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Change may allow scientists to grow human embryos longer

LONDON — New guidelines released Wednesday remove a decades-old barrier to stem cell research, recommending that researchers be allowed to grow human embryos longer under limited conditions. The “14-day rule,” an international ethical standard that limits laboratory studies of human embryos, has been in place for decades and has been written into law in countries […]

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A transgender man may become the first to receive a penis transplant. Doctors say it would be a ‘quantum leap’ for surgical medicine.

Surgeons are looking to perform the world's first-ever penis transplant on a transgender man.  Dr. Curtis Cetrulo, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital, told MedPage Today it would be a "quantum leap" for surgery.  Only a handful of successful penis transplants have ever been performed on cisgender men who have lost their […]