Topic: Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center

Laser acupuncture may help bedwetters: study

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Acupuncture using a laser beam might help young bedwetters break the nighttime habit, according to a new study from Turkey.The results show that "laser acupuncture therapy which is noninvasive, painless, short-term therapy with low cost can be ...

Scientists grow viable urethras from boys' cells

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Researchers have used patients' own cells to grow urinary tubes in the lab and have successfully used them to replace damaged tissue in five young boys, showing the potential power of cell-based therapies.Urine flow tests and tube diameter measurements ...
A mechanical strap-on cap worn during chemotherapy may one day keep cancer patients from losing their hair.. . Four patients here in the U.S. are...
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Scientists who created functioning miniature livers say their success is an early, but important, advance in the quest to grow replacement human livers in the laboratory.. "We are excited about the possibilities this research represents, but must stress that we're at ...
Tweet . Let's just say it's a good thing this breakthrough didn't come around when I was in my early twenties, or I may have been tempted to spend a little more time at my favorite neighborhood watering hole. Scientists ...

First whole human liver built in lab

The breakthrough, reported this week at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases in Boston, is a step towards making livers big enough for transplants in humans.. "We are the first to engineer a whole liver ...
Research presented at Sunday's American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases in Boston marked a preliminary but potentially groundbreaking development in the search for the lab-engineered organs of the future. Scientists at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest ...
A protein that eliminates iron from cells could be used to slow the growth of cancerous tumors, to treat breast cancer, and to predict the outcome for breast cancer patients, a study published Wednesday found.Researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical ...

8 Sneaky Memory Thieves

Sure, you blank on a name now and then, and sometimes you can't remember where you put your keys. "You can build up your brain, just like a muscle," says Stephen Kritchevsky, PhD, director of the Sticht Center on Aging at ...