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Stem Cell Sciences plc today announced to have licensed IRES technology to a leading provider of genetically modified rat and mouse models for medical and pharmaceutical research.
Under the terms of the multi-year agreement, which is non-exclusive and retroactive, the undisclosed partner will gain access to the IRES technology for use in its own research and [...]
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According to cardiologists hundreds and thousands of babies born every year with defective hearts, heart valve abnormalities are one of the most common kinds of inherited heart defects In these babies.
Stem cells collected at birth from the umbilical cord from this babies may help doctors to provide new heart valves for them.
The researchers reported the [...]
Posted in Research on November 13th, 2008 No Comments »
By Sheree Bega A Free State man who severed the spinal cord of a pregnant wild vervet monkey and removed its foetus for a backyard stem cell research experiment has been slammed as “callous” and “sadistic”. In …
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Transition advisers to President-elect Barack Obama have compiled a list of about 200 Bush administration actions and executive orders that could be swiftly undone to reverse White House policies on climate …
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Transition advisers to President-elect Barack Obama have compiled a list of about 200 Bush administration actions and executive orders that could be swiftly undone to reverse White House policies on climate …
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Storing some of your body’s stem cells for future use at the onset of a debilitating, if not deadly, heart disorder or other disease is a thing of the future – right? Not for the LifeSource Cryobank in …
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ABC News
A decade of embryonic stem cell researchHindu, India - 17 hours agoWith embryonic stem cell research stifled, scientists in the US had to turn their attention to adult stem cells. They have achieved a lot in this area, …Vatican fires off warning to Barack Obama over stem cell research Times OnlineStem Cell Solution Washington PostObama election [...]
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Molecular Clipping Mechanism Confirmed Behind Stem Cell DevelopmentScience Daily (press release) - Nov 11, 2008In addition to the finding’s implications for understanding gene expression in embryonic stem cell differentiation, the role of acetylation in H3 clipping …
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Adult stem cell is likely to be more effective than ever before. And the keyword is a chemical called SLeX. Researchers are claiming to have find the use of it to make stem cell more therapeutically effective.
The cultured cells include mesenchymal stem cells, which can form fat cells, cartilage, bone, tendon and ligaments, muscle cells, [...]
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The US President Barack Obama has finally come to action. As his first step, he decides to go against the policies of George W Bush regarding stem cell research and domestic drilling for oil and natural gas. He is reviewing Bush’s executive orders on those two issues and others.
John Podesta, Obama’s transition chief, told [...]