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“When you find small tumours, a melanoma or colon polyp, for example, the cure rate is over 95 per cent”
The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research will announce $60 million in funding today to help scientists come up with better ways to diagnose and fight cancer at its earliest, and most treatable, stages. via The [...]

“Checking the genome give us a way to make sure the resulting IPS cells were not from immature cells.”
Fully mature, differentiated B cells can be reprogrammed to an embryonic-stem-cell-like state, without the use of an egg according to a study published in the April 18 issue of Cell. via Huliq.com

“This means that, unlike other cells, the stem cell has lost control over its own population size”
A drug that targets the cell surface receptors that play an important role in many types of cancer can bring about significant tumour regression in breast cancer after only six weeks of use, a scientist told … via [...]

Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplants May Be Best Option for T-Cell …Cancer Consultants, ID - Apr 18, 2008Researchers from France affiliated with the Societe Francaise de Greffe de Moelle et de Therapies Cellulaire have reported that allogeneic stem cell …

UCSF Today

Stem Cell Research Pioneer to Deliver Faculty Research LectureUCSF Today, CA - Apr 18, 2008The campus community is invited to hear stem cell research pioneer Gail R. Martin, PhD, professor of anatomy, deliver the Academic Senate Faculty Research …

Mature Mouse Cells Reprogrammed to Stem Cell-Like StateU.S. News & World Report, DC - Apr 17, 2008… Without using an egg, researchers have been able to reprogram certain mature cells back to an embryonic-stem-cell-like state, a new report says. …

Mature B Cells Reprogrammed To Stem-cell-like StateScience Daily (press release) - Apr 17, 2008ScienceDaily (Apr. 17, 2008) — Fully mature, differentiated B cells can be reprogrammed to an embryonic-stem-cell-like state, without the use of an egg …