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U. expert named to national stem cell panel
Atlanta :: GA :: USA | 2 months ago
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Botkin has been tapped to lead a new panel that will review proposals for government-funded research that uses embryonic stem cells. The nine-member panel, called the Working Group for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Eligibility Review, will examine scientists'...
Tags: stem cells, embryonic stem, NIH, human embryonic, cells panel, funded research, Atlanta
Stem cell research guidelines to be proposed at U.S. summit
Montreal :: Canada | 2 months ago
Credibility A charter devised by Canadians outlining the ethical principles that should guide international stem cell research is being presented Tuesday at the World Stem Cell Summit in Baltimore. The Stem Cell Charter is a collective call to action in support of...
Tags: stem cells, cells research, Canada, Montreal
Lacroix pleads guilty to fraud
Als :: Denmark | 2 months ago
Credibility Former Norbourg CEO Vincent Lacroix has pleaded guilty in a Quebec court to more than 200 fraud charges. Longueuil police are continuing to investigate after the bodies of a man and a child were found in a Montreal-area hotel. About 50 people, including...
Tags: stem cells, Vincent Lacroix, skin cancers, pleading guilty, lung cancers, Denmark, Als
Times of India: Myths defeat purpose
Vārānasī :: India | 2 months ago
Credibility The stem cell transplantation is still in the preliminary stage in the country. "Against 10,000 cord blood (stem cell) transplantations in the world every year, our country is still witnessing only 20 transplantations," said Dr CV Neriker, chief executive...
Tags: stem cells, India, Vārānasī
Breast cancer drugs raise blood clot risk
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Drugs used to lower the risk of breast cancer in women have the side effect of increasing the likelihood of blood clots, researchers in Oregon say. The study, published in the current issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, examined the effects of tamoxifen,...
Tags: breast cancer, stem cells, cancer stem, diabetes drug, blood clots, cancer drug, Chicago
Newsday: Awards given for leukemia treatment, DNA advances
New York City :: NY :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Five scientists have won prestigious research awards for developing a life-saving leukemia treatment and for advances in "reprogramming" DNA, which led to a new kind of stem cell. The $250,000 Lasker Awards will be presented Oct. 2 in New York by the...
Tags: Shinya Yamanaka, stem cells, researcher awarded, lasker awarded, New York City
Researchers find prostate cancer stem cell
London :: United Kingdom | 2 months ago
Credibility Researchers have found a stem cell, a kind of master cell, that may cause at least some types of prostate cancer. Their findings are only experimental -- the stem cells were found in mice -- but could explain at least some types of prostate cancer and...
Tags: cancer, stem cells, prostate cancer
LiveScience: Robot to Get Human Brain Cells
London :: United Kingdom | 2 months ago
Credibility 42 am ET British researchers plan to create a robot controlled by human brain cells, New Scientist reports...It's all cooked up in a broth of nutrients zapped by electricity.
Tags: brain cells, human brain, stem cells
Osiris shares tumble after failed stem cell study
Columbia :: SC :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility Osiris Therapeutics Inc., the company bidding to bring the first stem-cell therapy to market, fell the most in three years after its Prochymal drug failed to help bone-marrow transplant patients survive a life-threatening immune reaction called graft-versus-host...
Tags: stem cells, Osiris Therapeutics Inc., host disease, adult stem, marrow transplants
Study: Human fat yields multipurpose stem cells
Stanford :: CA :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility 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
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