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Latest news reveals that very rapid and involuntary movements of the eye, can help in studying the level of consciousness in coma, anesthesia and a range of neurological disorders.

Les McLaughlin is 50 and a patient of paraplegics. He had lost his power of legs in an accident way back in 1999. But that can not prevent him from braving the Rocky Mountains, torrential downpours and the boredom of the road in the hopes of raising enough funding to further research into the regeneration [...]

In a dramatic display of stem cells’ potential for healing, a team of Johns Hopkins scientists reports that they’ve engineered new, completed, fully-working motor neuron circuits — neurons stretching from spinal cord to target muscles — in paralyzed adult animals.
The research, in which mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells were injected into rats whose virus-damaged spinal [...]

BioEden (registered with the FDA), is the first fully operational processing laboratory and storage bank for primary teeth stem cells to open in the U.S. Their state-of-the-art facilities are located in Austin, Texas, and will serve children and their families nationwide. BioEden is also the only cell storage facility willing to guarantee their services.
The stem [...]

What is cord blood banking?
Cord blood banking is storing the umbilical cord blood taken from the baby’s umbilical cord (which is normally discarded anyway). It can be stored in private cord blood banks (paid for) or government cord blood banks (normally free).
h2>Why is umbilical cord blood stored?
The umbilical cord blood is a rich source [...]

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have identified an important mechanism that regulates how many new cells are produced by each intestinal stem cell.
It has long been known that the new cells are often formed by immature cells known as stem cells, but the mechanism regulating the number of new cells produced has remained something of [...]