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Stem cells have great promise, but it won’t be realized without a lot of clinical trials and errors, and likely some tragic side effects and missteps.

Researchers have discovered that a mother’s cells slip across the placenta, enter the fetus’s body and teach it to treat these cells as its own.

Stem Cell Therapeutics Corp. is a Canadian public biotechnology company (TSX VENTURE: SSS) focused on the development and commercialization of drug-based therapies to treat central nervous system diseases. They develop treatments that utilize drugs to stimulate patient’s own stem cells.
Drs. Steven Cramer, Michael Hill and David Brown conducted clinical trial of beta-human Chorionic Gonadotropin (b-hCG) [...]

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Adult stem cells provide real curesBaltimore Sun, United StatesAdult stem cell research has produced treatments for 73 different conditions, while embryonic stem cell research has not produced a single therapy or helped a single patient. But those facts were conveniently omitted from a recent column advocating …Researchers make nerve cells from new "stem" cells ReutersAn [...]

Stem Cells: Ideology Or Science?

Medical Advancement: It’s the supporters of embryonic stem cell research who have politicized science.

F.D.A. Approves a Stem Cell Trial

The government will allow the world’s first test in people of a therapy derived from human embryonic stem cells.

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Esophagus Stem Cell DiscoveryAdvance for Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists, PAResearchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, in Philadelphia, have discovered stem cells in the esophagus of mice that are able to grow into tissue-like structures and form parts of an esophagus lining when placed into …Researchers settle debate by isolating and tracking heart stem [...]

Crohn’s disease is a chronic genetic disease that affects 1% of the population in Spain. It occurs when the immune system loses tolerance to the patient’s own intestinal flora, leading to an abnormal inflammatory response that continues over time.
Diagnosis is often difficult because it presents symptoms similar to those of other diseases of the digestive [...]

The U.S. regulatory climate is so conservative that Europe will probably take the lead in producing commercial products from human stem cells, Aastrom Biosciences Inc’s chief executive said.

Leaders are weighing a quick executive order against legislation, which risks a fight but would be permanent.

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