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It seems the Vatican is back in action once again. In its ever going battle against the stem cell, it has gone a step forward and fired a warning shot over the bows of Barack Obama in response to the President-elect’s intention to lift the US ban on embryonic stem cell research. Cardinal Javier Lozano [...]

Los Angeles based leading biotechnology company Capricor Inc. today announced results of the preclinical studies of its cardiosphere-derived stem cells. The study shows possibility to protect the heart significantly better, when the cell is transplanted into a well-established mouse model of myocardial infarction (MI).
In this preclinical study, Dr. Ruckdeschel Smith and research collaboratorsat Johns Hopkins [...]

For 8 year old Hayley Pelletier,her trip to China can be journey of life. This USA based child was suffering from optic nerve hypoplasia, the single leading cause of blindness and visual impairment in children from her birth.
She is planing to go to China with her father for stem cell treatment. The journey and treatment [...]

Emory University researchers have found the dental pulp stem cells from Monkey can be used to stimulate growth and generation of several types of neural cells. Thus the study provides a ray of hope for cell therapy and regenerative medicine.
Yerkes researcher Anthony Chan, DVM, PhD, and his team of researchers placed dental pulp stem cells [...]

A University of Southern California stem cell study can be a breakthrough in the regenerative medicine and cancer therapies. The researchers have found protein receptor Ryk has a key role in the differentiation of neural stem cells. The study will be published in the Nov. 11 issue of the journal Developmental Cell.
During brain development, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Barack Obama’s victory has raised hope for the Fox Foundation for fund raising for stem cell research. The mood was giddy at the annual fundraiser benefiting The Michael J. Fox Foundation a day after the Presidential election.
One big issue for Fox, who has Parkinson’s, is stem cell research and the possibility it represents [...]