In individual cases that we have found, turns out that those children most of the time will have had a marker of some type that we stem back and say, ah, that's the autism cause and etiology versus vaccines.

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McKay and his colleagues used embryonic stem cells to create a particular type of neuron that can be used to treat a model of Parkinson's disease in mice.

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In one instance a doctor successfully cured a mouse of type 1 diabetes by transplanting umbilical cord stem cells into the animal's pancreas.

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Polls show that a strong majority of Americans support some type of initiative to stem gun violence.

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They believe a single type of cell may be cancer's main growth engine:mutant stem cells that, though barely present, spawn other cells that then spark growth.

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They used stem cells from a human embryo, which are capable of becoming any other type of cell in the human body from nerve to skin, muscle to kidney.

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He was part of a team investigating the use of stem cells, which are able to become any other type of cell in the body from nerve to bone, taken from the amniotic fluid which surrounds a developing foetus in the womb.

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They took a sample of human skin cells and converted it into stem cells, which are capable of becoming any other type of cell in the body.

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