Stem Cell Research

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• Pioneering Discoveries About The Development Of Cells

  
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  How does the developing pancreas in an embryo know which cells are to produce insulin and which cells are to have other assignments? Researchers need to understand this if they want to be able to treat type-1 diabetes with stem cells developed into insulin-producing beta cells. At Lund University scientists have ...
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• The Use Of Stem Cells In Regenerative Medicine May Be Detrimental For Health

  
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  The use of stem cells in regenerative medicine is not always beneficial for human health, it may even be harmful according to a work done by the University of Granada and University of León. Scientists have demonstrated that transplantation of human mononuclear cells isolated from umbilical cord blood exerted a ...
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• Calif. changes tune on adult stem cells

  
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  Baptist Press : "Californias stem cell program has awarded $230 million primarily to non-embryonic research, in the process implicitly admitting embryonic experiments are much further from producing therapies in human beings."
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• The Nebraska Coalition for Ethical Research Needs Your Help in Keeping UNMC from Going Deeper Into the ESCR Mess

  
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  A recent statement from the Nebraska Coalition for Ethical Research (an organization Im very honored to be associated with) reviews the situation regarding the University of Nebraska Medical Centers policy on experimenting with human embryos and the insistent push from some of the NU Regents to expand that immoral ...
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• Stem Cell Charter Sign & Share Rally Begins!

  
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  Why did I sign The Stem Cell Charter ? Yes, Ive been really impressed with the launch and the associated campaign. Yes, my parents are cancer researchers and I (literally) grew up in lab. Yes, the website and videos are beautifully done. Yes, the Charter is well crafted, balancing both the opportunities created, and ...
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• Embryo-destructive research and the contraceptive mentality are fruits of the same tree

  
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  Kevin Maher writing at the Westchester Institute : "Today biotech is slowly cajoling Americans into taking things a step further and accepting the direct creation of embryos solely for research purposes.In asking how we got here, we have to turn the clock back to the late sixties, when Americans first became ...
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• SD: “Coalition For Cures Not Cloning” forms to fight possible ballot vote

  
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  KSFY : "The Coalition for Cures Not Cloning is the new group. They say theyll be making an official announcement Thursday. The group will be planning efforts to fight a 2010 initiative that would reverse the current ban on cloning and embryonic stem cell research."
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• Hamilton Thorne Raises $2.2M

  
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  deals , Healthcare IT , Life Sciences Wade Roush wrote: Beverly, MA-based Hamilton Thorne , which makes laser equipment used in stem-cell research labs and fertility clinics, has raised $2.2 million in a private stock placement and debt conversion deal, according to an announcement released last week. A ...
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• Stem cells restore cognitive abilities impaired by brain tumor treatment

  
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  Human embryonic stem cells could help people with learning and memory deficits after radiation treatment for brain tumors, suggests a new UC Irvine study. Research with rats found that transplanted stem cells restored learning and memory to normal levels four months after radiotherapy. In contrast, irradiated rats ...
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• Scientists successfully reprogram blood cells

  
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  Researchers have transplanted genetically modified hematopoietic stem cells into mice so that their developing red blood cells produce a critical lysosomal enzyme –preventing or reducing organ and central nervous system damage from the often-fatal genetic disorder Hurlers syndrome.
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• What You Need to Know about Stem Cell Research

  
  Health and Medic — Authority: 142
  Stem cell research is one of the most important breakthroughs that happened in November 1998. It was when two separate researchers successfully took stem cells from aborted fetuses and human embryos. Stem cell research deals with studying the embryonic stem cells. Stem cells or embryo cells are those specialized cells ...
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• Event: Adult Stem Cells Saved My Life

  
  Reflections of a Paralytic — Authority: 123
  I was surprised and honored to get an email from Dr. David Prentice this past weekend inviting me to Family Research Council’s Adult Stem Cells Saved My Life Education & Awareness Campaign premier in Kansas City this coming Saturday, Nov. 14th. Sadly, when most people think of stem cells they think of those ...
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• $11 Million NIH Grant For Stem Cell Research Awarded To Rhode Island Hospital

  
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  Rhode Island Hospital has received an $11 million grant to fund research that will lead to a general understanding of stem cell biology and identify unique approaches to tissue regeneration in lung and marrow diseases.
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• A Step Forward In Cell Reprogramming

  
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  There are increasingly more research groups that try to discover the mechanisms of cell differentiation in order to reprogramme differentiated cells. On this occasion, investigators from the CRG have described a process of cell reprogramming which results in morphologically and functionally distinct cells with a 100% ...
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• Scientists reveal how induced pluripotent stem cells differ from embryonic stem cells

  
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  The same genes that are chemically altered during normal cell differentiation, as well as when normal cells become cancer cells, are also changed in stem cells that scientists derive from adult cells, according to new research from Johns Hopkins and Harvard.
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• Destroying Human Embryos for Immoral, Counter-Productive Experiments

  
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  Chip Maxwell, the executive director of the Nebraska Coalition for Ethical Research, fires both barrels (and hits both targets) with splendid op/ed columns for both the Omaha World-Herald and the Lincoln Journal Star . They are both well worth reading so do check them out. * "Let Ethics Drive Research Debate" ...
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• Elizabeth Bathory must be dancing in her grave

  
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  This from yesterdays Washington Times.Aborted fetus cells used in beauty creamsValerie RichardsonA San Francisco cosmetics company has ignited an outcry among pro-lifers for including an unexpected ingredient in its anti-aging creams: skin-cell proteins from an aborted fetus.Children of God for Life, a watchdog group ...
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• Scientists Reveal How Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Differ From Embryonic Stem Cells And Tissue Of Derivation

  
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  The same genes that are chemically altered during normal cell differentiation, as well as when normal cells become cancer cells, are also changed in stem cells that scientists derive from adult cells, according to new research from Johns Hopkins and Harvard.
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• NOXXON Announces Initiation Of First-in-Human Clinical Trial With Hematopoietic Stem Cell Mobilizing Spiegelmer(R) NOX-A12

  
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  NOXXON Pharma AG, the biopharmaceutical company focusing on the development of novel drugs based on its unique proprietary Spiegelmer® technology, announced today the successful initial dosing of healthy volunteers in a first-in-human clinical trial with Spiegelmer® NOX-A12. NOX-A12 is NOXXONs second drug candidate ...
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• Stem Cell Connections to Health

  
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  by PlacidWay | Integrative Medical Center Many people don’t know the difference between different types of stem cells and their potential uses in the development of treatments for a multitude of illnesses and disease processes. Stem cells from different part of the body are identified by different names. ...
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