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Back to SearchWhat is an assembloid? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Brain organoids, cell collections grown in a lab to study diseases like Alzheimer’s, have created excitement because they are a bit more representati…
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What is an organoid? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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 colle…
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How do stem cells derived from blood differ from those from embryos? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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,…
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Stem cells are just the beginning when it comes to modeling your risk for Alzheimer’s disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Cells from your blood can be induced to return to what they looked like when you were an embryo, then can be made to develop into different cell type…
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What might reprogramming cells have to do with understanding Alzheimer’s? Elizabeth Tracey reports
A simple blood test may soon help precisely identify your risk for Alzheimer’s disease by inducing some of your cells to go back in time, looking lik…
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Caveat emptor when it comes to hormone therapy for menopause, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Hormone therapy for menopause has recently had a black box warning removed by the FDA, after the agency reexamined data originally prompting the warn…
2 months ago
What is the controversy around hormone therapy for menopause? Elizabeth Tracey reports
The FDA has recently removed black box warnings, indicating a medication is potentially risky, from hormone therapy for menopause. The warning was or…
2 months ago
Women need to exercise caution when it comes to hormones of all types, Elizabeth Tracey reports
If you’re a woman who’s experiencing a loss of libido, you may have been advised to take testosterone supplements, but Wen Shen, a menopause expert a…
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What are the benefits of hormone therapy for women in menopause and perimenopause? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Hormone therapy is not a panacea for everything that happens to a women transitioning through menopause, cautions Wen Shen, a menopause expert at Joh…
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What might the FDA’s removal of a black box warning on hormone therapy for menopause mean to you? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Certain hormone therapies for menopause have had black box warnings on them since 2003, following concerns arising from the Women’s Health Initiative…
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