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| New stem cell method makes viable liver cells |
| * Scientists correct gene mutation, grow new liver cells in mice |
| Read More...(Source: msnbc.com: Cloning and stem cells - Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:21:16 GMT) |
| Opinion: Stem cell clinics ripping off patients |
| No one likes a bully. Intimidation is a rotten way to get what you want. Yet that's what some in the stem cell therapy industry are trying to do to a group of scientists trying to speak up about the often fraudulent nature of their business, writes bioethicist Art Caplan. |
| Read More...(Source: msnbc.com: Cloning and stem cells - Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:19:40 GMT) |
| Scientists recreate heart defect in a lab dish |
| Using skin cells taken from children with a rare heart defect, researchers have created beating heart cells in the lab with the same heart defect, allowing researchers to test new drugs in human cells instead of mice. |
| Read More...(Source: msnbc.com: Cloning and stem cells - Wed, 9 Feb 2011 19:05:13 GMT) |
| Stem cells could get pup walking again |
| The 3-year-old lab has trouble walking, but vets are optimistic that she'll live pain-free. |
| Read More...(Source: msnbc.com: Cloning and stem cells - Wed, 9 Feb 2011 21:23:18 GMT) |
| Progress being made with stem cell alternative |
| A new method, which is a more efficient way of turning skin cells into stem cells, could be the first practical way to make cells for creating new tissue to treat conditions like diabetes and Parkinson's disease. |
| Read More...(Source: msnbc.com: Cloning and stem cells - Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:42:43 GMT) |
| Study Of A Pediatric Cancer Finds All Cancer Cells Are Not Created Equal |
| A study from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers suggests that specific populations of tumor cells have different roles in the process by which tumors make new copies of themselves and grow... |
| Read More...(Source: Stem Cell Research News From Medical News Today - Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT) |
| Marker To Identify, Attack Breast Cancer Stem Cells |
| Breast cancer stem cells wear a cell surface protein that is part nametag and part bull's eye, identifying them as potent tumor-generating cells and flagging their vulnerability to a drug, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center report online in Journal of Clinical Investigation... |
| Read More...(Source: Stem Cell Research News From Medical News Today - Wed, 16 May 2012 09:00:00 PDT) |
| After Stem Cell Transplant For Multiple Myeloma Patients, Lenalidomide Prolongs Disease Control |
| Multiple myeloma patients are better equipped to halt progression of this blood cancer if treated with lenalidomide, or Revlimid®, following a stem cell transplant, according to a study co-authored by a physician with the Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute... |
| Read More...(Source: Stem Cell Research News From Medical News Today - Wed, 16 May 2012 09:00:00 PDT) |
| Scientist Grows Bone From Human Embryonic Stem Cells |
| Dr. Darja Marolt, an Investigator at The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) Laboratory, is lead author on a study showing that human embryonic stem cells can be used to grow bone tissue grafts for use in research and potential therapeutic application. Dr. Marolt conducted this research as a post-doctoral NYSCF - Druckenmiller Fellow at Columbia University in the laboratory of Dr... |
| Read More...(Source: Stem Cell Research News From Medical News Today - Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT) |
| Greater Diversity Than Expected Found In Children's Brain Tumors |
| Paediatric brain tumours preserve specific characteristics of the normal cells from which they originate - a previously unknown circumstance with ramifications for how tumour cells respond to treatment. This has been shown by Uppsala researcher Fredrik Swartling together with colleagues in the U.S., Canada and England in a study that was published in the distinguished journal Cancer Cell... |
| Read More...(Source: Stem Cell Research News From Medical News Today - Tue, 15 May 2012 03:00:00 PDT) |