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Stem Cell Transplantation Benefits Mice With Childhood Motor Neuron Disease Science Daily Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:16 PM PDT The motor neuron disease spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is the second most common genetic disorder leading to death in childhood. There is currently no cure for SMA, but some clinicians and researchers consider stem cell transplantation as a potential therapeutic strategy. And now, work using a mouse model of SMA suggests that spinal cord neural stem cells might be a possible treatment for ... Trio wants Lions Club to back stem cell research The Patriot-News Sun, 07 Sep 2008 8:47 PM PDT A researcher at Penn State University's College of Medicine at Hershey Medical Center, a neurologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and the Greater Lebanon Valley Lions Club are teaming up to teach some midstate residents about stem cell research. A Bioinformatic System Takes Adult Stem Cell Research To A New Level Medical News Today Sun, 07 Sep 2008 3:16 AM PDT Stem cell research is the next great leap in medicine. In the future, new tissue grown in a laboratory could replace a failing heart, or new cells take the place of damaged cells in the brain. Rather than using stem cells from embryonic sources, which opens difficult ethical and complicated scientific issues, scientists have been looking to adult human stem cells, culled from a person's own body.

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