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    Heart Stem Cells Move Closer to Human Treatments

    (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...
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    Adult stem cell research far ahead of embryonic

    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...
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    Stem Cell Researcher's Gather in SF

    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...
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    Ageing Brains Show Great Promise for Rejuvenation

    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...
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    New stem cell method requires a little soak

    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...
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    Grafts made from patients' cells show promise

    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...
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    Scientists remove cancer genes from stem cells

    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...
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    Researchers find safer way to make stem cells

    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...
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    Stem cell transplants show promise for MS: study

    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...
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    FDA allows first test of human stem cell therap

    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...
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    New drug combo may boost stem cell production

    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...
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    Scientists coax brain cells in mice to regenerate

    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...
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    New Research to create Stem Cells

    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...
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    Stem Cell Surgery for Vets Gets Federal Backing

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

    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...
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    Finnish patient gets new jaw from own stem cells

    Fri Feb 1, 1:47 PM ET Scientists in Finland said they had replaced a 65-year-old patient's upper jaw with a bone transplant cultivated from stem cells isolated from his own fatty tissue and grown inside his abdomen.Researchers said on Friday the breakthrough opened up new ways to treat severe...
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    Could High Nitric Oxide Production Contribute to Increased Oxygen in the Blood?

    This was sourced from the Cleveland Clinic Newsletter. The Nitric Oxide is an important item in moving oxygen in the blood. These people exist at 14,000' levels. January 2008 Could High Nitric Oxide Production Contribute to Increased Oxygen in the Blood? How can some people live at high...
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    Embryo-friendly technique produces stem cells

    Embryo-friendly technique produces stem cells By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor Thu Jan 10, 12:30 PM ET A company that devised a way to make embryonic stem cells using a technique it said does not harm human embryos reported on Thursday it has grown five batches of cells using this method...
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    [B]"Virgin" birth stem cells may offer tissue bank[/B]

    By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor Wed Dec 19, 1:57 PM ET Human egg cells can be tweaked to give rise to valued stem cells that match the tissue types of many different groups of people, U.S. and Russian researchers reported on Wednesday. They said the stem cells they have created from...
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    Stem-cell patch may fix damaged hearts

    Stem-cell patch may fix damaged hearts By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have made two significant advances in developing a stem-cell patch to repair the damage caused to the heart after an attack. Sian Harding of London's Imperial College said on Thursday her team had successfully...
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