Archive for the ‘Stem Cell Research’ Category
Monday, August 11th, 2008
Harvard Stem Cell Institute researcher George Q. Daley, MD, PhD, also associate director of the Stem Cell Program at Children's Hospital Boston, and HSCI colleagues Konrad Hochedlinger and Chad Cowan have produced a robust new collection of disease-specific stem cell lines, all of which were developed using the new ...
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
US researchers have found a way to produce immortal cell strains and tissue types from diseased patients by converting their cells into pluripotent stem cells with the same genetic errors. The new cell lines will enable scientists to investigate ten different genetic disorders like Parkinson's, muscular dystrophy, and type ...
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences recently awarded an $8.9 million grant to a team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison to investigate the "fundamental power" of human embryonic stem cells, as well as cells that have been "reprogrammed" to function like embryonic stem cells, the Milwaukee Journal ...
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
Epithelial cells cover all internal and external surfaces of the body. They have an upper and a lower side, which have different functions. Until now, scientists assumed that these two poles develop in all epithelial cells in the same manner - irrespective of whether they are located in the heart, ...
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
Scientists in the US have converted skin cells from an 82-year-old woman with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) into stem cells that formed motor neurons with the same genetic make up as the patient. The breakthrough opens the possibility of modelling a patient's specific disease outside of the patient, to improve ...
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, has expanded its Thermo Scientific Stem Cell ExcellenceTM program, providing new tools and technologies to advance the stem cell research process. The expanded Stem Cell Excellence portfolio now includes Thermo Scientific HyClone AdvanceSTEM™ reagents, kits and stem cell lines, as ...
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
Over the past two decades, stem cell transplantation has evolved from being an experimental treatment to one that is a viable option for patients with hematologic (blood) malignancies and other life-threatening blood disorders. Researchers and clinicians at the Adult Blood and Marrow Stem Cell Transplantation Program at The Cancer Center ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
It is "easy" to say Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.) have different views on "when life begins, use of stem cells and abortion," but the presidential candidates often are "addressing very different, but related, beginning-of-life issues," Thomas Marino, a professor of anatomy and cell biology at Temple ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
Australia's regenerative medicine company, Mesoblast Limited (ASX:MSB)(PINK:MBLTY), today announced that the United States Patent and Trade Mark Office (USPTO) has granted a key patent, US Patent 7,399,632, through to at least the year 2019. In conjunction with the company's composition-of-matter patent granted in 2007, US Patent 7,122,178, this new patent ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
Stem cell researchers at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine are ready to enroll patients in another breakthrough study aimed at treating heart failure. They have received approval from the Food and Drug Administration for a study using a Helical Infusion catheter system to inject stem cells ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
To provide researchers and companies with insight into stem cell research funding opportunities and an overview of the application process for stem cell research in Maryland, the Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission (Commission) recently hosted two informational sessions at the Montgomery County campus of Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and the ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Research by Dr Amy Wagers and her team at Harvard University, USA, has shown promise for the use of muscle stem cell as a therapy for conditions such as muscular dystrophy. The researchers successfully transplanted muscle stem cells from healthy mice into the muscles of mice that show symptoms similar ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
A Michigan organization, the Stem Cell Research Ballot Question Committee, said it had filed more than 570,000 signatures in support of a ballot initiative to loosen state restrictions on human embryonic stem cell research, the AP/Google.com reports. According to the AP/Google.com, more than 380,000 of the signatures must be ruled ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
The Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund (MSCRF) will hold two informational sessions to provide insight on ways for applicants to increase their chances of receiving state-supported stem cell research funding. The event will include an overview of the application process, various speakers, a question and answer session and networking. ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
The mature heart is composed by different cell types, including contractile cardiac cells, vascular cells, smooth muscle cells as well as pacemaker cells. During embryonic development as well as during embryonic stem cell differentiation, the different cardiovascular cell types arise from the differentiation of multipotent cardiovascular progenitors. The mechanism that ...
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