ScienceDaily (Mar. 30, 2010) — Scientists seeking new ways to fight maladies ranging from arthritis and osteoporosis to broken bones that won’t heal have cleared a formidable hurdle, pinpointing and controlling a key molecular player to keep stem cells in a sort of extended infancy. It’s a step that makes treatment with the cells in the [...]

ScienceDaily (Mar. 31, 2010) — A novel stem cell therapy that arms the immune system with an intrinsic defence against HIV could be a powerful strategy to tackle the disease. Professor Ben Berkhout speaking at the Society for General Microbiology’s spring meeting in Edinburgh explains how this new approach could dramatically improve the quality of life [...]

April 13, 2010 Procedure that worked on Montreal man a possible alternative to transplants   Injecting stem cells into a Montreal man’s heart seems to have helped heal the organ, say researchers investigating the experimental procedure. The case is part of the first study in Canada to evaluate the safety and feasibility of injecting different [...]

ScienceDaily (Apr. 12, 2010) — Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have solved the decade-old mystery of why human embryonic stem cells are so difficult to culture in the laboratory, providing scientists with useful new techniques and moving the field closer to the day when stem cells can be used for therapeutic purposes. The research is [...]

In a report on a new paper called Cell Stem Cell from from Children’s Hospital Boston:   “a new way to reprogram ordinary human cells into stem cells, using RNAs, appears safer and much more efficient than current methods – and can much more readily transform stem cells into specialized cells to treat disease.” Modified mRNAs [...]

The use of stem cells for research and their possible application in the treatment of disease are hotly debated topics. In a special issue of Translational Research published this month an international group of medical experts presents an in-depth and balanced view of the rapidly evolving field of stem cell research and considers the potential of harnessing [...]

Scientists at the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) have recently generated significant single cell expression data crucial for a detailed molecular understanding of mammalian development from fertilization to embryo implantation, a process known as the preimplantation period. The knowledge gained has a direct impact on clinical applications in the areas of regenerative medicine and assisted [...]

100-fold increase in efficiency in reprogramming human cells to induced stem cells Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute have today (07/10/2011) announced a new technique to reprogramme human cells, such as skin cells, into stem cells. Their process increases the efficiency of cell reprogramming by one hundred-fold and generates cells of a higher quality [...]

New York, NY – A new study by researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center has shown that Wnt signalling, already known to control many biological processes, between hair follicles and melanocyte stem cells can dictate hair pigmentation. The study was published in the June 11, 2011 issue of the journal Cell. The research was led [...]

A PILL that enables damaged hearts to repair themselves could be a reality within ten years, thanks to a British stem-cell breakthrough. Scientists have discovered that a natural embryo molecule can awaken dormant repair cells in adult hearts. It could form the basis of a drug that helps destroyed heart muscle to be rebuilt after [...]

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President Obama is planning to sign an executive order Monday to overturn Bush-era policy that limited federal tax dollars for embryonic stem cell research, according to administration officials familiar with the deliberations. Obama’s move will be hailed by advocates for those suffering from a host of afflictions, ranging from diabetes to Parkinson’s disease, who believe [...]

Advocates of stem-cell research are counting the days until the swearing-in of President-elect Barack Obama. Although President George Bush has strictly limited stem-cell research from cell lines derived from human embryos, Obama has long favored such research and is likely to put a quick end to the federal ban that limits funding of research. In [...]

McCain, Clinton, Obama all oppose Bush’s limits on funding for human embryonic stem cells.Subscribe to Companies NEW YORK — Whoever wins the White House, stem cell biotechs stand to reap the benefit from an incoming leader who is friendlier to stem cell researchers than President Bush, and that could lift stocks for the entire sector, [...]

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It seems like every time we turn on the TV or flip open a magazine people are talking about … you got it … stem cells! So what’s the big deal about stem cells and why are people so up in arms about it? Well, there are actually two big deals about stem cells: Stem [...]