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Published Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500

Description: Researchers fused skin cells with donated human eggs to create human embryos that were genetically identical to the person who provided the skin cells.

Published Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500

Description: A researcher in the Netherlands wants to show the world - including potential donors - that in-vitro meat is a reality.

Published Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500

Description: Doctors have built and implanted a windpipe, developed with plastic fibers and human cells, in a 2½-year-old girl - the youngest person ever to receive a bioengineered organ.

Published Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500

Description: Stem-cell face-lifts are stirring a debate, with the procedures called fat grafting by some doctors, but youth restoring by others.

Published Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Description: Shinya Yamanaka and John B. Gurdon, the two scientists who were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday, helped lay the foundation for regenerative medicine.

Published Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Description: What Governor Romney's choices tell us about the man who wants to be president.

Published Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Description: A surgeon is working on a different method of organ regeneration, so far only in animals - using another part of the body to nourish the replacement as it grows and is ready for transplanting.

Published Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Description: PITTSBURGH -- In the months after a roadside bomb in Afghanistan blew off part of his left thigh, Sgt. Ron Strang wondered if he would ever be able to walk normally again. The explosion and subsequent rounds of surgery left Sergeant Strang, 28, a Marine, with a huge divot in his upper thigh where the quadriceps muscle had been. He could move the leg backward, but with so much of the muscle gone he could not kick it forward. He could walk, but only awkwardly.

Published Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Description: Researchers are using extracellular matrix, a natural scaffolding that underlies all tissues and organs, from animals to engineer the growth of replacement tissue like limb muscle lost in injuries.

Published Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Description: Tissue engineers have succeeded in making artificial organs that use a patient's cells to become a living part of the body, with hope for eventual organ regeneration.