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“But also, this kind of public-private investment in a growing jobs sector is exactly the kind of good news our economy needs right now.”
USC, UCLA and UC Irvine were among 12 academic and nonprofit institutions in California to receive funds from $271 million in grants awarded Wednesday by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine [...]

“Nanog uses these proteins to control gene expression and maybe also the chromatin state. When there is deacetylation, the gene is in a passive state.”
Association determines fate in embryonic stem cells, said Baylor College of Medicine researchers in a report that appears in the current issue of the journal Nature Cell Biology. via EurekAlert! [...]

“This is really exciting, just to overcome this obstacle of tumorigenicity”
Stem Cell Research News posted 2/20/08 0 comments In a new study, rats were spared the limb-weakening effects of a stroke if they were treated with brain tissue cultivated from human embryonic stem cells. via Scientific American

Waiting for the trials: Scientific justice and moral right in stem …Medill Reports, IL - 20 hours agoby Paul Dailing Dr. Nick Strelchenko at the Chicago-based Reproductive Genetics Institute, obtained through the International Society for Stem Cell Research …

Author : Maryland Stem Cell Research CommissionEarthtimes (press release), UK - May 8, 2008COLUMBIA, Md., May 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission (Commission) has completed its evaluation of the 122 applications …

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Stem-cell bill narrowly passes HouseMinneapolis Star Tribune, MN - May 7, 2008A proposal that would allow the University of Minnesota to spend state money on stem cell research narrowly passed the House on Wednesday. …House approves stem cell measure Pioneer PressHouse votes to allow aid for embryonic stem cell research Duluth News TribuneWedge week! Minnesota Public [...]

A team of researchers led by scientists at Cold Spring Harbour laboratory have identified stem cells in the pitutary gland of the mice that helps it grow even after birth. “This gland develops in the embryo, but then has a second growth spurt. After few weeks of their birth, the pituitary undergoes massive expansion due [...]

At a conference in Edinburgh this week, stem cell researchers have discussed about stem cell treatment of deadly diseases like type 1 diabetes, blindness and Parkinson’s and even heart disease and stroke. Researchers told that stem cell research has so far been successful in treating diseases like cancer and age related blindness. These diseases [...]

A new stem cell therapy is introduced for the spinal cord injuries known as Mesenchymal Stem cell (MSC) therapy. This research was conducted by a team of doctors at Stempeutics Research, Bangalore.
In this research, the MSC’s were directly injected into the spinal cord of the patients for maximum efficacy. It was injected either intra-arterially [...]

“Our remit is to support high quality translational projects whose direct aim is rapid and safe progression towards clinical application.”
New stem cell research which could lead to therapies to mend livers and bones was revealed yesterday. via The Herald