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Stories about: stem cell

Fighting Obesity with Brain Cells In a new study conducted on lab mice that were prone to becoming obese, researchers learned that transplanting immature nerve cells called neurons into the rodents' brains prevented the development of this dangerous condition. The investigation could have significant applications in reducing obesity throughout ... 25 November 2011 03:55 GMT Brain Tissue from Stem Cells Created in Japan Human stem cell research has been a controversial subject all around the globe for many years, because of the fact that the harvesting of viable stem cells has to be conducted on viable human embryos. Religious and anti-abortion groups say that this is a crime, as the embryos would have otherwise grown to become adul... 6 November 2008 13:41 GMT First Licensed Human Embryo Clones Will Be Australian Scientists were given green light by the Australian government, in order to obtain embryonic stem cells out of cloned human embryos. The license and 7.200 human eggs were granted to Sydney IVF, an in vitro fertilization company. Previously, the practice had been banned, but the ban was lifted in December 2006 by... 19 September 2008 07:14 GMT