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NEWCASTLE, England, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- Cultured stem cells from eyes helped improve the sight of eight patients with Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency, a painful, blinding disease, British doctors said.
Researchers have investigated the potential of RXR ligands for the treatment of Parkinson's disease. Writing in the open-access journal BMC Neuroscience the scientists describe the use of two cellular models of Parkinsonian damage to explore the neuroprotective function of the two RXR ligands LG268 and XCT.
The world faces some interesting choices in the next few years. As illustrated by the ongoing Copenhagen negotiations, we have to decide whether and how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in a wide range of sectors, from energy generation to transportation and beyond.
Kornberg Associates | Architects has converted part of an existing building , including a previously unused covered open area, into an innovative stem cell core facility for the University of California, Riverside.
More and more parents are saving their children's cord blood. For that reason, the largest cord blood bank in the country is in Tucson.
Ethan Zohn 's battle with cancer has taken a positive turn. The Survivor: Africa winner received a full-body PET scan on Tuesday in Manhattan and learned that -- for the first time since he was diagnosed with Stage 2 Hodgkin's disease in April -- there are no active cancer cells in his body, People reported Thursday.
DURHAM, N.C., Dec. 10 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they discovered how stem cells in a type of malignant brain cancer resist radiation, and then used a drug to reduce that resistance.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — An anti-abortion group filed suit in federal court Thursday accusing Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan and Auditor Susan Montee of conspiring against its proposed ballot initiatives.
Title: Mini-Transplants Reverse Adult Sickle Cell Disease Category: Health News Created: 12/10/2009 10:37:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 12/10/2009 10:37:32 AM
Biotechnology company ThermoGenesis Corp. said Thursday it named a longtime health care executive to its board.
Juan Martinez Matos, the man charged with murdering 19-year-old Puerto Rican gay teen Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado (pictured), was deemed too incapacitated to speak at a pretrial court appearance Wednesday and has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Nanotechnology company NanoPacific Holdings said this week that it has exclusively licensed a suite of supramolecular nanoparticle technologies from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Harvard University will halt construction of a science center in Allston after completing the building's foundation, while it reassesses future development options. The announcement, which had been expected, was made Thursday in a letter to the Allston community from Harvard President Drew Faust. She wrote the decision to pause construction of the state-of-the-art facility was made earlier ...
A groundbreaking discovery two years ago that turned ordinary skin cells back into an embryonic or "pluripotent" state was hailed as the solution to the controversial ethical question that has plagued stem-cell science for the past decade.But is it the solution? Or have iPS cells (induced pluripotent stem cells) simply added a new dimension to the legal, social and ethical debates that are an ...
A gene which is essential for stem cells' capabilities to become any cell type has been identified by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of California, San Francisco.The discovery represents a further step in the ever-expanding field of understanding the ways in which stem cells develop into specific cells, a necessary prelude towards the use of stem cell ...
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