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• Amniotic fluid supplies "repair kit" for later life.

  - 2007-01-16

  Jan 16, 2007 (New Scientist - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Scientists have discovered stem cells in amniotic fluid surrounding infants in the womb. Anthony Atala, head of the team that isolated the amniotic fluid-derived stem AFS cells, at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem,...

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• Cancer-resistant mice discovered.

  - 2006-05-09

  Byline: Deborah Smith May 09, 2006 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Some mouse immune cells possess an amazing ability to destroy cancers, according to exciting US research. A team at Wake Forest University has discovered a line of mice...

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• Cancer hope as mice repel virulent cells.

  - 2006-05-09

  Byline: Deborah Smith May 09, 2006 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Some mouse immune cells possess an amazing ability to destroy cancers, according to exciting US research. A team at Wake Forest University has discovered a line of mice that are...

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• WFU team logs success growing organs from patients' cells

  - 2006-05-01

  WINSTON-SALEM -- Bio-engineered bladders grown from young patients' own cells have improved recipients' health and quality of life, according to a report by a renowned Wake Forest University specialist in an early-April issue of The Lancet. Anthony Atala, M.D., director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest...

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• Grow your own

  - 2005-07-01

  Tony Atala is on the hot seat, though he's fielding easy questions. He struggles to recall he's 46, was born in South America and grew up mostly in Boca Raton, Fla. Asked when he got his bachelor's from the University of Miami, he tilts his eyes toward a spot near...

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