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  Canadian-Korean girl, 2, is youngest ever to get windpipe grown from her own stem cells

  A 2-year-old girl born without a windpipe now has a new one grown from her own stem cells, the youngest patient in the world to benefit from the experimental treatment.

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  Canadian clinic first in country to harvest stem cells derived from body fat

  Wishing that stubborn ring of belly fat would just disappear? Think twice about willing it away completely. Physicians at a Toronto clinic now consider it biological insurance that can be stored for a rainy day.

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  Ontario man’s sight restored with help of stem cells

  When Taylor Binns slowly began going blind because of complications with his contact lenses, he started to prepare for living the rest of his life without vision. But an innovative treatment using stem cells has changed all that, and returned to him the gift of sight.

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  Stem cell donations effective in restoring heart tissue: study

  Researchers are reporting a key advance in using stem cells to repair hearts damaged by heart attacks. In a study, stem cells donated by strangers proved as safe and effective as patients' own cells for helping restore heart tissue.

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  Stem cells reverse chemo-induced infertility in monkeys

  Scientists have long been searching for a way to preserve fertility in young boys left unable to father a child later in life after being treated for childhood cancer. That's because chemotherapy and radiation can destroy the stem cells in the testes that give rise to sperm with the onset of puberty.

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  Stem cells restore hearing in deaf gerbils, 1st step to human tests

  Researchers have restored the ability to hear in deaf gerbils using implanted human embryonic stem cells, achieving what they call a first step in potentially overcoming some causes of hearing loss in people.