The first human trial of a treatment using induced pluripotent stem cells has received conditional approval from an institutional review board in Japan.
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The highest court in the country has declined to hear an appeal regarding the federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research, allowing such spending to continue.
After undergoing untested cosmetic surgery that uses stem cells to rejuvenate skin, a woman grew bone fragments in the flesh around one of her eyes.
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