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Tissue regeneration debate continues to grow
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(By Guo Nei)--Famous Chinese scientist Xu Rongxiang has sparkled hot debate among colleagues with his announcement on Saturday that he will be able to regenerate and replicate any tissue or organ in the human body within five
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Xu said at a press conference that all 206 tissues and organs in the human body can be regenerated inside or outside the body by stimulating certain potential regenerative cells, and that he could do this in five years. He said he based his findings on his suc
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CDC: Milk from mom gave baby West Nile
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ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- A Michigan infant with the West Nile virus probably got it from the breast milk of his infected mother, federal health officials said Thursday.
The child is healthy and his mother is recovering, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. The CDC said it was virtually certain the virus came from breast milk, though there is no way to be 100 percent positive.
Doctors stressed that breast milk is the healthiest food for babies and that mothers shouldn'
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Kidney recipient dies after positive West Nile test
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BALTIMORE, Maryland (AP) -- A Maryland woman who received a kidney transplant last month died after testing positive for the West Nile virus, state health officials said.
The source of the infection is unclear, however, because initial tests for the virus on the organ donor were negative, the state Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said Wednesday.
The woman, who died Tuesday at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, was 55 and from St. Mary's County. Officials would not release h
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