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    Innovative Technique Lays Groundwork For Novel Stem Cell Therapies

    Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have for the first time transformed skin cells - with a single genetic factor - into cells that develop on their own into an interconnected, functional network of brain cells. The research offers new hope in the fight against many neurological conditions...
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    Survival Increased In Systemic Sclerosis Patients By Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transpl

    Initial results from an international, investigator-initiated, open label phase III trial were presented at EULAR 2012, the Annual Congress of the European League Against Rheumatism. Data indicate that haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) results in better long term survival than...
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    Scientists Discover A Stem Cell That Causes Heart Disease

    UC Berkeley scientists published a report this week in the journal Nature Communications saying that they have isolated a type of stem cell that causes heart disease in later life. The research is profound because it contradicts much of the generally accepted theories of what causes arterial...
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    New Drug For Destroying Human Cancer Stem Cells

    Conventional cancer treatments, such as chemotherapy and radiation can cause toxic side-effects. Now, researchers have discovered that a drug called thioridazine can successfully destroy cancer stem cells in humans without these effects. Mick Bhatia, lead researcher of the study and scientific...
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    Using Stem Cell Therapy For Neck And Head Cancers Avoids Salivary Gland Damage Caused

    Approximately 40% of individuals treated for head and neck cancer experience the distressing adverse-effects of dry mouth syndrome. However, researchers in the Netherlands may have found a way to prevent impairing salivary glands during radiotherapy treatment. The researchers note this finding...
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    Damaged Stem Cells Commit Suicide For The Good Of The Embryo

    Embryonic stem cells - those revered cells that give rise to every cell type in the body - just got another badge of honor. If they suffer damage that makes them a threat to the developing embryo, they swiftly fall on their swords for the greater good, according to a study published online in...
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    Troubled Romantic Relationships May Stem From Childhood Emotional Maltreatment

    People who experience Childhood Emotional Maltreatment (CEM) are more likely to have troubled romantic relationships in adult years, according to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers. In two separate studies, doctoral candidate Dana Lassri and Prof. Golan Shahar of BGU's...
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    Discovery Of 'Housekeeping' Mechanism For Brain Stem Cells

    Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) have identified a molecular pathway that controls the retention and release of the brain's stem cells. The discovery offers new insights into normal and abnormal neurologic development and could eventually lead to regenerative therapies...
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    Current Views On Cancer Stem Cells Contradicted By New Findings In Breast Cancer

    New findings in breast cancer research by an international team of scientists contradict the prevailing belief that only basal-like cells with stem cell qualities can form invasive tumors. Research led by Ole William Petersen at the University of Copenhagen (CU) and Mina Bissell of the Lawrence...
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    Genetically Engineered Stem Cells Seek Out And Kill HIV In Mouse Model

    Expanding on previous research providing proof-of-principal that human stem cells can be genetically engineered into HIV-fighting cells, a team of UCLA researchers have now demonstrated that these cells can actually attack HIV-infected cells in a living organism. The study, published in the...
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    Interim Results Of Neuralstem ALS Stem Cell Trial

    Neuralstem, Inc. (NYSE Amex: CUR) announced that safety results from the first 12 patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease) to receive its stem cells were reported online in the peer-reviewed publication, Stem Cell. "Lumbar Intraspinal Injection of Neural Stem...
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    Motor Neurone Disease Sees Stem Cell Breakthrough

    A breakthrough in a stem-cell programme funded by the UK-based MND Association has greatly improved the chances of developing effective treatments for Motor Neurone Disease (MND) of which the predominant form is Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). An international team led by the UK's...
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    Stem Cells Hint At Potential Treatment For Huntington's Disease

    Huntington's disease, the debilitating congenital neurological disorder that progressively robs patients of muscle coordination and cognitive ability, is a condition without effective treatment, a slow death sentence. But if researchers can build on new research reported this week (March 15...
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    Stem Cell Development Triggers Memory

    Researchers at the RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics have discovered an answer to the long-standing mystery of how brain cells can both remember new memories while also maintaining older ones. They found that specific neurons in a brain region called the dentate gyrus serve distinct...
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    Heart Attack Patients Offered Hope By Stem Cell Study In Mice

    A UCSF stem cell study conducted in mice suggests a novel strategy for treating damaged cardiac tissue in patients following a heart attack. The approach potentially could improve cardiac function, minimize scar size, lead to the development of new blood vessels - and avoid the risk of tissue...
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    Vessel-Forming Stem Cells Derived From Amniotic Fluid To Help Fix Infant Hearts

    Researchers at Rice University and Texas Children's Hospital have turned stem cells from amniotic fluid into cells that form blood vessels. Their success offers hope that such stem cells may be used to grow tissue patches to repair infant hearts. "We want to come up with technology to replace...
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    Key Finding In Stem Cell Self-Renewal

    A University of Minnesota-led research team has proposed a mechanism for the control of whether embryonic stem cells continue to proliferate and stay stem cells, or differentiate into adult cells like brain, liver or skin. The work has implications in two areas. In cancer treatment, it is...
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    Exercise Triggers Stem Cells In Muscle

    University of Illinois researchers determined that an adult stem cell present in muscle is responsive to exercise, a discovery that may provide a link between exercise and muscle health. The findings could lead to new therapeutic techniques using these cells to rehabilitate injured muscle and...
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    Stem Cell Treatment For Blindness Shows Promise In Trials

    The first published results of trials using cells derived from human embryonic stem cells appear to show they have passed an initial safety hurdle. In The Lancet this week, researchers report that two nearly blind patients, one with Stargardt's macular dystrophy and the other with dry...
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    Stem Cell Implants Help Heal Traumatic Brain Injury In The Lab

    For years, researchers seeking new therapies for traumatic brain injury have been tantalized by the results of animal experiments with stem cells. In numerous studies, stem cell implantation has substantially improved brain function in experimental animals with brain trauma. But just how these...
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