Regulation of hematopoietic stem cell trafficking and mobilization by ...
Posting Date: 2/04/12 3:20pm
We recently showed that these receptors are expressed in murine and human hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) and that CB(2) agonists induced chemotaxis, enhanced colony formation of marrow cells, as well as caused in vivo mobilization of ...
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Are Cancer Stem Cells Ready for Prime Time?
Posting Date: 2/04/12 3:19pm
A flood of new discoveries has refined our definition of cancer stem cells. Now it's up to human clinical trials to test if they can make a difference in patients. By Suling Liu, Hasan Korkaya, and Max S. Wicha | April 1, 2012 In the 30-year battle ...
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Diversity of intestinal stem cells is greater than previously thought
Posting Date: 2/04/12 3:18pm
By focusing on one protein expressed in our intestines called Lrig1, the researchers have identified a special population of intestinal stem cells that respond to damage and help to prevent cancer. The research, published in the March 30 issue of Cell, ...
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Pluripotent Stem Cell–Based Cancer Therapy: Promise and ...
Posting Date: 2/04/12 3:15pm
Sci Transl Med 28 March 2012: Vol. 4, Issue 127, p. 127ps9. Sci. Transl. Med. DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3003920. Perspective. STEM CELL THERAPY ...
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Transforming scar tissue into beating hearts: The next instalment
Posting Date: 2/04/12 3:14pm
The work , which took place in a Petri dish, was considered groundbreaking since it showed for the first time that unrelated adult cells could be reprogrammed from one cell type to another without having to go all the way back to a stem cell state ...
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Clinical Trials of Stem Cell Research Debate - Are Stem Cells Still ...
Posting Date: 2/04/12 3:09pm
With the new display of positive results in the first clinical trials of stem cell research, what should their role now be in the medical field? Inside E Street's Lark ...
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Stem cell population may hold colon cancer clues
Posting Date: 2/04/12 3:06pm
3/29/2012 - Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center researchers have identified a new population of intestinal stem cells that may hold clues to the origin of colorectal cancer. This new stem cell population, reported March 30 in the journal Cell, ...
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Vatican Cancels Stem-Cell Conference After Scientists Refuse to Be Censored
Posting Date: 2/04/12 3:06pm
So onlookers were surprised when the Vatican announced it would be hosting a global conference on the highly controversial issue of stem-cell research in Rome over four days in late April. The church held a similar conference in 2010 and 2011, ...
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Cord Blood Banking to Drive the US Stem Cell Market
Posting Date: 2/04/12 3:03pm
The market for stem cells is constantly evolving, with researches going on to exploit the true potential of the market worldwide. The US is the major market for stem cell therapy as it has some key advantages over other countries ...
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US Stem Cell Market Set for Stupendous Growth
Posting Date: 2/04/12 3:02pm
With the increasing competition among pharma and biotech majors, the demand for discovery of new drugs has increased, which, in turn, has boosted the demand of stem cell applications. US is the major stem cell market in the world as the country is ...
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Will Stem Cells Eventually Cure All Disease?
Posting Date: 2/04/12 2:58pm
Few areas of medical research are generating as much interest as stem cells. There are several reasons why they are receiving so much scientific attention. They are able to divide into copies of themselves. They're unspecialized ...
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Cell Stem Cell - Direct Reprogramming of Fibroblasts into Neural ...
Posting Date: 2/04/12 1:51pm
Department of Stem Cell Biology, School of Medicine, SMART Institute of Advanced Biomedical Science, Konkuk University, 1 Hwayang-dong, Gwangjin- gu, ...
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Cell Therapy Improves Damaged Heart In Study
Posting Date: 2/04/12 1:48pm
Researchers found that left ventricular ejection fraction increased by 2.7 percent in patients who received stem cell therapy. The study, which was presented at the American College of Cardiology's 61st Annual Scientific Session, revealed that the ...
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Stem Cells Revisited
Posting Date: 2/04/12 1:48pm
Embryonic stem cell research -- a bitterly partisan federal issue that has been debated in previous presidential campaigns -- has been almost absent from the early stages of this year's presidential race. The practice, which was allowed on an extremely ...
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Michael J. Fox on Rick Santorum and Stem Cell Research
Posting Date: 2/04/12 1:44pm
In a recent Piers Morgan interview, Michael J. Fox is asked about Rick Santorum's views on stem cell research. Here's one of a number of comments by Santorum on federal Stem Cell research, which he opposes ...
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Stem cell procedure a success
Posting Date: 2/04/12 1:37pm
WACH-Fox cameras were there last month when Phibbs took Maggie to her long time veterinarian for stem cell therapy; a one-time procedure rarely performed on animals; in hopes it would bring Maggie some relief from the pain. "We took about a half a cup ...
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Somatic stem cells obtained from skin cells for the first time
Posting Date: 2/04/12 1:36pm
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Münster, Germany, have succeeded in obtaining somatic stem cells from fully differentiated somatic cells. Stem cell researcher Hans Schöler and his team took skin cells from mice and, ...
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Canceled Stem Cell Conference is Another Black Eye for the Vatican
Posting Date: 2/04/12 1:36pm
The latest black eye comes with the report this past Friday that the Pontifical Academy for Life is canceling a much publicized stem cell conference that was to take place next month, featuring (among many others) speakers like Douglas Melton and ...
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Houston study shows stem-cell's potential for heart treatment
Posting Date: 2/04/12 1:21pm
By Todd Ackerman Houston researchers are reporting that adult stem cells have a modest benefit in younger patients with heart failure, the first large-scale evidence that the controversial yet promising new therapy can be developed to help millions of ...
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Embryonic stem cells shift metabolism in cancer-like way upon implanting in uterus
Posting Date: 26/03/12 3:17pm
23, 2012) — Shortly after a mouse embryo starts to form, some of its stem cells undergo a dramatic metabolic shift to enter the next stage of development, Seattle researchers have reported. These stem cells start using and producing energy like cancer ...
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