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Discovery of Bar-Ilan University: Placental cells for natural addiction treatment

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Stem cells derived from the placenta are able to reach damaged tissues in the brains of drug addicts and initiate a rehabilitation process in them. The innovative treatment may solve one of the most difficult challenges in the field of detoxification: the difficulty of addicts to detach from the memory that brings them back again and again to the drug
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The very first program to create an embryo by creating artificial embryonic and placental stem cells

By creating artificial embryonic and placental stem cells and comparing them, the researchers from the Hebrew University identified about 14,000 sites in the genome that control the development of all the organs of the fetus
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The superpower of a newborn fetus

How can cells be returned to their initial and most powerful state?
The hourglass of the fetus - a proposal for a hypothesis submitted by the scientists to the scientific journal Cell. "A deep understanding of embryonic development requires consideration of the time dimension." Courtesy of the Weizmann Institute

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The wonderful world where the first embryonic cells are formed is now more accessible to us than ever before
Professor Lior Gepstein. Photo: Technion spokespeople

Israeli-Canadian development: a new biological pacemaker

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fall asleep and wake up. VZV viruses (painted green) inside fibers of nerve cells. Photo courtesy of Prof. Ron Goldstein, Bar-Ilan University

uproot the scab from the stem

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In experiments conducted on mice, the cell transplantation completely stopped the epileptic seizures in about half of the mice, and the other half saw a dramatic decrease in the frequency and intensity of the seizures. Photo: shutterstock

cells against epilepsy

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Prof. Shokrat Mitilifov, the Medical-Scientific University of Oregon, was the first to succeed in cloning an embryo carrying the genetic load of a specific patient - in this case, an eight-year-old boy suffering from a rare genetic disease. Photo: OHSU

Human cloning at last: a stem cell of a specific patient was obtained for the first time in history through cloning

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Dr. Yaakov Hana, Weizmann Institute

Dr. Yaakov Hana from the Weizmann Institute, one of the Krill Prize winners: The prizes give me energy to continue research

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Stem cells. Photo: Technion

The Technion researchers discovered that the amniotic membrane cells of a fetus can be a source of human eggs

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Prof. Michel Rebel at the Life Sciences Baltics 2012 conference. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

Prof. Michel Rebel at the Life Sciences Baltics 2012 conference: "Stem cells can be used to restore the pancreatic islets of diabetic patients"

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Republican Party candidate Mitt Romney and Vice President candidate Paul Ryan at the party convention held in Tampa Florida in late August 2012. From Wiki-News. Originally from Flickr, CC license

Republican Party Platform: Curbing the Environmental Protection Agency, withdrawing from manned space flights

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US President Barack Obama, from his election website

Washington Court of Appeals: Federal funding for embryonic stem cell research legal

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Cross section of placenta. From Wikipedia

For the first time in the world - stem cells from the placenta saved the life of a cancer patient at Hadassah Hospital

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From the right: PhD student Shai Meltzer and Dr. Eran Meshorer from the Department of Genetics at the Institute of Life Sciences at the Hebrew University

Researchers from the Hebrew University have identified the mechanisms that allow embryonic stem cells to become any cell in the human body

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Prof. Lior Gepstein, courtesy of Rambam spokespersons

The Technion researchers for the first time turned patients' skin cells into heart muscle cells in order to repair a damaged heart

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A colony of stem cells (in the center, in green), surrounded by nerve cells (in red). Photo: Weizmann Institute

Nature's emergency room

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Human stem cells take the form of an embryo. Illustration: Nadav Sharon

Scientists from the Hebrew University have shown for the first time how embryos develop their shape

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Prof. Shinya Yamanka

Ten Wolf Prize winners were announced, including the pioneers of stem cells and the developers of the electron microscope

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Prof. David Gavol and Prof. Shmuel (Shapilka) Rosenblatt

A new method for creating induced stem cells

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Stem cells are grown on a synthetic medium. Photo: MIT

An effective method for growing stem cells has been developed

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Prof. Bracha Reger, and the Minister Prof. Avishai Braverman at an Ort event

Science and law in favor of the desire to be a parent

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Stem cells that then differentiate into all cell types

Stem cells with problematic memory

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Figure 4 Aggregates of human embryonic stem cells in suspension. Courtesy of Prof. Benjamin Raubinoff and Dr. Deborah Steiner

Umbilical cord blood: a promise at dawn

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Figure 3 Culture of human embryonic stem cells growing on a substrate of mouse-derived fibroblast cells. The substrate cells are tens of times larger than the embryonic stem cells. Photographed with a light microscope at 20x magnification. Courtesy of Prof. Nissim Benvanisti, The Hebrew University

Stem cells in the service of medicine

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