Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Stem Cell News - June 21, 2011

Science of the silver fox: Why hair goes gray
msnbc.com
For the first time, researchers have identified the signaling protein that coordinates the process between hair follicle stem cells, which produce hair, and color-supplying stem cells, or melanocytes. "We have shown that one specific molecular pathway ...


Stem-Cell Gamble
MIT Technology Review
After years of controversy, a therapy based on human embryonic stem cells is finally being tested in humans. The treatment holds out hope to paralyzed people, but at how great a risk? By Antonio Regalado Full of hope: TJ Atchison was the first patient ...


Reportlinker Adds The Stem Cell Market Outlook
Sacramento Bee
By Reportlinker This report covers the commercialization of stem cells (primarily derived from adult tissues) which are transplanted into patients to improve the function of diseased/damaged tissues/organs. Six indications are covered in detail. ...

BioLife Solutions, Inc. (BLFS) Now Leading Supplier of Cryopreservation Media ...
International Business Times
The company today announced that it has become the leading supplier of pre-formulated GMP cryopreservation media for umbilical cord blood stem cells. This is a key segment of BioLife's strategic biobanking market. BioLife Solutions captured a ...

Pigs could grow human organs in stem cell breakthrough which could solve organ ...
Daily Mail
Scientists have found that by injecting stem cells into the embryo of one species, they can create animals that have organs belonging to another species. The researchers injected stem cells from rats into the embryos of mice that had been genetically ...


Human adult stem cells growing on a textile implant
Fibre2fashion.com
First of all, they successfully differentiated adult stem cells into fat cells while growing them on biodegradable fibres. Using the same method, they were then able to grow human adult stem cells on three-dimensional implants and differentiated them ...

Two Hutchinson Center researchers receive prestigious awards from Damon Runyon ...
Hutchinson Center A Life of Science
Certain immune cells, called T cells, contained in the donor stem cells can cause a graft-versus-leukemia (GVL) effect, which eliminates leukemic cells. Unfortunately, there are also donor T cells in the graft that can cause a condition called ...

Portrait of great Cardiff scientist
News Wales
The portrait, painted by prize-winning artist David Cobley, emphasises the groundbreaking discovery made by Sir Martin in 1980 when he became the first scientist to identify embryonic stem cells which have applications in virtually all areas of ...


Downregulation of CD44 reduces doxorubicin resistance of CD44 + CD24 - breast ...
Dove Medical Press
Methods: In this study, we reduced CD44 expression in CD44 + CD24 - breast cancer stem cellsand investigated their sensitivity to an antitumor drug. The CD44 + CD24 - breast cancer stem cellswere isolated from breast tumors; CD44 expression was ...

Need a New Liver? Just Hit “Print”
Wall Street Daily
As Dr. Daniel Kraft of Stanford School of Medicine's Stem Cell Institute says, “Using stem cells or other techniques, it's important to allow that organ to connect to the blood supply of the patient. One of the major challenges for tissue engineering ...

Birds In Spring: The Story Of My Diagnosis And Initial Treatment
The Myeloma Beacon
In late September, it was time to mobilize my stem cells for harvesting, so I checked into Memorial (Sloan's hospital component) on a Friday evening for an infusion and an overnight stay. Of course, they needed to do a chest X-ray, and that was an oops ...

Primorigen reaches distribution agreement
Wisconsin State Journal
Primorigen's StemAdhere product helps stem cells multiply to the quantities needed for research. It will be sold to researchers along with Stemcell Technologies' cell culture products. The Canadian company sells more than 1000 products for life science ...

Courtyard closed as crews work at UTMB
Daily News - Galveston County
The Provost's Ad hoc Committee on Stem Cell Research welcomed Dr. Max S. Wicha, whose focus was “Cancer stem cells: A new frontier in cancer research.” Wicha, a professor of oncology and internal medicine, is a leading expert in cancer stem cells and ...

$50000 for childhood cancer research
KSDK
Dr. Laura Scheuttpelz will use the $50000 from Hyundai for her research involving the regulation of hematopoietic stem cells. She was presented with the check during a press conference at the hospital Tuesday morning. The young patients also dipped ...

Prototype Extracts Stem Cells Efficiently
Laboratory Equipment
Johns Hopkins Univ. graduate students have invented a system to significantly boost the number ofstem cells collected from a newborn's umbilical cord and placenta so that many more patients with leukemia, lymphoma and other blood disorders can be ...

Paul Rudat's path, and message
MPNnow.com
The operation took Rudat's own stem cells from his nasal mucosa, an area far back in the nose, and transplanted the cells into the damaged spinal cord area. The procedure left Rudat in Portugal hospitals for 15 days. While the surgery did not help ...

Veteran's leg muscle regenerated with pig bladder hormones
SmartPlanet.com (blog)
The matrix is a biological scaffold enriched with proteins and experimental growth-promoting substances that recruit stem cells and other progenitor cells to the site of the injury – stimulating tissue regeneration and rebuilding lost muscle. ...

Vatican Puts $1 Million Behind Adult Stem Cell Research
LifeNews.com
“We believe Adult Stem Cells will be the answer to so many debilitating problems impacting people all over the world, of all ages, in all walks of life. We look forward to working together with Father Trafny, Cardinal Ravasi and other Church leaders to ...


Six New England researchers named 2011 Pew Scholars
Mass High Tech
Six New England researchers made the list of recipients: Thomas G. Fazzio, of the Univeristy of Massachusetts Medical Center, for stem cells and epigenetics; Jeff Gore, of MIT, for biophysics and evolutionary systems biology; Mary Gehring, ...

Over 60 bone marrow transplants done at PGI centre
Indian Express
However, the biggest hurdle is that even between two brothers or two sisters, the chance of a full house matching is only 25 per cent. At PGI, both autologous (transplant with stem cells from the patient) as well as allogenic (transplant with stem ...
Breakthrough Skincare Line, NOVO Solutions MD, Officially Launches
Sacramento Bee
NovoSerum™ - their proprietary cell-free complex derived from purified human umbilical cord serum - stimulates skin's stem cells and significantly increases the production of collagen and skin matrix. In an independent, double blind clinical study, ...

Carmel Valley Orthopaedic surgeon who found his niche in researchwins ...
Del Mar Times
D'Lima's team is also working on ways to repair cartilage lesions before a knee replacement is needed; and how to turn stem cells into cartilage-producing cells. “Research like ours is going to become increasingly important as health care reform begins ...

A dog's day with hi-tech vets Same-day stem-cell work started out 'a good day'
Buffalo Grove Countryside
“Never in our wildest dreams did we think she'd be getting stem cells.” Nevertheless, veterinarian Mitch Robbins cautions, he must make a final examination of Sable before cells can be harvested from her stomach, undergo the stem-cell process and then ...

HIV and AIDS Research: Scientists Find HIV's 'Achilles Heel' for Drugs ...
Newser
Doctors believe Brown received stem cells from a donor who was among the 1% or so of the Caucasian population that is immune to HIV. More» (NEWSER) - AIDS patients who get treated early with antiretroviral drugs are as much as 96% less likely to pass ...

Same-Sex Marriage and NY Economy
UC Los Angeles
Time.com reports today, eight NBC-TV affiliates reported Sunday and RedOrbit reported Friday, on the enrollment of the first patients in a clinical trial that will use cells derived from human embryonicstem cells to address vision loss in people ...

Queen's birthday honours – Professor Robert Edwards
Cambridge Network
His work at the University of Cambridge has led to studies on infertility, the introduction of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, and the first studies on the therapeutic possibilities of human embryo stem cells. In December 10th 2010 Professor Robert ...


Made-in-Edmonton diabetes treatment offers hope around the world
Global Toronto
Shapiro is now working with a US team to find a safe way to use stem cells to make insulin. The next step, he says, may not be transplantation - but regeneration - using hormones to make the pancreas re-grow its own islet cells. ...
National Right to Life News Today: Your Online Pro-Life Newspaper
National Right to Life News
We cover everything from state and federal abortion legislation through elections up to and including assisted suicide, the assault on women helping centers, and embryonic stem cells. Second, because of technological improvements which have made it ...

BioLife Solutions Now The Leading Supplier of Pre-Formulated GMP ...
Genetic Engineering News
... a leading developer and manufacturer of clinical grade biopreservation media products for cells and tissues, today announced that it has become the leading supplier of pre-formulated GMP cryopreservation media for umbilical cord blood stem cells, ...

WJBC Forum - 'Tis the Season for Elections
WJBC News
Their religion, view on homosexuality, abortion, stem-cells, and other moral-related topics are promoted and/or criticized. Immigration, gun control, healthcare and educational reform are often hot-button topics that can also dominate. ...

Seeking a better way to collect stem cells from cord blood
The JHU Gazette
By Phil Sneiderman, Homewood Johns Hopkins graduate students have invented a system to significantly boost the number of stem cells collected from a newborn's umbilical cord and placenta, so that many more patients with leukemia, lymphoma and other ...

City of tomorrow
The Telegram
Fifty years ago, two Toronto researchers were the first in the world to confirm the existence of stem cells, spawning a research revolution that continues to change the face of medicine. On Wednesday, a community of scientists whose research builds on...


Dental cells to cure diseases
IBNLive.com
Apart form the milk tooth of children, wisdom tooth for adults can be a good source for stem cells. City based dental surgeon, Dr Sanjay Kaul, says, Banking dental stem cells provides opportunities for people who have missed out to bank their cord ...

Stem cells help us to see
iAfrica.com
The first clinical trials that examine the use of stem cells to treat two forms of blindness are ready to begin now that patients have been enrolled, a US company announced on Thursday. A total of 24 patients have entered two separate trials at an eye ...

Portrait of a scientist
BBC News
In 1980, Professor Sir Martin Evans became the first scientist to isolate and identify embryonic stem cells. The portrait, by David Cobley, shows Sir Martin's eureka moment as he looks at cultures in a petri dish. Sir Martin said he was "delighted" ...


Your Health: Stem cells save legs
YNN Austin
Now, researchers are studying whether adult stem cells could help patients with PAD. Two different kinds of stem cells are removed from the patient's bone marrow and processed in incubation chambers. Once the stem cells expand and mutiply into millions ...


Clogged Arteries Successfully Unclogged by Patients' Own Stem Cells
MedIndia
The first three prosthetic bypass graft surgeries using the patient's stem cells to treat peripheral vascular disease (PVD) has been performed by surgeons from the University of Louisville. PVD develops when arteries become clogged with plaque-fatty ...

Targeting Stem Cells, Reducing Fat
Ivanhoe
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Researchers have found a way to rid the body of stem cells that are responsible for driving fat expansion. The investigators discovered the first protein marker on the surface of adipose stromal cells (ASCs). ...

Going grey? Forget dyeing, reach for the stem cells
BioNews
The findings about melanocyte stem cells(MSCs) may explain why hair turns grey and could provide insight into melanocyte-related diseases, such as melanoma. Professor Mayumi Ito from New York University's Langone Medical Centre, who was involved in the ...

Scientists: We Can Make Pigs Grow Human Organs
Newser
By injecting stem cells from rats into the embryos of mice that had been genetically modified to be unable to grow their own organs, the researchers have been able to create mice with rat organs. And they believe the same process could be used to ...

Stem cell therapy used for diabetic patients
IBNLive.com
Vascular surgeons from Vijaya Hospital, Vadapalani, along with stem cell experts from Nichi-In Centre for Regenerative Medicine (NCRM), claimed to have cured leg ulcers using stem cells from the patient's own bone marrow. ...
5-hydroxymethylcytosine is associated with enhancers and gene bodies in human ...
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
5-Hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) was recently found to be abundantly present in certain cell types, including embryonic stem cells. There is growing evidence that TET proteins, which convert 5-methylcytosine (5mC) to 5hmC, play important biological roles ...

Baylor doctors get research support from Lemonade Stand grants
BCM News
Shohet and his colleagues will investigate the process that enables stem cells to shut off and turn on essential pathways involved in cancer relapse. "This information is essential for the design of entirely new, less toxic therapeutic approaches to ...

Wayzata Student Searches for a Cure
Patch.com
That's how I initially became interested in stem cells—I had a real life encounter with someone who actually needed stem cell therapy.” A fellow Wayzata classmate diagnosed with muscular dystrophy disease also motivated Chen. ...

Salamanders may have secret to human-limb regrowth
Herkimer Evening Telegram
"What we are learning is that this is about stem cells," said Ed Zalisko, professor of biology at Blackburn College in Illinois. "We need to tell these cells to be more generalist." That's because most cells have a very specific purpose. ...

Isomers Stem Genesis for Body
Truth In Aging
Although this is yet another product to feature apple stem cells (surely the ingredient of 2011), what really won me over was the peptide power that Isomers has packed in. This is, I believe, the first time that I have seen a body lotion with Syn-Tacks ...

Presidential Hopefuls: Tim Pawlenty
National Catholic Register
He supports adult stem-cell research but opposes the use of embryonic stem cells. In the first GOP presidential debate, held in South Carolina in early May, Pawlenty said he believes stem-cell research “should be adult derived” and added that “I don't ...


The bravest bride
Worcester News
The trial stem cell treatment involves harvesting her stem cells and shutting down her immune system through the use of chemotherapy. Stem cells are then reintroduced to her body so the immune system can reboot. A healthy immune system protects the ...

Free Biotechnology Workshop for Journalists
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
Join your colleagues as we cover the basics of biotechnology – complete with a hands on demonstration of DNA extraction, discuss the role of stem cells in research, provide an overview of how far we've come in the field and highlight local research ...
Tissue Engineers Regenerate Afghanistan Veteran's Leg Muscle from Pig Bladder ...
Popular Science
The matrix is a biological scaffold, enriched with proteins and growth factors, which recruits stem cells and other cell precursors to the site of the injury, according to the McGowan Institute's website. The therapy stimulates further tissue ...

Hyundai, dealers give $50000 to St. Louis Children's Hospital
Bizjournals.com
The funds will be given to Laura Scheuttpelz, a fellow at St. Louis Children's Hospital, for her research involving the regulation of hematopoietic stem cells. The grant will be officially presented to Scheuttpelz on Tuesday. ...

Richard Cashmore's fight to walk again
The Bay of Plenty Times
Dr Young has injected stem cells from umbilical cord blood and lithium into patients' damaged spinal cords. He expects the cells to migrate into the injury site and form a bridge. Lithium is used to stimulate growth. Dr Young said patients would not ...


The human mutation rate
OneNewsNow
They hope this technique will expand upon all the advantages of adult stem cells and those hoped for with embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells while avoiding both medical side effects and moral issues. Despite the cry, “Their weapon is ...

Mandira Bedi gives birth to a baby boy!
Apun Ka Choice
The name was reportedly chosen by Raj. The news of Mandira's pregnancy came out in January this year. Just earlier in June, Mandira was seen promoting Stem Cell Banking. She is learnt to have preserved the stem cells of the baby at the time of birth.

False Advertising For Cosmetics In South Korea Increases Nearly 5-fold In Q1
Bernama
The cases included cosmetics products' claims to have medicinal effects, which is banned in such ads, and adding "stem cells" to the names of products that in fact did not contain that ingredient. Officials said they referred 53 cases to law ...

THIS JUST IN: German engine maker to build headquarters in Novi
Crain's Detroit Business
Ann Arbor-based Aastrom Biosciences Inc. (Nasdaq: ASTM), a developer of therapies for severe cardiovascular diseases based on a patient's own stem cells, has filed a prospectus to issue $20 million of common stock at market rates. ...

Pluristem to licence cells to United Therapeutics-UPDATE 1
Forexyard
TEL AVIV, June 20 (Reuters) - Pluristem Therapeutics will license its PLX stem cells to United Therapeutics Corp to develop a cell-based product for the treatment of pulmonary hypertension (PH). Under the agreement, United Therapeutics will receive ...

New Technique to Induce Bone Tissues Developed in Korea
Arirang News
These proteins signal stem cells in the body to create more bone tissues. [Interview : Yeon Jae-young, Dentist] "If you use a BMP graft, you do not have to extract your own bone, so it is much more convenient for both doctors and patients. ...

To do for you
Twin Falls Times-News
Topics: Botox, fillers, fat stem cells, facial and body rejuvenation, liposuction and skin lasers. “To do for you” is a listing of health-related activities, events and education. Submit information by Thursday for publication in the following Monday's ...

Overseas Chinese talents find home with domestic companies
China Daily
Xiang, known for his long-term research on stem cells, is now a leading scientist in China's "Program 973," also known as the National Key Fundamental Research Development Program. "Returning to China to start a career is now a consensus among many ...

Western Australian couple wheeling out cancer-fighting message
Leader News
He said he was in “partial remission” after being diagnosed in 2006, receiving treatment including chemotherapy, thalidomide and having his stem cells harvested. He was in remission in 2008, but faced a setback in 2009 when he had to have an operation ...


Start-up envisions a new way to treat depression
Boston Globe
■Henri Termeer, former chief executive of Genzyme Corp. in Cambridge, has joined the board of Verastem, a start-up seeking to develop treatments against cancer stem cells. Verastem, cofounded by MIT biologists Robert Weinberg and Eric Lander, ...

BIO 2011 biotech profile: Mesoblast
Australian Life Scientist
The upshot of the deal – the largest ever in the world of stem cells – was that Mesoblast leapt to being number four in the Australian biotech and medical devices landscape, behind giants CSL, Cochlear and ResMed. The company also made it in to the ...

Cuts to higher ed are painful, but finding money is an uphill battle
Mankato Free Press
GOP Proposal: The proposal would ban certain kinds of stem cell research, including somatic cell nuclear transfer — a process in which a patient's cell is implanted into an unfertilized egg in order to grow embryonic stem cells. ...

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