It's a scientific breakthrough that's been hailed 'remarkable' by biology experts. For the first time ever, artificial eggs have been grown in a laboratory petri dish with stem cells, and used to create breathing, living animals. The stem cell marvel, if it's compatible with humans, could assist more hopeful women in becoming happy mothers. Though all women are born with eggs, conceiving a child becomes much more difficult with age, as the eggs grow old with the host. Women who are innately born with fewer eggs than average, and women whose ovaries have ceased releasing eggs altogether would also benefit from the technique. The eggs and resulting embryos created through stem cells would be brand new, meaning women would not only be able to give birth, but to a potentially healthier baby. Amazingly, the [...]

It's a premise right out of the X-Men universe. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services who oversees biomedical and health-related research, recently announced they'll lift a moratorium on funding for controversial stem cell research. This unprecedented move is under scrutiny because it'll open the door for federal funding towards taking human stem cells and adding them to animal embryos. Manufacturing these part-human, part-animal organisms or 'chimeras' will be an ethically reviewed study, but may ultimately be permitted. Carrie D. Wolinetz, NIH's associate director for science, posted a blog asking the public for their opinion on expanding this questionable area of stem cell research, moving towards an end of the moratorium on experimentation. "I am confident that these proposed changes will enable the NIH [...]

It's the first time this has happened in the past 50 years. No, it wasn't Paul McCartney performing 'A Hard Day's Night' and 'Love Me Do' in concert (though that did finally happen after half a century of stubbornness). The discovery is sound-related though: acoustic experts have created a new class of sound wave for the first time in over 50 years. These sound waves don't have implications in music, but is making noise in stem cell therapy. Researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, pooled two different types of acoustic sound waves bulk waves and surface waves to create the crossbreed 'surface reflected bulk waves'. This hybrid wave is powerful, but soft enough to be used in biomedical devices. How does this affect stem cell research? The idea is to implement the waves [...]

THE ART OF STEM CELLS: DRAWING CARTILAGE WITH 3D PRINTING PENS If you're suffering from a particularly crippling case of arthritis, current remedies at your disposal include various forms of therapy, injection therapy or complete joint replacement surgery. Injection therapy is a form of regenerative medicine, one that is offered at our RegenerVate clinics and can successfully delay joint replacement surgeries. A new stem cell research and technology breakthrough has hinted that it may soon be possible to skip surgeries like this altogether. WHAT IS THE BIOPEN AND HOW IS IT USED? A prototype for a new 3D printing pen has been conceptualized, allowing doctors to draw human stem cells into any injury site, accelerating bone or cartilage regeneration. If the pen becomes a commonly used tool in operating rooms, it could eliminate the [...]