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Report: Human stem cells cloned
Milwaukee :: WI :: USA | 4 days ago
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It's been 17 years since Dolly the sheep was cloned from a mammary cell. And now scientists applied the same technique to make the first embryonic stem cell lines from human skin cells. Ever since Ian Wilmut, an unassuming embryologist working at the
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Scientists grow bone substitutes from skin cells
New York City :: NY :: USA | 12 days ago
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Published May 07, 2013 FoxNews.com Scientists have discovered a way to transform skin cells into bone substitutes, which could potentially be used to repair larger bone defects, Nature World News reported. This advance is seen as a step toward being
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Yamanaka-led team takes aim at anemia with iPS cell breakthrough
Takamatsu :: Japan | 25 days ago
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A group of Japanese researchers said Tuesday that they have succeeded in creating a cell capable of helping to increase red blood cell count using induced pluripotent stem, or iPS, cells. The cell produces erythropoietin, a hormone that facilitates
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Cellectis, Stemgent to provide Genome-engineered iPS Cells
London :: United Kingdom | 2 months ago
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Under the partnership, both the companies will combine their expertise in cellular reprogramming to address the challenges around deriving non-viral, non-integrating, clinically-relevant induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells for use in regenerative
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National › Researchers close in on stem cell trial
Tōkyō :: Japan | 3 months ago
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Researchers in Japan have moved one step closer to clinical trials using adult stem cells in a therapy they hope will prove a cure for common sight problems. The ethics committee at the Institute for Biomedical Research and Innovation in Kobe, last
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Kyoto team generates kidney tissue from iPS cells
Kyōto :: Japan | 4 months ago
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A research team at Kyoto University has succeeded in generating kidney tissue from induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, for the first time ever. The accomplishment by the team led by Kenji Osafune, an associate professor at the university's
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Brain cells directly made from skin cells
Shanghai :: China | 4 months ago
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If the research can be applied to human therapy, it could result in new treatments for neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's, Huntington's and Alzheimer's. It would bypass existing approaches, which involve creation of stem cells that are
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Nicely Done: US Supreme Court Slaps Down Challenge to Embryonic Stem Cell Research
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 4 months ago
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Supreme Court had the good sense to ignore a case that would have prevented the government from funding embryonic stem cell research ...Illustration by Andrea Danti via Shutterstock First, some background. When Barack Obama took office in 2009,
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Team at Riken taps iPS cells to kill cancer
Tōkyō :: Japan | 5 months ago
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The current cancer immunotherapy tries to stimulate the immune systems of patients to increase T cells, a type of lymphocyte, in their bodies. But its effects are limited because T cells do not increase dramatically. The researchers, headed by
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World first as scientists create cancer-killing cells that can be injected into patients
Tōkyō :: Japan | 5 months ago
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3 January 2013 Scientists have created cells capable of killing cancer for the first time Scientists have created cells capable of killing cancer for the first time. The dramatic breakthrough was made by researchers in Japan who created cancer-
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