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• This Week in Nature (GenomeWeb News)

  
  NanoTechBIZZ.com — Authority: 152
  An article looks at how state stem cell funding in California will pan out as the CIRM is about to start doling out major awards for building renovations at state campuses and newly created institutions like the San Diego Consortium for Regenerative Medicine. (read on…) Related items Where do nanomaterials go ...
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• Hamilton Thorne Raises $2.2M

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 708
  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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• The Potential use of Human Stem Cells

  
  gtcbay.com — Authority: 132
  The potential use of human stem cells and the outcomes is huge in term of saving lives, but many people are against that and consider it unethical because we would be using human tissue or cells.This debate has gone back in all minds since we are seeing more and more stem cell banks and cord [...]
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• Stem cells restore cognitive abilities impaired by brain tumor treatment

  
  BreakThrough Digest Medical News — Authority: 481
  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

  
  Biology News Net — Authority: 138
  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: 139
  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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• Stem Cell Breast Augmentation Receives FDA Approval

  
  Cosmetic Surgery Today — Authority: 127
  Stem cells have already been used to help with the repair of certain organs and tissues, and the process of harvesting the cells from fat may soon be commonplace in the cosmetic surgery realm. The FDA has recently approved the stem cell breast augmentation procedure , a combination of liposuction and breast ...
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• Medical Breakthroughs You Need to Know About

  
  fountain-of-youth.net/blog — Authority: 127
  As you are nearing the twilight of your life, you need to know that there are new discoveries being made every day. The wonderful world of medicine may even become your best friend because you need to know how you can live your life to the fullest and beat stereotypes. It’s nice to know that you no longer have to ...
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• Texans for Stem Cell Research

  
  ** Stu's Views & M.S. News ** — Authority: 140
  Preston W. provided me with this website: Texans for Stem Cell research - http://www.txstemcell.org/ Preston has undergone stem cell therapy and appears to be doing better than before this form of therapy, not yet approved in the USA. Read more of Preston and others that have had Adult Stem Cell Therapy at: ...
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• New therapy shows promise in treating advanced leukaemia (Re-issue)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Washington, Nov 8 (ANI): Scientists from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre have come up with a novel treatment that would improve survival rates of leukemia and pre-leukemia patients.They used a radiolabeled antibody to deliver targeted doses of radiation, followed by a stem cell transplant, to successfully treat ...
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• $11 Million NIH Grant For Stem Cell Research Awarded To Rhode Island Hospital

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  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

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  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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• Indian doctor condemned over miracle cure claims

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  London, Nov 7 (ANI): A Indian doctor has come under fire over claims of treating incurable or terminal illnesses using embryonic stem cells without any safety trials and randomised clinical studies.Delhi-based doc Dr. Geeta Shroff is charging as much as 30,000 pounds for a single course of treatment.And medical ...
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• Scientists reveal how induced pluripotent stem cells differ from embryonic stem cells

  
  Biology News Net — Authority: 138
  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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• Gene Therapy Technique Slows Brain Disease ALD Featured In Movie...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 154
  A strategy that combines gene therapy with blood stem cell therapy may be a useful tool for treating a fatal brain disease, French researchers have found.
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• Destroying Human Embryos for Immoral, Counter-Productive Experiments

  
  Vital Signs — Authority: 145
  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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• Analyst Briefing Presentation on the Global Stem Cells Market to be held on 18th November, 2009

  
  PR Friend Press Releases — Authority: 155
  Wilmington, Del.-The Healthcare practice at MarketsandMarkets is pleased to announce its Analyst Briefing Presentation on the Global Stem Cells Market to be held on 18th November, 2009.The global stem cells market is estimated to reach $88.3 billion by 2014, growing at a CAGR of 14.8 % from 2009 to 2014, driven by the ...
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• Elizabeth Bathory must be dancing in her grave

  
  Byzantine Ramblings — Authority: 112
  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

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  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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