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Doctors transplant windpipe with stem cells (AP)

AP - Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. "This technique has great promise," said Dr. Eric Genden, who did a similar transplant in 2005 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. That operation used both donor and recipient tissue. Only a handful of windpipe, or trachea, transplants have ever been done.

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PTC Announces Data Showing That PTC124 Causes Statistically Significant Improvements In Chloride Channel Function In Cystic Fibrosis Patients

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Listen to The Lancet: 04 October

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Medtech Startups, December 2007

New medical technologies represented in companies added (December 2007) to the Medtech Startups Database and/or added to the December 2007 issue of MedMarkets.

The following are brief technology descriptions for companies newly added to the MedMarket Diligence Medtech Startups Database and/or covered in MedMarkets Startups during the month of December:

EEG analysis for applications such as detection and prediction of seizure.
Drugs targeting inflammatory and metabolic pathways, including obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
In vivo transdifferentiation to regenerate ischemic or diseased organs.
Developing small molecule drugs to reprogram adult stem cells.
Orthopedic devices for pediatric and other small stature patients.
Devices and apparatus for insertion of flexible implants (e.g. breast implants, others).
Implantable devices; e.g., to prevent cerebrospinal fluid leaks.
Minimally invasive spinal instrumentation.
Intra-operative 3D imaging for earlier diagnosis of breast cancer.

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For details on the Medtech Startups Database, see link.

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[Pharmacology] Leptin-enhanced neointimal hyperplasia is reduced by mTOR and PI3K inhibitors

Despite the use of the sirolimus (rapamycin) drug-eluting coronary stent, diabetics are at increased risk of developing in-stent restenosis for...

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