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Stem cell study leads to fertility breakthrough
London :: CA :: USA | 10 days ago
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Stem cell study leads to breakthrough in understanding infertility 'Hidden stage of human development' is opened up by Stanford University scientists Understanding the details of how sperm and egg cells grow will help scientists develop treatments. Photograph:...
Tags: stem cells, human development, germ cells
Salk Institute Awarded Grant For ALS Project
San Diego :: CA :: USA | 11 days ago
Credibility The Salk Institute in La Jolla was awarded a $10.8 million state grant to develop a stem-cell derived therapy for Lou Gehrig's disease, it was announced Wednesday. The grant was among $250 million awarded by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine,...
Tags: stem cells, awarded grant, cells research, Metabasis Therapeutics, Ligand Pharmaceuticals
Disgraced Cloning Expert Convicted in South Korea
Seoul :: South Korea | 13 days ago
Credibility Hwang Woo Suk, a disgraced cloning expert from South Korea who had claimed major breakthroughs in stem cell research, was convicted on Monday of falsifying his papers and embezzling government research funds. A judge sentenced him to a suspended two-year...
Tags: South Korean, Hwang Woo-suk, stem cells, disgraced clone, Dr Hwang, Hwang Woo-Suk, korean clone, clone scientist, clone expert, Mr. Hwang
South Korea stem cell scientist guilty of fraud
Seoul :: South Korea | 14 days ago
Credibility 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
It's Stem-Cell Harvest Time for Ethan Zohn
New York :: NY :: USA | 16 days ago
Credibility But for Ethan Zohn, it's a harvest of a whole different kind. "Today is a nice fall day outside, which means it's a perfect day to harvest your stem cells," Zohn, 35, says in his latest video diary. Dressed in a hoodie and lying in a hospital bed where...
Tags: Ethan Zohn, stem cells
Omaha World-Herald: Regents to hear stem cell comment
Lincoln :: NE :: USA | 17 days ago
Credibility 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...
Tags: stem cells, cells researcher, embryonic stem
Bionic Eye Opens New World Of Sight For The Blind
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 19 days ago
Credibility And those electrodes do what the old retina can't anymore: send electrical signals to the brain that allow sight. Mech says it usually takes patients' brains a little while to make sense of the new signals. "They learn to use the device better over time,"...
Tags: stem cells
BBC News: 'Ethical' stem cell crop boosted
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | 20 days ago
Credibility It is a practical step forward in techniques to produce large numbers of stem cells without using embryos. Using three drug-like chemicals, the team made the procedure 200 times more efficient and twice as fast, the Nature Methods journal reported. It...
Tags: stem cells
Study finds potential key to growing heart cells (Reuters)
Washington :: DC :: USA | 23 days ago
Credibility Researchers looking for ways to turn stem cells into the types of heart cells they want said on Thursday they had found the key to making one important type in mice. They found the cells that give rise to the muscles of the ventricles -- the chambers...
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Novel 'patch' to mend broken hearts
Pittsburgh :: PA :: USA | 28 days ago
Credibility With the help of mouse embryonic stem cells, scientists designed a three-dimensional "patch" made up of heart muscle cells, known as cardiomyocytes. The new tissue exhibited the two most important attributes of heart muscle cells-the ability to contract...
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