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Main Category: Neurology / Neuroscience Also Included In: Stem Cell Research ; Regulatory Affairs / Drug Approvals ; Clinical Trials / Drug Trials Article Date: 10 Nov 2009 - 6:00 PST The first human embryonic stem cell treatment approved by the FDA for human testing has been shown to restore limb function in rats with neck spinal cord injuries - a ...

Human embryonic stem cells could help people with learning and memory deficits after radiation treatment for brain tumors, suggests a new UC Irvine study.

Syprosoft announced today that it has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for the development of a data mining system for improving the management of critical diseases and achieving better patient outcomes.

UC Irvine's embryonic stem cell therapy a ' which is the first approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for human testing a ' is showing positive results.

Many of Chapman University's current students weren't born when the Berlin Wall fell, 20 years ago Monday.

QuantumSphere is seven years old, founded and operated by a University of California Irvine grad in Santa Ana, one of the country's most impoverished cities, with capital he raised for himself.

No need to curse that bad driver weaving in and out of the lane in front of you -- he cannot help it, U.S. researchers recently reported.

Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace dedicated the first half of his November 1 program to an interview with radio host Rush Limbaugh, during which Wallace allowed and in some cases prompted Limbaugh to advance numerous misleading, baseless, or outrageous claims, as well as engage in inflammatory attacks on President Obama.

A robot powered by a computerized model of a rodent brain will help researchers from UC Irvine and UC San Diego understand how people recognize and adapt to change.

As the health care battle moved forward last week, Phil Davis, a senior Christian Science church official, hurriedly delivered bundles of letters to Senate offices promoting a little-noticed proposal in the legislation requiring insurers to consider covering the church's prayer treatments just as they do other medical expenses.

Perhaps this explains what one police officer I know calls "DWO" - Driving While Oriental : Bad drivers may in part have their genes to blame, suggests a new study by UC Irvine neuroscientists.

I've been a fan of Mizuko Ito 's work for a long time, and I was fortunate to be one of the 2008 winners in the MacArthur Foundation/HASTAC Digital Media and Learning Competition , so I was delighted to hear of the launch of the DML Research Hub .

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says Congress' federal stimulus program has saved or created 8,356 jobs in the University of California system, a claim that comes as a surprise at UC Irvine, Orange County's largest employer.

I attended a panel discussion Wednesday night at UC Irvine on the future of the automobile, part of OCTANe 's clean tech program.

Erwin Chemerinsky, attorney for Leandro Andrade, chats with reporters outside the Supreme Court in 2002.

Women who regularly use nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs have better survival after a colorectal cancer diagnosis, research indicates.

Brian Cheeseborough, a 1990 graduate of Tulare Union High School, had been selling commercial real estate in Southern California for seven years when the Sept.

Last week, the Justice Department ordered its staff to back off prosecution of people who use marijuana for medical purposes in the 14 states in which such use is legal.

People with a particular gene variant performed more than 20 percent worse on a driving test than people without it -- and a follow-up test a few days later yielded similar results.

Sadly, it's just such a goal that probably made it a "legitimate" target for the Taliban, for whom a healthy public sphere populated by educated citizens willing and able to challenge, potentially democratize, and clean up their government would pose at least as big threat to its position in the country as the army they are now fighting in the ...