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Australians clinics are offering stem-cell-based anti-ageing and cosmetic therapies that have not been clinically tested. Here’s what we need to do to ensure consumers don’t get ripped off, or worse.
We have developed a new stem cell technique capable of regenerating any human tissue damaged by injury, disease or ageing.
Current clinical trials testing stem cell therapies for a number of diseases are going on in the US, Europe, Canada, Japan and elsewhere, but not in Australia.
Face transplants are one of the great leaps forward of 21st-century medicine. But soon they may not be necessary.
Hormones may not be the only thing that determines how your organs act.
Stem cell research underway in South Africa is the first step to understanding how mutations cause a retinal disease and whether repairing the defect in the cell may reverse the disease process.
At the nexus of medical science, engineering, computer science and 3D printing is the biofabricator, a new career for the 21st century.
The theory that some rare cancer cells aren’t caught by conventional chemotherapy has divided the field.
A novel molecule has been used to target stem cells to damaged tissues within the body, allowing more efficient cell therapy for the treatment of arthritis, Crohn’s, cardiovascular disease and MS
Once thought to be a problem only in poorly regulated jurisdictions overseas, unproven stem cell treatments are increasingly being offered in Australia. Now, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA…
Skeletal muscle is the tissue that makes our bodies move in a voluntary way, so we can walk, run, and breath. This tissue is generated and maintained by a population of specialised stem-like cells called…
People with life-threatening or incurable diseases may be willing to try experimental drugs and unproven treatments, but they face the risk of exploitation. Is the law the best avenue to ensure that they…
Stem cell tourism is when people travel to another country to receive treatments unavailable to them at home. It exists chiefly because most stem cell “treatments” are unproven and not readily available…
Stem cells from teeth have the capacity to develop into complex neurons, and could provide assistance in the treatment of…
Stem cell and cloning research using human cells remain controversial, even though it is nearly 20 years since Dolly the sheep became the first mammal to be cloned. One of the main reasons for this controversy…
Neuroscientists found the “off switch” for nerve cell formation, advancing the possibility of brain cell regeneration. The…
Brigham and Women’s Hospital researchers in the US have found that synthetic silicate nanoplatelets induce stem cells to…
The 2012 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology has been awarded to John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka, “for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent”. A pluripotent cell…
“Molecular beacons”, which light up when they bind to mRNA, allow scientists to watch stem cells as they turn into tissue…
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Professor - Emerging Technologies (Stem Cells) at The University of Melbourne and Group Leader - Stem Cell Ethics & Policy at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Bioethics, Monash University & Honorary fellow, Melbourne Law School, Monash University
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Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Professor and Former Program Leader of Stem Cells Australia, The University of Melbourne
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Theme Director, Cell Biology, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Emeritus Robert Reford Professor and Professor of Medicine, McGill University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, Law, Western Sydney University
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Law lecturer & doctoral student, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Digital Ethics, Centre for AI and Digital Ethics, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
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Professor and Director, Centre for Genetic Diseases, Monash Institute of Medical Research, Monash University
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Graduate Student in Cancer Systems Biology, Rice University
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Research Fellow in Sociology, Monash University
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Executive Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science and Director of the Intelligent Polymer Research Institute, University of Wollongong
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Deputy Director, The Ritchie Centre, Monash University
