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    Therapy Improves Stem Cell Engraftment In Umbilical Cord Blood Transplant Recipients

    A therapy involving a natural compound may improve the ability of stem cells from umbilical cord blood to engraft in patients receiving a stem cell transplant for cancer or other diseases, a phase I clinical trial led by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists indicates. Details of the trial...
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    Spatiotemporal Signals Guide Stem Cell Changes Enabling Engineering Of Cartilage Repl

    A lab discovery is a step toward implantable replacement cartilage, holding promise for knees, shoulders, ears and noses damaged by osteoarthritis, sports injuries and accidents. Self-assembling sheets of mesenchymal stem cells permeated with tiny beads filled with growth factor formed thicker...
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    Scalable Amounts Of Liver And Pancreas Precursor Cells Created Using New Stem Cell Pr

    Scientists in Canada have overcome a key research hurdle to developing regenerative treatments for diabetes and liver disease with a technique to produce medically useful amounts of endoderm cells from human pluripotent stem cells. The research, published in Biotechnology and Bioengineering, can...
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    • amounts cell cells created liver pancreas precursor scalable stem
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    Stem Cell Study Helps Clarify The Best Time For Therapy To Aid Heart Attack Survivors

    A research network led by a Mayo Clinic physician found that stem cells obtained from bone marrow delivered two to three weeks after a person has a heart attack did not improve heart function. This is the first study to systematically examine the timing and method of stem cell delivery and...
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    FDA Approves New York Blood Center's HEMACORD™ For Stem Cell Transplantation

    The Food and Drug Administration has licensed HEMACORD™ (Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells-Cord, HPC-C) for allogeneic hematopoietic (blood-forming) stem cell transplantation, the first such approval of a stem cell product in the world. According to the Food and Drug Administration's notification...
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    Therapeutic Clues Offered By Lung Stem Cells

    Guided by insights into how mice recover after H1N1 flu, researchers at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, together with researchers at A*STAR of Singapore, have cloned three distinct stem cells from the human airways and demonstrated that one of these cells can form into...
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    Repairing Damaged Heart Muscle With Stem Cells From Umbilical Cord Blood

    New research has found that stem cells derived from human cord blood could be an effective alternative in repairing heart attacks. At least 20 million people survive every year, according to World Health Organisation estimates, but many have poor life expectancy and require continual costly...
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    New Method Isolates Best Brain Stem Cells To Treat MS

    The prospect of doing human clinical trials with stem cells to treat diseases like multiple sclerosis may be growing closer, say scientists at the University at Buffalo and the University at Rochester, who have developed a more precise way to isolate stem cells that will make myelin. Myelin is...
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    Researchers Develop New Way To Screen For Brain Cancer Stem Cell Killers

    Researchers with UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have developed and used a high-throughput molecular screening approach that identifies and characterizes chemical compounds that can target the stem cells that are responsible for creating deadly brain tumors. Glioblastoma is one of the...
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    Seeking Superior Stem Cells, One Hundred-fold Increase In Efficiency In Reprogramming

    Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute today announce a new technique to reprogramme human cells, such as skin cells, into stem cells. Their process increases the efficiency of cell reprogramming by one hundred-fold and generates cells of a higher quality at a faster rate. Until...
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    Using Diabetic Patients' Own Stem Cells Can Overcome Shortage Of Insulin-producing Ce

    Researchers in Japan have discovered how a patient's neural stem cells could be used as an alternative source of the beta cells needed for a regenerative treatment for diabetes. The research, published in EMBO Molecular Medicine, reveals how harvesting stem cells could overcome a lack of beta...
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    How do I convert my FC-1055 crankset stem from my old 1993 trek bike to carbon fiber?

    How do I convert my FC-1055 crankset stem from my old 1993 trek bike to carbon fiber? I do not know the compatibilities, and please do not refer me to sheldon, since I am new to cycling and don't know the bike lingo they use in there. Plain English for a dummy is great, since I am one. What...
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    Uterine Stem Cells Treat Diabetes In Mouse Model

    Controlling diabetes may someday involve mining stem cells from the lining of the uterus, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in a new study published in the journal Molecular Therapy. The team treated diabetes in mice by converting cells from the uterine lining into insulin-producing...
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    Ultrasound Improves Stem Cell Transplants

    Transplantation of haematopoietic stem cells is an effective treatment for patients with malignant blood diseases. The composition and quality of the transplanted cells are crucial to the outcome. Researchers from Lund University, Sweden, have now developed a method to improve the quality of the...
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    Key Protein Reveals Secret Of Stem Cell Pluripotency

    A protein that helps maintain mouse stem cell pluripotency has been identified by researchers at the RIKEN Omics Science Center. The finding, published in the August issue of Stem Cells (first published online July 26, 2011), points the way to advances in regenerative medicine and more effective...
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    New Study Is The First North American Clinical Trial To Test Adult Mesenchymal Stem C

    A team of researchers at three landmark Cleveland institutions have come together to launch a new clinical trial of an experimental treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS). Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center, and Case Western Reserve University are...
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    Signaling Stop To Leukemia Stem Cells

    There are numerous specialized growth factors that are responsible for cells of different tissues of our body to divide and differentiate when needed. These hormone-like factors bind to matching receptors on the surface of their target cells and thus give order for the cell to divide. However, a...
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    Stem Cell Research Offers New Hope For Unlocking The Secrets Of Bipolar Disorder

    New stem cell lines developed from the skin of adults living with bipolar disorder are providing researchers at the University of Michigan Health System an unprecedented opportunity to delve into the genetic and biological underpinnings of the devastating mood disorder. Scientists will be able...
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    How can Romney be good for our Economy when he supports Stem Sell Research in China?

    But IRS records show that between 2007 and 2009, Romney's family charity, the Tyler Charitable Trust, continued to buy and sell other investments in companies that dealt with Iranian businesses, complied with Chinese censorship or aided in stem cell research. The Romney campaign said that a...
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    Stem Cell Researchers Uncover Reason Why The Adult Human Heart Cannot Regenerate Itse

    Stem cell researchers at UCLA have uncovered for the first time why adult human cardiac myocytes have lost their ability to proliferate, perhaps explaining why the human heart has little regenerative capacity. The study, done in cell lines and mice, may lead to methods of reprogramming a...
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