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(HealthDay News) -- Researchers are moving ahead -- although sometimes ploddingly -- toward the goal of using stem cell therapies to rescue people with cardiovascular disease, the leading killer of men and women in the United States. Although much of the gains thus far have been in basic...

Mon Aug 2, 2010 12:02 AM EDT us, stem-cells, health, cells, med, thomas-einhorn Malcolm Ritter, AP Science Writer < PreviousNext >showing 1 of 3 photos(not shown) This image from an Italian study published June 23, 2010 by the New England Journal of Medicine shows the eyes of three patients...

Thursday, June 17, 2010 (SF Chronicle) Stem cell researchers gather in San Francisco <a class="email fn" href="mailto:eallday@sfchronicle.com">Erin Allday, Chronicle Staff Writer</a> The biggest stars of stem cell research are converging on San Francisco this week for a global conference...

June 24th, 2009 in Medicine & Health / Neuroscience (PhysOrg.com) -- UQ neuroscientists have, for the first time, been able to demonstrate that moderate exercise significantly increases the number of neural stem cells in the ageing brain. In research published in Stem Cells, Dr Daniel Blackmore...

Reuters ? By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor ? Thu Apr 23, 12:47 pm ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? Researchers have developed a new way to make embryonic-like stem cells by soaking them in genetically engineered proteins, a new step toward using ordinary cells to treat disease. An international...

Reuters ? Thu Apr 23, 7:01 pm ET CHICAGO (Reuters) ? The first vein grafts made entirely of a patient's own cells showed promise in a long-term study of 10 seriously ill kidney dialysis patients, U.S. researchers said on Thursday. The tissue-engineered grafts were grown over a period of six...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? Scientists have taken another important step toward using ordinary skin cells that are made to behave like embryonic stem cells to find treatments for conditions like Parkinson's disease. Researchers at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Massachusetts...

By Ben Hirschler ?Yahoo News Mon Mar 2, 8:18 am ET LONDON (Reuters) ? Researchers said on Sunday they had found a safer way to transform ordinary skin cells into powerful stem cells in a move that could eventually remove the need to use human embryos. It is the first time that scientists have...

By Julie Steenhuysen ? Thu Jan 29, 7:03 pm ET Reuters ? Microscopic view of undifferentiated human embryonic stem cells are seen in a handout photo. (University ? CHICAGO (Reuters) ? U.S. researchers have reversed multiple sclerosis symptoms in early stage patients by using bone marrow stem...

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor Fri Jan 23, 11:51 am ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared the way for the first trial to see if human embryonic stem cells can treat people safely, a company involved in the controversial research on Friday. Geron...

By Michael Kahn ? Thu Jan 8, 11:51 am ET LONDON (Reuters) ? A novel drug combination using Genzyme Corp's Mozobil shows it may be possible to spur bone marrow into releasing extra adult stem cells into the bloodstream to repair the heart and broken bones, researchers said on Thursday. The study...

By Julie Steenhuysen ? CHICAGO (Reuters) ? Scientists have found a way to get damaged nerve cells in the brains of mice to repair themselves, a finding that may lead to new treatments for spinal cord and brain injuries. By turning off proteins that keep nerve cell growth in check, the...

Researchers find easier way to make stem cells By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor Researchers trying to find ways to transform ordinary skin cells into powerful stem cells said on Sunday they found a shortcut by "sprinkling" a chemical onto the cells. Adding the chemical allowed the team...

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=4666895&page=1 This is a boost for bone marrow stem cell therapy

Stem cell therapy breakthrough Bernadette Tansey, Chronicle Staff Writer Thursday, March 6, 2008 Researchers in San Francisco have discovered a new way to nudge human embryonic stem cells to form specialized cells - a potentially huge step toward the development of stem cell therapies to repair...