This year he showed how, by injecting the cells into a matrix made from silica nanotubes wrapped in a sol-gel, he was able to keep a cell alive for six months.

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Stem cell research is alive and well at a host of small companies and academic laboratories in the United States.

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At the end of two years, 22% of non-small-cell lung cancer patients who received Avastin with their chemotherapy were alive, compared to 17% who received only chemotherapy.

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But Brent Reynolds and Sam Weiss at Neurospheres, a Canadian biotechnology company, have shown that they are still alive and well in adults, and that they can be prompted to recreate lost cell populations.

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Moreover, the creature is powered by four D-cell batteries in the main compartment, plus a pair of cells in each foot to keep the jive alive.

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