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23 hours ago by SkinDoc

UCLA researchers have found that embryonic stem cells and skin cells reprogrammed into embryonic-like cells have inherent molecular differences, demonstrating for the first time that the two cell types are clearly distinguishable from one another. The data from the study suggest that embryonic stem ...

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1 day ago by davidkirkpatrick

Two releases from yesterday on stem cells. Number one is on the found differences between reprogrammed skin cells and embryonic stem cells. Second is a call for stem cell debates by bioethicists before the science gets too far ahead of ethical considerations. The first release: UCLA scientists find ...

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3 days ago by Admin

One of the arguments for federal funding of embryonic stem cells -- in light of the progress being made in Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell technology -- is pretty straight forward. Researchers have... This is a content summary only. Visit our website for full links, other content, and more! Thanks!

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3 days ago by Eliza Strickland

Although ethical debates about the use of embryonic stem cells continue to rage, stem cell technology is beginning to make its way into the medical marketplace. Yesterday, General Electric division GE Healthcare announced that it’s teaming up with the biotechnology company Geron in a venture that wi ...

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5 days ago by Chris Seper

Sen. Steve Buehrer COLUMBUS, Ohio — Some stem-cell advocates mistakenly assumed that the end of a federal funding ban on embryonic stem-cell research would end debate among lawmakers who worry about the moral and ethical problems around the issue. But the debate about the progenitor cells sometimes ...

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9 days ago by Steve

“Today’s Financial Times has a full page analysis (’An industry to grow‘) that examines aspects of state-society-economy relations with respect to stem cell research. The author, Clive Cookson (who also runs the FT.com Science Blog), deftly weaves five threads through the article: the role of the st ...

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10 days ago by Aaron Saenz

If you like controversy there’s nothing that will bring you more joy than yelling “stem cell research” in a mixed crowd and then sadistically sneaking out of the room. The debate over the use of the extremely potent little cells has led to massive regulation in all realms of stem cell transplants in ...

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11 days ago by pmb

Multiple sclerosis, diabetic neuropathy, and other conditions caused by a loss of myelin insulation around nerves can be debilitating and even deadly, but adequate treatments do not yet exist. That’s in large part because of deficiencies in model research systems. In an upcoming issue of the journal ...

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12 days ago by BGR

A study conducted by Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland is the first to reveal a new avenue for harvesting stem cells from a woman’s placenta, or more specifically the discarded placentas of healthy newborns. The study also finds there are far more stem cells in placentas than in umbilica ...

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12 days ago

In the June 19th online edition of Stem Cells, scientsist from Sun Yet-Sen University (Guangzhou, China), Z. Chen et al., reported their experimental results on using parthenogenesis to form parthenote mice. With parthenogenetic embryonic stem cells (pESCs), the researchers conducted a study in comp ...

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