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The Fifth International Conference on Cell Therapy for Cardiovascular Disease (IC3D) will include a new session on stem cells for non-cardiac organ injury. The session will include new data on stem cells for islet disease and diabetes, bone marrow cells for stroke patients, and treating Parkinson’s disease with bone marrow cells.
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Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have developed
a versatile mouse model of glioblastoma - the most common and deadly
brain cancer in humans - that closely resembles the development and
progression of human brain tumors that arise naturally.
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MIT engineers have developed a new, highly efficient way to pair up cells so they can be fused together into a hybrid cell.
The new technique should make it much easier for scientists to study what happens when two cells are combined. For example, fusing an adult cell and an embryonic stem cell allows researchers to [...]
Cytori (NASDAQ: CYTX) announced today that U.S. patent # 7,470,537 (the ‘537 patent) has been issued to the University of California, which covers a population of stem cells, progenitor cells and other replicating cells, which can be obtained from human adipose tissue. The composition of matter patent is licensed to Cytori through its agreement with [...]
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is pleased to inform you of the recent publication in Cell of a NIDA-funded study titled “Capture of Authentic Embryonic Stem Cells from Rat Blastocysts” that focuses on the generation of a competent embryonic stem (ES) cell line in the rat system.
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