Stem Cell Research News

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Main Category: Stem Cell Research Also Included In: Biology / Biochemistry ; Genetics Article Date: 29 Jun 2009 - 0:00 PDT The Stowers Institute's Xie Lab has revealed how the BAM protein affects germline stem cell differentiation and how it is involved in regulating the quality of stem cells through intercellular competition.

The Center for Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine , comprised of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic , University Hospitals , and Athersys, Inc.

As far as medical researchers know, no state ever has allowed taxpayer funds to pay women for donating their eggs for embryonic stem cell research.

For Thomas Clegg, the Obama administration's decision in March to lift certain restrictions on government funding of stem cell research was beside the point.

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 another.

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 away.

Cellular Dynamics International Inc. , a firm co-founded by stem cell pioneer and University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher James Thomson, is expanding a research and development agreement with Swiss pharmaceutical firm Roche .

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 Medicine.

The granulocyte-colony stimulating factor significantly reduced levels of the brain-clogging protein beta amyloid deposited in excess in the brains of the Alzheimer's mice, increased the production of new neurons and promoted nerve cell connections.

Neural stem cells represent the cellular backup of our brain. These cells are capable of self-renewal to form new stem cells or differentiate into neurons, astrocytes or oligodendrocytes.

Tue Jun 30, 2009 4:36pm EDT - Vials of extra-embryonic stem cells are pictured at a stem cell research center at the University of California San Francisco March 10, 2009.

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 heart.

Geron Corp., the Menlo Park biopharmaceutical company that received U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance for the first human embryonic stem cell clinical trial, rose as much as 22 percent in Nasdaq trading after announcing a partnership with a General Electric Co.

Doctors at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute announced today the completion of the first procedure in which a patient's own heart tissue was used to grow specialized heart stem cells that were then injected back into the patient's heart in an effort to repair and re-grow healthy muscle in a heart that had been injured by a heart attack.

The discovery of stem cells only occurred ten years ago, but there are huge, probably excessive expectations of their medical importance and the speed with which stem cell therapies will enter clinical practice.

Geron Corp. and GE Healthcare , a unit of General Electric Co., said Tuesday they will collaborate to develop and commercialize cellular assay products derived from human embryonic stem cells.

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