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A South Korean court on Monday found disgraced stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk guilty of fraud in a case that sent shockwaves throughout the scientific community. Hwang, once a scientist with rock-star like status in South Korea for his research that...
Tags: stem cells, Hwang Woo-Suk, Dr Hwang, South Korean, Hwang Woo-suk, scientific community, korean court, cells researcher, national hero
A California researcher who uses embryonic stem cells to investigate the causes of Alzheimer's Disease will urge the University of Nebraska Board of Regents to allow NU researchers to use additional embryonic stem cell lines to be approved under new federal...
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You know that fat in your body you wish you didn't have? It turns out those cells could be used to create stem cells that one day may be able to cure disease. Scientists at Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered that the millions of fat...
Tags: stem cells, Dr. Michael Longaker, Stanford University, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford's School of Medicine, liposuction leftovers, skin cells, pluripotent stem, induced pluripotent, cells researcher
LONDON: British scientists claimed Wednesday to have created human sperm from embryonic stem cells for the first time, an accomplishment they say may someday help infertile men father children. The technique could in 10 years allow researchers to use...
Tags: stem cells, embryonic stem, human embryonic, human sperm, cells researcher, Karim Nayernia
South Korea on Wednesday conditionally lifted a ban on stem cell research using human eggs, three years after outlawing the practice because a scientist was found to have falsified his work. The national committee on bioethics said it agreed to approve...
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For all the past week's headlines about embryonic stem cells' medical promise there is a sobering reality: The science to prove that promise will take years, probably too long for many of today's seriously ill. On his desk at Children's Hospital Boston,...
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Stem cells are unspecialised cells that have the potential to develop into different types of cells such as muscle cell or brain cell or red blood cell and have the ability to divide and renew themselves over long periods. Scientists are currently working...
Tags: stem cells, Barack Obama, cells researcher, embryonic stem, federal funding
Stem-cell researchers and advocates are hailing this move as a huge step forward for stem-cell research. Bush’s executive order in 2001 allowed for continued research on 16 existing stem-cell lines, but according to UW-Madison professor of visual sciences...
Tags: stem cells, Barack Obama, cells researcher, embryonic stem, federal funding
UW-Madison stem-cell researcher James Thomson has merged the three businesses he established into one, Cellular Dynamics International, and has obtained $18 million in financing for what is now a 50-employee company. Cellular Dynamics, founded in 2004,...
Tags: stem cells, Cellular Dynamics International, Star UW-Madison, cells companies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, CDI, madison stem, cells researcher, James Thomson (cell biologist)
April 20, 2008 San Diego's four largest research institutes plan to build the nation's first-of-its-kind stem cell center, which scientists have dubbed a “collaboratory,” in La Jolla. In a proposed $115 million building to be built near the Torrey Pines...
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