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Duke Has Quietly Discontinued a Costly, Unproven Autism Treatment
“What’s their responsibility? They’ve led people down this trail of hope.”
Watch an 'Artificial Fish' Made of Human Heart Muscle Swim
The faux-fish swam for 108 days and could pave the way toward a working artificial heart for transplants.
A Controversial Autism Treatment Is About to Become a Very Big Business
Duke University and a private company have been selling access to unproven cord blood treatments for autism. Now, they’re planning something much bigger.
Researchers Create Perfect Blood Vessels in a Petri Dish for the First Time
The researchers also demonstrated that it is possible to grow functioning human blood vessels in another species.
Lab-Grown Mini-Brains Spontaneously Produced ‘Human-Like’ Brain Waves for the First Time
The electrical activity of the lab-grown mini-brains was similar to that seen in premature infants and may help researchers understand brain development disorders.
This 3D Human 'Mini-Brain' Is Made of Stem Cells and Can Live For Months
Biologists from Tufts University have fine-tuned an environment for 3D test tube “mini-brains” so that they can function like a living nervous system for months.
Biologists Grew a Human Retina in a Dish
These “organoids” help scientists understand how color vision develops in the eye’s cells.
Scientists Just Made Human Egg Cells from Human Blood for the First Time
It’s the first step toward being able to mass produce human eggs using other people’s body tissues or blood.
Scientists Found Cancer-Causing DNA in Stem Cells Given to Patients
These unlucky people were enrolled in clinical trials, not clients at shady clinics.
Stem Cell Clinics Are Ruining People's Lives
Patients are promised revolutionary therapy, only to find they’ve wasted their money—or worse.
The Life-Saving Treatment That’s Being Thrown In The Trash
Umbilical cord blood can be used to treat or cure more than 80 conditions.