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Regulations, which are arbitrary, actually make it virtually impossible to research these drugs ... The effect these laws have had on research is greater than the effects that [George] Bush stopping stem cell research has had because it's been going on since the 1960s.
The implication was that these miracles would happen if voters approved a $3-billion bond issue for stem cell research.
This requirement for both receptors explains why mice engineered to have only LRP6 are resistant to Wnt-mediated tumors ... We think that the Wnt ligand normally responsible for maintaining mammary stem cells falls into the group of ligands that is dependent on both LRPs.More quotes »
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Improved Stem Cell Line May Avoid Cancer Risk: Study
you have to show data that you can consistently produce the same product." Results of the study are published in the April 6 issue of the journal Cell/Stem Cell . More information Learn more about stem cells from the U.S. National Institutes of Health . Read more »
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Stem Cell Finding Could Expand Women's Lifetime Supply of Eggs
ovarian tissue. They then transplanted the human tissue into mice. The green fluorescence allowed researchers to see that the stem cells generated new egg cells. Tilly said the process makes evolutionary sense. "If you look at this from an evolutionary perspective, Read more »
Around the web
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Who's really putting up a smokescreen on Proposition 29?
that Lansing and Vuori would see virtues in Proposition 29. Lansing is a member of the board overseeing the California stem cell program, which was created by a 2004 ballot initiative very similar, especially in its flaws, to Proposition 29. She’s also co-founder 6/1/12 from Los Angeles Times Read more »
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Stem cell resting state regulation revealed
a sense G0S2 sequesters the nucleolin outside the nucleus of the cell extending quiescence," Lacorazza said. Hematopoietic stem cells and G0S2 are implicated in many diseases such as certain forms of leukemia and inflammatory disorders; however there is no 6/1/12 from Baylor College of Medicine Read more »
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Forest Laboratories inks $25 million deal with Nabriva
was printed from St. Louis Business Journal The University of Central Florida has patented a new source of stem cell generation. Forest Laboratories, parent company of Forest Pharmaceuticals in St. Louis, has agreed to pay $25 million to Nabriva Therapeutics 6/1/12 from St. Louis Business Journal Read more »
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Adult stem cells help man recover from flesh-eating bacteria
in the adult stem cell field: "The biggest disappointment from the summit is that stem cells automatically equals embryonic stem cells. This makes it more difficult for the rest of the industry. Stem cell has become a word like Kleenex, a brand name for everything. 6/1/12 from Creative Minority Report Read more »
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'Hope' for the paralysed?
blocked, the patient is paralysed. "Normally there is no way of repairing a severed spinal cord. But the team at UCL took nasal stem cells, and implanted them into the area of damage. These formed a bridge, along which the nerve fibres re-grew and re-connected." 6/1/12 from BBC News Read more »
