© 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...

© 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...

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...

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...

The discovery of an intestinal stem cell marker fuels an ongoing debate over the cells' location and...

The nascent science still has many stumbling blocks to step over before companies can reap the rewards of...

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...

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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...

(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...

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 .

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 .

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...

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:/...

(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...

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...

Several months after becoming the first patient in the United States to undergo a revolutionary new stroke treatment, Roland 'Bud' Henrich continues to...

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...

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...

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...

New research describes a molecular tool that shows great promise as a therapeutic for human acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a notoriously treatment-resistant blood...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 .

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...

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...

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...

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...

LifeSiteNews (www.lifesitenews.com) The Company will no longer use Rats but instead use embryonic human life for testing toxic compaunds. BOSTON, Mass...

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...

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...

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...