Stem-cell Operation on New Zealand Woman in China has Immediate Effect
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Johns Hopkins Begins Human Trials With Donor Adult Stem Cells To Repair Muscle Damaged From Heart Attack
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have begun what is believed to be the first clinical trial in the United States of adult mesenchymal stem cells to repair muscle damaged by heart attack, or myocardial infarct.
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Human Stem Cells Can Develop Into Functional Vascularized Muscle Tissue, Weill Cornell Team Finds
The discovery by Weill Medical College of Cornell University researchers that a specific type of human fetal stem cell can co-differentiate simultaneously into both muscle and blood vessel cells may unlock the door to therapies that replace damaged tissue in the heart and other organs.
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Cord Blood Cells Proven to Differentiate into Heart Muscle and Brain Cells
Scientists at the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center have scientifically validated for the first time that stem cells in umbilical cord blood can infiltrate damaged heart tissue and transform themselves into the kind of heart cells needed to halt further damage.
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Chicks Used to Create Nerve Cells
Scientists have transformed stem cells from adult human bone marrow into nerve cells by transplanting them into damaged chicken embryos.
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All India Institute of Medical Science Uses Robot to Inject Stem Cells in Human Heart
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Early Trial Indicates Prostate Cancer Vaccine Increases Immunity And Reduces Tumor Cells
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UCLA Launches $20M Stem Cell Institute to Investigate HIV, Cancer, and Neurological Disorders
Experts in bioengineering, imaging, molecular genetics, immunology, ethics, hematology/oncology and cellular biology to collaborate on Proposition 71 research.
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Novel Ultrafast Laser Detection of Cancer Cells Also May Improve Understanding of Stem Cells
To investigate tumors, pathologists currently rely on labor-intensive microscopic examination, using century-old cell-staining methods that can take days to complete and may give false readings.
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Benefits of Allergen Immunotherapy Persist
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Advances in Immunotherapy for Allergies Presented
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Regulatory T Cells Checks the Immune System
The April issue of Nature Immunology* examines the state-of-the-art understanding in the biology of regulatory T cells and how they may directly affect many conditions, including autoimmune diseases, cancer, allergy, infectious diseases and transplantation.
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A New Setback for Gene Therapy
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Hong Kong Develops Novel Gene Therapy for Colon Cancer
The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong announced Friday its discovery of a novel method of gene therapy for Colon Cancer.
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Antibody Enhances Effect of Leading Cancer Drug
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Three Risk Factors Have the Greatest Impact on Patient and Graft Survival Rates for Liver Transplantation
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Harvard Provost OK’s Cloning of Cells
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A Modified Cord Blood Collection Method Achieves Sufficient Cell Levels for Transplantation in Most Adult Patients
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Development of a Perfusion Fed Bioreactor for Embryonic Stem Cell-derived Cardiomyocyte Generation: Oxygen-mediated Enhancement of Cardiomyocyte Output
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Multipotent Stem Cells from Adult Olfactory Mucosa
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Specific Targets in Tumor Tissue for the Delivery of Therapeutic Genes
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