SCIENCE NEWS New Technique to Preserve Blood The Malaysian Health Ministry, via the National Blood Bank, has begun implementing a technology to preserve blood reserves for up to 10 years, its minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said. [The Star Press Release] “Good” Cells can Go “Bad” in a “Bad Neighborhood” Researchers report that normal blood stem cells “are dependent upon their environment. They get their cues from the surrounding ‘neighborhood’ of bone cells,” says Scadden, co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and director of the MGH Center for Regenerative Medicine. [Press release from the Harvard Stem Cell Institute discussing the online prepublication in Nature] | | | | | THE CELL THERAPY SOFTWARE EXPERTS™ | WWW.STEMSOFT.COM | | | |
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POLICY NEWS Carl Wieman Chosen for White House Science Post Physicist Carl Wieman has been picked to be associate director for science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. [Office of Science and Technology Policy, United States] Japan Maps Out Big Science Plans For the first time ever, Japanese scientists have produced a roadmap of where they see major research programs heading in the mid-term, about 10 years out, and a list of large-scale facilities they will need to get there. [Science Council of Japan, Japan] Blood Products Advisory Committee; Notice of Meeting [Docket No. FDA-2010-N-0001] [Food and Drug Administration, United States] Instructions for Completion and Peer Review of the Vertebrate Animal Section in NIH Grant Applications and Cooperative Agreements (NOT-OD-10-027) [National Institutes of Health, United States] Recovery Act: Update on American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Quarterly Reporting Requirements for Non-Competing Continuation Awards and Relinquished Projects; and Guidance to Avoid Common Errors (NOT-OD-10-065) [National Institutes of Health, United States] Recovery Act: Reminders on Annual Reporting Requirements and Notice of Revised Financial Closeout Requirements for American Recovery and Reinvestment Act-Funded Administrative Supplements and Competitive Revisions (NOT-OD-10-066) [National Institutes of Health, United States] Recovery Act: Notice on the Proper Management of Recovery Act Spending to Promote Job Creation and Increase the Pace of Scientific Research; and Policy Limiting Second No-Cost Extensions to Recovery Act Grants (NOT-OD-10-067) [National Institutes of Health, United States] Request for Comments on Proposed NIH, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and Center of Disease Control Process Change for Electronic Submission of Grant Applications (NOT-OD-10-068) [National Institutes of Health, United States] Amended NIH Policy on Submission of Late Grant Application Materials Prior to Initial Peer Review (NOT-OD-10-070) [National Institutes of Health, United States] Modification: This Notice modifies RFA-RM-10-001 (NOT-RM-10-005) [National Institutes of Health, United States] Modifi cation to RFA-RM-09-019: Institutional Clinical and Translational Science Award (U54) (NOT-RM-10-006) [National Institutes of Health, United States] Tissue Reference Group: TRG Annual Report FY 2009 Update [Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, United States] April 12, 2010: Blood Products Advisory Committee Meeting Announcement [Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, United States]
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EVENTS 12th Biennial Canadian Blood and Marrow Transplant Group (CBMTG) Conference April 7-10, 2010 Vancouver, Canada American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 101st Annual Meeting 2010 April 17-21, 2010 Washington, DC, United States British Society for Haematology 50th Annual Scientific Meeting April 19-21, 2010 Edinburgh, Scotland XXIII International Symposium on Technological Innovations in Laboratory Hematology May 10-12, 2010 Brighton, United Kingdom 16th Annual International Society for Cellular Therapy (ISCT) Meeting May 23-26, 2010 Philadelphia, United States 8th Annual International Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation Symposium June 3-5, 2010 San Francisco, United States International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) 8th Annual Meeting June 16-19, 2010 San Francisco, United States Select Bioscience’s World Biobanking Summit August 24-25, 2010 Edinburgh, Scotland International Society for Hematology and Stem Cells (ISEH) 2010 Meeting September 15-18, 2010 Melbourne, Australia American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) Annual Meeting & Cellular Therapy and Transfusion Medicine Expo (CTTXPO) 2010 October 9-12, 2010 Baltimore, United States 52nd American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition December 4-7, 2010 Orlando, United States Visit our events page to stay up to date with the latest events in the cell, gene and immunotherapy community.
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