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Researchers announced Tuesday the beginning of a FDA-approved clinical trial that uses umbilical cord blood stem cells to ‘cure’ autism. Dr. Michael Chez, director of pediatric neurology at Sutter Neuroscience Institute in Sacramento, Calif., said he and his colleagues have been processing the trial for more than a year now, and they have high hopes it will succeed.

A biomedical gerontologist and chief scientist of a foundation dedicated to longevity research, de Grey reckons that within his own lifetime doctors could have all the tools they need to "cure" aging -- banishing diseases that come with it and extending life indefinitely.

A gene in algae may make it possible to cure blindness in humans.

Scientists in Newcastle use a stem cell technique to repair the vision of a man partially blinded in an ammonia attack.

People looking for natural cures will be happy to know there is one. Two words explain how it works: "I believe."