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“And then we don’t always have to go back to the stem cell. We already have the cell that’s poised and ready to make the heart cells.”
A Canadian-led international research team has determined how to grow early-stage human heart cells from embryonic stem cells, a step that could one day allow scientists to create [...]

“We’ve got complete control of this process, and that’s unique”
A breakthrough in stem cell research. Until now, it was necessary to use embryonic stem cells to make this happen. via Science Daily

“My vision for a patient coming into a clinic in 10 or maybe 15 years’ time is they will be given a mixture of drugs to prevent the inflammation and to promote repair. That way, MS would no longer be a chronic, disabling disease.”
Stem-cell treatment could be used to help reverse the effects of [...]

It’s one of the wonderful things about blogs.  You can find really smart people who are blogging their thoughts rather than writing super long, boring reports.  And if those people are economists, how great is that?  If you are NOT someone who likes to spend much time on economic reading, you might enjoy the WorldBank’s [...]

After years of searching, Shinya Yamanaka found a way to turn adult skin cells into the equivalent of human embryonic stem cells without using an actual embryo.

MITCH LONGLEY, an actor on the NBC series “Las Vegas,” remembers that day in Rowayton 24 years ago when hundreds of friends, relatives and well-wishers from the community gave him a surprise 18th birthday party and presented him a Buick, wrapped in a bow, that he could drive on his own, with his hands.

If stem cell researchers were oil prospectors, it could be said that they struck a gusher last week. But to realize the potential boundless riches they now must figure out how to build refineries, pipelines and gas stations. Biologists were electrified on Tuesday, when scientists in Japan and Wisconsin reported that they could turn human [...]

Stem Cell Therapeutics Corp. Receives "May Proceed" From FDA for …FOXBusiness - 18 hours agoAbout Stem Cell Therapeutics Corp.: Stem Cell Therapeutics Corp. is a Canadian public biotechnology company (TSX VENTURE:SSS) focused on the development and …

Qld opens national stem cell research centreABC Online, Australia - 21 hours agoQueensland Premier Anna Bligh has opened a new centre for stem cell research in Brisbane. The $18 million research facility at the Griffith University …

Health ministry awaiting certificate to approve stem cell drugJamaica Observer, Jamaica - Apr 21, 2008THE Health Ministry could soon approve a stem cell drug - StemEnhance - believed to have the ability to boost the body's capacity to fight off diseases. …