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Technology Review - Fri Jul 17, 12:11 am ET
A startup aims to spur the body's native stem cells to heal disease.
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Science Daily - Fri Jul 17, 10:28 am ET
Neural stem cells represent the cellular backup of our brain. These cells are capable of self-renewal to form new stem cells or differentiate into neurons, astrocytes or oligodendrocytes. The receptors of the Notch family play a significant role in this process. So far, only stimulating extracellular ligands of Notch receptors had been described. Biochemists now describe a long time assumed but ...
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ThomasNet - Tue Jul 14, 8:44 am ET
According to Jim Greenwood, President and CEO of BIO, NIH's guidelines allow for federal funding of stem cell research, which is critical for enabling biotechnology companies to continue to develop products that are needed by patients. BIO believes that research on adult and embryonic stem cells holds promise to produce new therapies and possibly cures for cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's, ...
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Forbes - Thu Jul 16, 11:47 am ET
Science, funding and stem cell research.
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MedicineNet.com - Thu Jul 16, 3:23 pm ET
Title: Stem Cell Decision Opens New Doors, May Spur More Research Category: Health News Created: 7/16/2009 7:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 7/16/2009
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PR.com - Thu Jul 16, 6:29 pm ET
Cell Multiplication Controlled by a Surprising set of Genes. Stem cell researcher Dr. Ann Kiessling has discovered that early human embryo cells express CLOCK, and other circadian genes, that other human cells growing in laboratories did not. This was a surprise. According to Professor Jose Cibelli of Michigan State University, "This is a seminal paper. I am sure we will be referring back to it ...
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Ventura County Star - Mon Jul 13, 3:10 am ET
Ken Milles, 39, plays basketball with his 15-year-old son Tyler two weeks after Ken’s one-of-a-kind stem cell transplant after a heart attack. The Oak Park man, who plays sports with his sons, had stem cells harvested from healthy tissues in his heart then injected back into the organ at Cedars Sinai in Beverly Hills. One minute, Ken Milles was a guy who thought he had heartburn. The next, he ...
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WTHR Indianapolis - Wed Jul 15, 11:12 pm ET
A new treatment is putting a leash on canine arthritis using stem cells.
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BizJournals - Wed Jul 15, 1:43 pm ET
Madison stem cell firm Cellular Dynamics International Inc. said Wednesday it has licensed a pair of patents that will advance its effort to mass produce stem cell-derived cells for pharmaceutical companies.
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CNN - Tue Jul 14, 3:46 pm ET
This Caribbean city already known for cigars, furniture, chocolate and coffee may become a magnet for Americans seeking controversial stem cell therapy for life-threatening illnesses if a Florida cardiologist has his way.
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PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - Wed Jul 15, 9:34 am ET
NeoStem, Inc. , which is pioneering the pre-disease collection, processing and long-term storage of adult stem cells for future medical need, was featured on CBS2 News, New York City's local CBS station, on Monday evening July 13 and Tuesday morning July 14, 2009.
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New York Post - Wed Jul 15, 6:44 am ET
MEDICAL-RESEARCH insiders know that embryonic-stem-cell technol ogy is proving a dead end -- Dr. Bernadine Healy, a former director of the National Institutes of Health and once an ES-cell-research enthusiast, calls it "obsolete." But the Obama...
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Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Wed Jul 15, 12:00 pm ET
SAN ANTONIO----America Stem Cell, Inc. , www.americastemcell.com, announced today that the company has been awarded $2.5 million from the State of Texas Emerging Technology Fund , www.emergingtechfund.com.
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Journal of the American Medical Association - Tue Jul 14, 4:27 pm ET
Hematopoietic (blood-forming) stem cells are immature cells that develop into mature blood cells in the bone marrow (spongy center of bones where blood is formed), the bloodstream, or umbilical cord blood.
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PR.com - Thu Jul 16, 6:29 pm ET
Following President Barack Obama's decision to lift the ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, medical and scientific experts will converge at the University of Georgia to discuss how recent advances in stem cell research can be translated into cures for spinal cord injuries. The second Spinal Cord Workshop, a program of the Bedford Stem Cell Research Foundation, will be held ...