensory perception. The implanted rats had some healing in their spinal cords. Led by Dr. Shulamit Levenberg, of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, the …
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