Sunday, June 19, 2011

Stem Cell News- Update: June 19, 2011

Pigs could grow human organs in stem cell breakthrough
Telegraph.co.uk
Human organs could be grown inside pigs for use in transplant operations following research usingstem cells. By Richard Gray, Science Correspondent Scientists have found they can create chimeric animals that have organs belonging to another species by ...

These cures are no longer science fiction
South Asia Mail
Increase text size Do stem cells hold the cure for cancers, heart disease, diabetes and the other diseases that kill millions each year? Absolutely. My wife and I donated more than $21-million in that belief. While stem cells were discovered 50 years ...

New Parkinson's 'brain bank' samples grown from stem cells
PHG Foundation
Skin cells from patients will be used to create a 'brain bank' of specialised brain cells for medical research, allowing study of the progressive deterioration of the diseased nerve cells and testing of potential treatments (see previous news). ...

Franklin: The pug who tugs at hearts
Lexington Herald Leader
The next step is an experimental treatment that uses stem cells from Franklin's body. It will cost around $1800. Veterinarian Cathy White of Finchville Animal Hospital in Shelby County has had success on other animals at her clinic with the technique. ...

The Fighter
Charleston Post Courier
That in just a few days she's expected to spend hours hooked up to machines harvesting healthystem cells, and that in coming weeks she'll grow weary under the poisonous pressure of chemotherapy. Jamie Drolet, Harper's father and the retail advertising ...

Midwest League all-stars take divergent paths to QC
Quad City Times
He took a long list of medications in the week leading up to a 3-hour operation where blood was taken from one arm, stem cells were filtered and the blood was returned to his other arm. Szczur received twice-daily injections from one arm to the other ...

First Prosthetic Bypass Graft With Patient's Stem Cells at Point-of-Care ...
MedIndia
by Kathy Jones on June 19, 2011 at 11:28 AM A University of Louisville surgeon has reported that the first three patients to undergo an investigational surgical procedure for peripheral vascular disease that involves the patient's own stem cells ...


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Your blood, tissue can be life-savers
San Antonio Express
The organization Be the Match, which invited participants at the event to join its registry, urged the community to donate not only blood, but bone marrow and stem cells. Jon Hudson, a Be the Match recruiter, said only four in 10 people needing ...

Scientists discover cause of gray hair
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
"Mouse and the human hairs are very similar in the way that they are structured and the way they contain melanocyte stem cells," said Piul Rabbani, the graduate student leading the study. "We found that the wnt signaling pathway is activated the same ...

Battle of the Bulge may be Won Via Adult Stem Cells
MedIndia
by Kathy Jones on June 19, 2011 at 12:49 PM A new approach to target fat-producingstem cells that produce the type of fat ringing the waists has been developed by a team of scientists. The researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center ...


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Boy gives dad gift of life
Slough and Windsor Observer
Tests showed Luke was a 50% match, so in October he went into hospital for five days of injections which would stimulate his bone marrow to replicate stem cells. He then went to King's College Hospital in November where the cells were taken from his ...

6 Biotech Stocks With Catalysts for Near Term Upside
Seeking Alpha
The company currently makes a majority of its revenues on genotyping, protein analysis, cell culture, primary and stem cells, sample preparation and transfection but as the company continues to develop through acquisitions as well as reap gains from ...

Sund: Perry for president -- no!
Times Record News
Governor Perry stepped on my last nerve when he spoke in Los Angeles against the use of embryonic stem cells for medical research. This research has the potential to save lives and to cure the crippled. Recent research has produced amazing results and ...

Does Islam Stand Against Science?
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
(The traditional Muslim belief is that the spirit does not enter the body until 40 days after conception, which means many human embryonic stem cells can be harvested for research.) "Being a Muslim, living in a Muslim world, Islam plays a big role in ...


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