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Brain organoids, cell collections grown in a lab to study diseases like Alzheimer’s, have created excitement because they are a bit more representative of a real brain. Johns Hopkins cell engineering expert Vasiliki Machairaki says there is another technique underway …
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Using induced stem cells helps create models for diseases like Alzheimer’s disease that can be studied in a lab, but now three dimensional cell collections called organoids can also be developed from stem cells. Vasiliki Machairaki, a cell engineering expert …
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Stem cells used to be derived from human embryos, but not anymore. Now a simple blood test can allow stem cells to be induced from cells found there, says Johns Hopkins cell engineering expert Vasiliki Machairaki. Machairaki: Induced pluripotent stem …
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Hormone therapy for menopause has recently had a black box warning removed by the FDA, after the agency reexamined data originally prompting the warning and found it flawed. Wen Shen, a menopause expert at Johns Hopkins, says women still need …
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The FDA has recently removed black box warnings, indicating a medication is potentially risky, from hormone therapy for menopause. The warning was originally put on in 2003 after a study seemed to show increased risks for cardiovascular disease, breast cancer …
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