Stem Cell News - June 22, 2011

New method invented to collect stem cells after birth Baltimore Sun (blog) Stem cells from newborns' umbilical cords and placenta are normally tossed, but some Johns Hopkins students have come up with a new system that could significantly increase collections. The stem cells could then be used to boost the immune systems of ... See all stories on this topic » Baltimore Sun (blog)

Stem cell therapy to help all NBers Times and Transcript While the Saint John hospital still doesn't have the machines to preserve the stem cells or check their viability, every other part of the therapy can be done there as part of the pilot project - including the transplant. Stem cell therapy is a form of ... See all stories on this topic »

Treating Acute Radiation Sickness with Mesenchymal Stromal Stem Cells Drug Discovery & Development 15 While ARS animal trials are still ongoing, early results have demonstrated that placental-derived MSCs enhance the engraftment of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) contained in cord blood when the MSCs and cord blood are administered concurrently. ... See all stories on this topic »

Notch Signaling Pathway - Central Regulatory Switch of Airway Stem Cells MedIndia Researchers have identified the notch signaling pathway as the master regulatory switch that controls the differentiation of airway basal stem cells. The findings could help provide new therapies for either blocked or thinned airways. ... See all stories on this topic »

Stem cell model offers clues to cause of inherited ALS EurekAlert (press release) An international team of scientists led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have used induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) derived from patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) to reveal for the first ... See all stories on this topic »

The City of Stem Cells The Mark by The Mark Stem cell research is booming in Toronto, and scientists are excited about what they might soon be able to achieve. The McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine in Toronto is on the cutting edge of stem cell research. ... See all stories on this topic »

Why low birth weight often leads to obesity later in life DailyIndia.com Researchers at Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center using fetal neural stem cells from animal models found that altering the levels of two common hormones, insulin and leptin, in the uterus changes the cellular ... See all stories on this topic »

Identification of a Truncated Form of Methionine Sulfoxide Reductase A ... 7thSpace Interactive (press release) Methods: In the present study, we have isolated a truncated form of the MsrA transcript from cultured mouse embryonic stem cells and performed eGFP fusion protein expression, confocal microscopy and real time RT-PCR studies. ... See all stories on this topic »

Dental Stem Cells Used to Regrow Teeth : Stem Cells Dentistry - Dental and ... Your-Story.org (press release) This service enables families to collect and preserve the stem cells from their children's teeth for future use. Dr. Sharpe has earned an international reputation for his research into using stem cells to grow new teeth. He has demonstrated in animal ... See all stories on this topic »

Menstrual blood: Panacea for many ills Deccan Chronicle By TS Preetha The orthodox may have a horror of menstrual blood, but it has been found to carrystem cells which can be collected, stored and used for treating many a disease. Latest research shows that stem cells collected from the menstrual blood, ... See all stories on this topic »

Emerging Health Technologies: Interventional anti-aging Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies Using an individual's own stem cells to regenerate organs for transplantation and as a cell source for cellular therapies could be a powerful near-term solution to disease. Several proposed interventions were pharmaceutical, myostatin inhibition, ... See all stories on this topic »

10th INTERNATIONAL BIO FORUM & BIO EXPO JAPAN Exhibitor Profiles SYS-CON Media (press release) AntiCancer, established in San Diego 1984, is developing the real-time in vivo imaging technology using GFP/RFP, liposome-based topical hair follicle-targeted dermatological drugs; multi-potent stem cells for regenerative medicine derived from the hair ... See all stories on this topic »

Stem Cell Breakthrough: Pigs could grow human organs International Business Times AU REUTERS/Hamid Sayedi (AFGHANISTAN HEALTH SOCIETY ANIMALS IMAGES OF THE DAY) The technique included injecting stem cells from rats into the embryos or blastocysts of mice that could not grow their own organs. Results have shown that the mice were indeed ... See all stories on this topic » International Business Times AU

Stem Cell Therapeutics Corp. Announces the Issuance of United States Patent ... MarketWatch (press release) This patent builds upon the strong basic scientific evidence that prolactin possesses the ability to stimulate endogenous stem cells to increase oligodendrocytes precursor cells in animals with central nervous system injuries and importantly increase ... See all stories on this topic »

ImmunoCellular Therapeutics to Present at 2nd World Cancer Vaccines Summit MarketWatch (press release) The presentation will describe ICT-107's targeting of multiple antigens present on cancer stem cellsand daughter cells, the significant improvements observed in progression free and overall survival data following the phase I trial of ICT-107 in newly ... See all stories on this topic »

Guess What's Coming to Dinner TechNewsWorld By culturing muscle stem cells in the lab using a special, animal-free nutrient medium to promote growth, scientists have been able to force those cells to differentiate into "functional, authentic skeletal muscle fibers," Mironov explained. ... See all stories on this topic »

It's like Amazon.com, but for scientists Toronto Star “The idea is that scientists can use these knockout stem cells – each one missing a gene that scientists believe may be responsible for a disease -- to create live mice to study the disease, said Hicks who is director of Regenerative Medicine at the ... See all stories on this topic »

New System To Collect Stem Cells MedIndia by Gopalan T on June 22, 2011 at 7:15 AM A new system devised by Johns Hopkins graduate students could significantly boost the number of stem cells collected from a newborn's umbilical cord and placenta. That could prove a boon to those suffering from... See all stories on this topic » MedIndia

MSU launches new reproductive research initiative MSU News The four main points of the initiative are: Stem cell biology/regenerative medicine, focused on reprogramming adult somatic cells to produce induced pluripotent stem cells, which share characteristics of cells in an early embryo. ... See all stories on this topic » MSU News

Putting the moisture back into winter skin Sydney Morning Herald (blog) Another of Cocciolone's brands, the high-end emerginC, has Scientific Organics Phytocell Cream ($110) which, she says, is an intensive age-fighting and hydrating cream with concentrated grape stem cells designed to help revitalise, protect, ... See all stories on this topic » Sydney Morning Herald (blog)

Magnetic Enrichment of TRA-1-60+ Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Facilitates ... SelectScience.net (press release) In this application note from Miltenyi, neural differentiation towards either neural crest (NC) or neuralstem cells (NSC) is optimised. A magnetic cell separation protocol to standardise quality and number of true pluripotent stem cells before ... See all stories on this topic »

New findings may aid sufferers of ALS oralhealthjournal.com (blog) By Ken Serota on June 22, 2011 4:56 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks Pluripotent stem cellsderived from patients with ALS sheds light on how reduced levels of a specific protein may play a key role in causing inherited ALS. ... See all stories on this topic »

10 Spine Surgeons Conducting Outstanding Research Becker's Orthopedic & Spine (press release) Dr. Anderson received the grant in 2008 for his collaborative project titled "Intervertebral Disc Regeneration From Co-Cultures Disc and Stem Cells in Biomimetic Engineered Extracellular Matrix Stimulation by Mechanically Active Bioreactor. ... See all stories on this topic »

Sheikh Muszaphar to be a father Malaysia Star Stem cells can treat more than 70 types of diseases,” he added. Lau Kin Wai, CellSafe founder and executive director, said the company had always been on the lookout for a Malaysian who could become CellSafe's spokesperson. ... See all stories on this topic »

Philanthropy Review fails to acknowledge role of fundraising, says IoF Civil Society Media For Anthony Nolan, people willing to donate blood stem cells are imperative to the successful achievement of our goal to find a matching donor for every blood cancer patient who need a stem cell transplant.” Elsewhere, Penny Gowers, CEO of Everyclick, ... See all stories on this topic »

BioCision Launches New Tools for Cell Cryopreservation Business Wire (press release) It is ideal for all cells including cell lines, stem cells, yeast, blood and other primary cells. The durable, insulated design of the CoolCell FTS30 ensures easy and safe portability of frozen cells, insertion and removal of 30 vials at once, ... See all stories on this topic »

Future clinical trials may be targeted on biomarkers: Dr Umapathi pharmabiz.com In cell biology, it is a molecule that allows for the detection and isolation of a particular cell type (for example, the protein Oct-4 is used as a biomarker to identify embryonic stem cells). In genetics, a biomarker (identified as genetic marker) is ... See all stories on this topic »

Three senior Hebrew University faculty members receive Kaye Awards for innovations EurekAlert (press release) ... for his team's 19-year-long research that has led to a breakthrough in the field of stem cell-based tissue engineering, which focuses on the regeneration of skeletal tissue by converting adult stem cells into skeletal tissue. ... See all stories on this topic »

Lots of coffee may ward off Alzheimer's, USF finds Sarasota Herald-Tribune The substance "recruits stem cells from your bone marrow to go into the blood and the brain to destroy aggregated beta amyloid," Arendash said. It also produces brain connections and fosters the birth of brain cells. "Caffeinated coffee does all three ... See all stories on this topic »

Biotech startups use contests as springboards SignOnSanDiego.com NeuroMap uses skin cells taken from a patient to create induced pluripotent stem cells that are then turned into neurons. Various antidepressant drugs are then tested on the neurons to see if they respond favorably. The company plans to use samples ... See all stories on this topic »

Biotech firms want drug approval hastened Boston Globe He said the US patent was key to commercializing his technology, a device that can modify the surface of stem cells to guide them through the bloodstream to treat injuries. Others at yesterday's meeting also pointed to regulatory uncertainty as a ... See all stories on this topic » Boston Globe

After 40 Years (in the Wilderness), Where is Our Promised Land? Psychiatric Times (blog) For instance, there were presentations on “Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine: Progress and Prospects” and “From Bench to Clinic: Pediatric Tissue Engineered Grafts.” By comparison, however, psychiatric and mental health care advances seemed to be ... See all stories on this topic »

V-Robic shaking up the vibration market TVNZ Based on the research, Cherry launched V-Robic to create a machine that mimics the body's own signals in the brain that stimulate and shift stem cells, which in turn increase bone density and fitness. The device stimulates the whole body 32 times in ... See all stories on this topic »

Earthworm Poop Has Big Anti-Aging Benefits For Skin PR Web (press release) Organic farmers already know earthworm castings make plants grow larger and faster by promoting healthy stem cells and extending the life cycle with an arsenal of anti-aging enzymes. According to Wayne Perry, Head of Development for GSC Products,... See all stories on this topic » PR Web (press release)

Graduating seniors receive awards for theses, research and arts projects Stanford University News Nancy Wang, biology; "Differential expression of chemokine receptors and adhesion molecules on neural stem cells (NSCs) influences NSC functional migration and therapeutic potential," Raphael Guzman, neurosurgery. Mike Wei, biology; "Characterizing a ... See all stories on this topic »

Dover resident takes cancer fight into high gear at Fenway Park Wicked Local Pratt followed the Nordic Regimen, consisting of seven rounds of high-dose chemotherapy and an autologous bone marrow transplant, a system in which stem cells are taken from the patient before high doses of chemotherapy and are replanted after ... See all stories on this topic »

Hybridan Small Cap Wrap: Green Compliance exhibits growth, a new strategy for ... Stockopedia Angel Biotech (LON:ABH) (ABH 0.3p/£8.19m)* is producing the stem cells used in ReNeuron's trials at its Edinburgh facility and has been ReNeuron's manufacturing partner for over three years and enjoys a strengthening relationship. ... See all stories on this topic »