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First Patients Shown to Improve with Embryonic Stem Cells

A microscopic view shows a colony of human embryonic stem cells (light blue) growing on fibroblasts (dark blue) in this handout photo released to Reuters by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, March 9, 2009.
Before treatment, the 51-year-old graphic artist was legally blind, unable to read a single letter on a standard eye chart. She has suffered from Stargardt's disease, the most common form of macular degeneration in young patients, since she was a teenager, and it was getting progressively worse.
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Office Depot Tests PayPal's New Point-of-Sale System

Office Depot Inc., the second-largest U.S. office-supply retailer, is testing PayPal's new point-of-sale (POS) system in a few stores, a top executive told Reuters. The news comes a few days after eBay Inc.'s PayPal unit said it had begun testing in-store payments in 51 Home Depot stores.
Heidi Klum at the AMA's 2011

Supermodel Heidi Klum to Divorce Singer Seal: Report

German supermodel Heidi Klum plans to divorce her husband of more than six years, British singer Seal, according to a TMZ report. Klum, 38, will reportedly file divorce papers early next week in Los Angeles County Superior Court, citing irreconcilable differences.
A Woman with a Cup of Coffee

Coffee and Diabetes: Four Cups of Joe Reduce Chances of the Disease

Here's how can reduce your chances of getting Type 2 diabetes: Drink four cups of joe a day. Epidemiologists noticed that people wired on coffee had a 50 percent reduction in adult-onset diabetes, but it wasn't until a Chinese group released a new study that suggested a molecular mechanism.

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