July 3, 2009 | KSWT 13 News
U.S. doctors treat heart attack with man's own stem cells
© iStockphoto.com/Günay Mutlu TUESDAY, June 30 (HealthDay News) -- American physicians say they've performed the first procedure in which a patient received injections of his own heart stem cells to repair heart attack...
July 3, 2009 | KSWT 13 News
Master stem cell for human heart identified
© iStockphoto.com/Günay Mutlu By Amanda Gardner, HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, July 1 (HealthDay News) -- For the first time, researchers have identified a single "master" stem cell in humans that is capable of differentiating into all three major cell types that make up the human...
July 3, 2009 | NBC Newschannel 6
Spinal Cord Stem Cells May Act as Nerve Repair System
TUESDAY, July 22 (HealthDay News) -- Adult stem cells that may prove valuable in efforts to develop nonsurgical treatments for spinal cord injuries have been identified by researchers in the United States and...
July 3, 2009 | California Republic
Time to Sunset Californias Relic Stem Cell Institute
by K. Lloyd Billingsley | Sacramento The governance of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the state stem cell institute, is inadequate to protect the interests of taxpayers and CIRMs own goals, according to Stem Cell Research: Strengthening Governance to Further the...
July 3, 2009 | The Scientist
Gut Churning
The discovery of an intestinal stem cell marker fuels an ongoing debate over the cells' location and...
July 3, 2009 | The Scientist
Success with iPSCs
The nascent science still has many stumbling blocks to step over before companies can reap the rewards of...
July 3, 2009 | American Journal of Otolaryngology
Study on neural stem cell transplantation into natural rat cochlea via round window
Abstract Objective The aim of the study is to investigate the survival of neural stem cells (NSCs) in normal rat cochlea and their potential effect on auditory function and cochlea structures via round window...
July 3, 2009 | Bay Street
AllPennyStocks.com Announces July 6th to July 10th U.S. Penny Stocks 2 Watch (BCLI.OB, CSKH.OB)
(BAYSTREET NEWSWIRE) MISSISSAUGA, ON, July 3, 2009 -- AllPennyStocks.com Media, Inc. (http://www.AllPennyStocks.com), a leading penny stock / small-cap information site, released its July 6th to July 10th, 2009...
July 3, 2009 | Congoo
Brain stem cell discovery could lead to new therapies
They have found that a signalling pathway (called Wnt) in brain stem cells may be a critical key to developing therapies that would enable the restoration of damaged...
July 3, 2009 | Health 101 Blogs
New Therapy Eliminates Deadly Leukemia Stem Cells
(Ivanhoe Newswire) A recent study describes a novel therapeutic approach which significantly advances the fight against the deadly human acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a notoriously treatment-resistant blood...
July 3, 2009 | Congoo
Immune Therapy Versus Leukemia Stem Cells
Via EurekAlert! , an example of progress in using the immune system to target specific cells for destruction: acute myeloid leukemia (AML) "is a cancer of the white blood cells that has an extremely poor prognosis and does not respond well to conventional chemotherapy .
July 3, 2009 | Congoo
New Connection Between Cancer Cells, Stem Cells Found by Stanford Researchers
Category: Cancer News Font Size Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have revealed that a molecule called telomerase, best known for enabling unlimited cell division of stem cells and cancer cells, has a surprising additional role in the expression of genes in an important stem .
July 3, 2009 | Innovations Report
Stanford discovery pinpoints new connection between cancer cells, stem cells
A molecule called telomerase, best known for enabling unlimited cell division of stem cells and cancer cells, has a surprising additional role in the expression of genes in an important stem cell regulatory pathway, say researchers at the Stanford University School of...
July 3, 2009 | Todays Healthy News
Stem Cell Transplantation For Cardiac Repair And Limb Ischemia
The frontiers of cell transplantation for cardiac repair are discussed in the current issue of Cell Transplantation (Vol. 18 No.3), now available on-line without charge at http:/...
July 3, 2009 | The Post and Courier (AP)
New therapy eliminates deadly leukemia stem cells
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A recent study describes a novel therapeutic approach which significantly advances the fight against the deadly human acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a notoriously treatment-resistant blood...
July 3, 2009 | redOrbit
Therapy Eliminates Deadly Leukemia Stem Cells
A recent study describes a novel therapeutic approach which significantly advances the fight against the deadly human acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a notoriously treatment-resistant blood...
July 3, 2009 | Congoo
Stem Cells Tested for Treatment of Stroke
Several months after becoming the first patient in the United States to undergo a revolutionary new stroke treatment, Roland 'Bud' Henrich continues to...
July 3, 2009 | Congoo
Genes Not Needed In Adult Muscle Stem Cells To Regenerate Muscles After Injury,
Category: Genetics & Stem Cells News Font Size Genes important for forming muscle cells in embryos and newborns are not needed in adult muscle stem cells to regenerate muscles after injury, find...
July 3, 2009 | Congoo
Stem Cell Possibilities Energize the Market
Potential of Field Provides Range of Opportunities for Therapeutic and Tool Firms Harold Gross click to enlarge Estimated R&D expenditures Stem cells are the biological building blocks that form other cells in the...
July 3, 2009 | Congoo
Bioethicists lead call for public debates on future uses of stem cells
More than 40 scientists, bioethicists, lawyers and science journal editors are calling on their colleagues, policy makers and the public to begin developing guidelines for the research and reproductive use of stem cell-derived eggs and sperm, even though such use may be a decade or more...
July 3, 2009 | Check Orphan
New targeted therapy finds and eliminates deadly leukemia stem cells
New research describes a molecular tool that shows great promise as a therapeutic for human acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a notoriously treatment-resistant blood...
July 3, 2009 | Discover Magazine Blogs
Could Stem Cells Patch Up a Broken Heart?
Scientists have identified the master stem cell that gives rise to the three types of heart cells, possibly opening the door for new methods of pharmaceutical research and heart therapies, such as growing a patch to repair cardiac tissue damaged by heart disease, according to a study published in...
July 3, 2009 | Innovations Report
Scientists Find Differences in Embryonic Stem Cells and Reprogrammed Skin Cells
UCLA researchers have found that embryonic stem cells and skin cells reprogrammed into embryonic-like cells have inherent molecular differences, demonstrating for the first time that the two cell types are clearly distinguishable from one...
July 3, 2009 | JEWISH WORLD REVIEW
The Empirical President
One of President Obama's pretensions is the pose of objectivity. Reversing his predecessor's policy on stem cell research, he boasted of restoring "science to its rightful...
July 3, 2009 | Congoo
Molecular Differences Found Between Embryonic Stem Cells And Reprogrammed Skin Cells
Â? UCLA researchers have found that embryonic stem cells and skin cells reprogrammed into embryonic-like cells have inherent molecular differences, demonstrating for the first time that the two cell types are clearly distinguishable from one...
July 3, 2009 | Congoo
UCLA scientists find molecular differences between embryonic stem cells and reprogrammed
UCLA researchers have found that embryonic stem cells and skin cells reprogrammed into embryonic-like cells have inherent molecular differences, demonstrating for the first time that the two cell types are clearly distinguishable from one...
July 3, 2009 | AndhraNews.net
Novel targeted therapy shows promise to eliminate leukaemia stem cells
A piece of research has shown that it is possible to eliminate stem cells related to human acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a notoriously treatment-resistant blood cancer, using a new targeted...
July 3, 2009 | San Diego Union Tribune
Reform needed
In giving overwhelming approval to Proposition 71 in 2004, voters agreed to an unprecedented $3 billion initiative to override President George W. Bush's ban on human embryonic stem cell research and to make California the national if not global center of this promising scientific...
July 3, 2009 | Medical News Today
Insight Into How Brain Stem Cells Develop Into Cells Which Repair Damaged Tissue
The joint research, funded by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and the UK MS Society as well as the National Institutes of Health and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, was conducted by scientists at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and University of Cambridge and was published in the...
July 3, 2009 | Medical News Today
New Connection Between Cancer Cells, Stem Cells Pinpointed By Stanford Discovery
A molecule called telomerase, best known for enabling unlimited cell division of stem cells and cancer cells, has a surprising additional role in the expression of genes in an important stem cell regulatory pathway, say researchers at the Stanford University School of...
July 3, 2009 | Article Dashboard
Use And Storage Of Stem Cells For Better Understanding
Stem cells research is a growing field that has seen a lot of controversy over the years with people having different views on that. But stem cells are seen today by more and more scientists as having a huge number of possible applications in the treatment and obviously cure of many human...
July 3, 2009 | Congoo
Embryonic stem cells, reprogrammed skin cells have inherent differences
Research indicates for the first time that the two cell types are clearly distinguishable from one another Kim Irwin UCLA researchers have found that embryonic stem cells and skin cells reprogrammed into embryonic-like cells have inherent molecular differences, demonstrating for the first time that .
July 3, 2009 | Congoo
Stem cell reverses memory decline, biotechnology news
A human growth factor that stimulates blood stem cells to proliferate in the bone marrow reverses memory impairment in mice genetically altered to develop Alzheimer's disease, researchers at the University of South Florida and James...
July 3, 2009 | Online Athens
Claire Thompson: Truth told on stem cells
070309letters3Athens Banner-Herald Thanks to Zachary M. Duclos for his letter on President Obama's revocation of President Bush's executive order exhorting the research community to conduct and support research on pluripotent stem cells, at the same time he revoked the ban on embryonic stem...
July 3, 2009 | NewsRx
UCLA cancer researchers develop model that may help identify cancer stem cells
Researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, on a quest to find lung cancer stem cells, have developed a unique model to allow further investigation into the cells that many believe may be at the root of all lung...
July 3, 2009 | Circulation Research
G ProteinCoupled Receptor APJ and Its Ligand Apelin Act Downstream of Cripto to Specify Embryonic Stem Cells Toward the Cardiac Lineage Through Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinase/p70S6 Kinase Signaling Pathway
From the Stem Cell Fate Laboratory (C.D., E.L., S.I., O.G., G.M.), Institute of Genetics and Biophysics "A. Buzzati-Traverso," Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Naples, Italy; Institute of Genetics and Biophysics...
July 2, 2009 | Catholic Online
General Electric to Use Embryonic Stem Cells for Deadly Tests
LifeSiteNews (www.lifesitenews.com) The Company will no longer use Rats but instead use embryonic human life for testing toxic compaunds. BOSTON, Mass...
July 2, 2009 | Congoo
GE Plans to Use Human Embryonic Stem Cells as Lab Rats
Although ethical debates about the use of embryonic stem cells continue to rage, stem cell technology is beginning to make its way into the medical...
July 2, 2009 | Itemlive.com
Will women one day be able to father children?
A new film imagines lesbians conceiving with sperm derived from each other's stem cells - and the science may not be far-fetched. In the new Canadian film "The Baby Formula," two lesbians become pregnant using sperm derived from each other's stem...
July 2, 2009 | Uvox.us
Stem Cell Therapeutics Corp. Announces Early Exercise Warrant Incentive Program
Stem Cell Therapeutics Corp. is pleased to announce an early warrant exercise incentive program designed to encourage the early exercise of up to 17,250,000 outstanding share purchase warrants for gross proceeds of up to $2,760...