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Spinal injury drug developed cysts in animals: Geron (Reuters)
Bangalore :: India | 3 months ago
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Geron Corp said animals injected with its experimental cell therapy for subacute spinal cord injury developed microscopic cysts in the injury site, but its shares rose as the company reported none of the animals developed teratomas, a kind of tumor. Shares...
Tags: stem cells, Geron Corp
Scientists grow retina cells from skin-derived stem cells
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility The researchers have also said that their discovery may soon lead to laboratory models for studying genetically linked eye conditions, screening new drugs to treat those conditions and understanding the development of the human eye. "This is an important...
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Boston Business Journal: Biotech lawyer rolls up sleeves for stem cell harvest
Glasgow :: United Kingdom | 3 months ago
Credibility Resnick voluntarily took in a cocktail of drugs to prepare his bone marrow for an impending harvest of his stem cells, he reflected on a bit of irony: Most of his 47 years have been spent in a manner to avoid the doctor’s office. “People who know me,...
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Stem cells turned into glowing blood
Melbourne :: Australia | 3 months ago
Credibility Australian scientists working with embryonic stem cells in a breakthrough that could make blood donations redundant. The cells glow for the about three weeks, until the cell dies. The "sparkle", which a spokeswoman for the research team said was "like...
Tags: stem cells, blood cells, red blood
U.S. News & World Report: Using Tobacco Against Norovirus
Houston :: TX :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility Researchers Use Tobacco to Make Possible Norovirus Vaccine Researchers announced Tuesday that they have used tobacco plants to create a potential vaccine for norovirus, a stomach virus known to strike cruise ship passengers and other people living in...
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Amgen's Vectibix meets goal in colon cancer study
Thousand Oaks :: CA :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility Calif. — Biotechnology company Amgen Inc. said Monday its cancer drug Vectibix met the key treatment goals in a late-stage study focusing on patients with colon cancer. The study focused on a combination of Vectibix and chemotherapy as second-line treatment...
Tags: Geron Corp., FDA, Adamas Pharmaceuticals Inc., stem cells, cord injury
Globe and Mail, Canada: Stem-cell method hailed as 'massive breakthrough'
Hamilton :: Canada | 3 months ago
Credibility From Wednesday's Globe and Mail Last updated on Friday, Apr. 03, 2009 02:43PM EDT J apanese researchers have taken skin cells from the face of a 36-year-old woman and turned them into what appear to be embryonic stem cells. A second team, in the United...
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The Province, Canada: Chinese experts grow live mice from skin cells
Hong Kong :: China | 3 months ago
Credibility Chinese researchers have managed to create powerful stem cells from mouse skin and used these to generate fertile live mouse pups. They used induced pluripotent skin cells, or iPS cells -- cells that have been reprogrammed to look and act like embryonic...
Tags: stem cells, skin cells, embryonic stem
Salk Proves Stems Cells Can Cure Genetic Diseases!
San Diego :: CA :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility The Salk Institute for Biological Studies just proved that genetic diseases can be cured by combining gene therapy with stem cells! With induced pluripotent stem cell technology, they actually corrected a defective gene linked to leukemia and other cancers...
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Drug ‘attacks cancer stem cells’
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility A compound that appears to target the master cells which help breast cancers grow and spread has been discovered by US scientists. This entry was posted on Friday, August 14th, 2009 at 7:39 am and is filed under Health . You can follow any responses...
Tags: stem cells, cancerous stem, Broad Institute, killing cancerous, breast cancerous, specifically attack, target cancerous, cancerous grow, master cells, attack cancerous
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