Showing posts with label stem cells. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stem cells. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Medical Potential Of IPS Stem Cells Exaggerated Says World Authority

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IPS cells were named the breakthrough of 2008 From Times Online: The medical potential of reprogrammed stem cells that do not require the de...
Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Pioneering Stem Cell Treatment Restores Sight

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From The Telegraph: A man blinded in one eye by a chemical attack as he intervened to stop a fight has had his sight restored thanks to pion...
Thursday, December 10, 2009

Stem Cells Can be Engineered into Genetic Vaccines Against HIV and More

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Killer T-Cells The blue blobs are killer T-cells getting ready to attack a tumor via PNAS From Popular Science: While some viruses attack t...
Wednesday, December 2, 2009

U.S. Allows New Stem Cell Lines for Research

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President Barack Obama looks through a microscope at brain cells with Dr Marston Linehan as he tours the National Institutes of Health (NIH)...
Thursday, October 29, 2009

Stem Cell Study Leads To Breakthrough In Understanding Infertility

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Understanding the details of how sperm and egg cells grow will help scientists develop treatments. Photograph: Corbis From The Guardian: Hid...
Monday, October 5, 2009

Vital Embryo Research Driven Out Of Britain

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Professor Justin St John, who has left the UK for Australia (left); Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, of the MRC, which turned down one licence-holder...
Friday, September 4, 2009

China Cracks Down On Stem Cell Tourism

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From New Scientist: Chinese and European researchers have today published ethical guidelines aimed at discouraging Chinese doctors from offe...
Thursday, July 23, 2009

Living, Breeding Mice Grown From Skin Cells

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From Wired Science: Cells from flakes of skin have grown into living, breeding mice, through a bit of biotechnological wizardry. This feat h...
Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Human Sperm Created From Stem Cells In World First, Claims British University

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From The Telegraph: British scientists have created human sperm using stem cells in a medical first that could revolutionise fertility treat...
Tuesday, June 2, 2009

The Essential Guide to Stem Cells

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Myelin Maker?: In July, scientists at Geron Corporation will kick start a clinical trial to heal injured spinal cords with stem cells, in th...
Saturday, April 18, 2009

Blind To Be Cured With Stem Cells

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From Times Online: BRITISH scientists have developed the world’s first stem cell therapy to cure the most common cause of blindness. Surgeon...
Monday, February 2, 2009

FDA Approves Test To Inject Embryonic Stem Cells Into Humans

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Image from ProQuest From Live Science: The federal government has approved the first study by a company that will use human embryonic stem c...
Friday, January 23, 2009

F.D.A. Approves A Stem Cell Trial

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Photo: Geron’s trial with embryonic stem cells will involve people with severe spinal injuries, and will mostly test the therapy’s safety. ...
Sunday, November 23, 2008

Stem Cells Are More Flexible Than Previously Thought, Research Suggests

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Human embryonic stem cell growing on a layer of supporting cells (fibroblasts). Micrograph by Annie Cavanagh and Dave McCarthy. (Photo From ...
Friday, September 26, 2008

Scientists Report Advance in Stem Cell Alternative

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Human embryonic stem cell (gold) growing on a layer of supporting cells (fibroblasts). From the Washington Post: Scientists reported yesterd...