University of Northern Iowa
Posted in Stem Cells on Jan 27th, 2008
A Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine researcher has launched the first U.S. trial in which a purified form of subjects’ own adult stem cells was transplanted into their leg muscles with severely blocked arteries to try to grow new small blood vessels and restore circulation in their legs.
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Posted in Stem Cells on Jan 20th, 2008
A lab at the University of Minnesota has done something cool: they’ve grown a functioning heart from stem cells. The problem with building complex organs in a lab is that their normal construction required an elaborate context in the developing embryo, something that is impossible to replicate, short of just growing the whole embryo. The [...]
Posted in Stem Cells on Dec 29th, 2007
The scientific finding of the year has to be the reprogramming of adult somatic cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (IPS cells). In reality the ground breaking work was published in 2006, however at that time it was not yet clear whether IPS cells were the real thing.
The Daily Transcript: IPS Cells - Scientific Finding [...]
Posted in Stem Cells on Jun 21st, 2007
The move effectively pushed the debate surrounding the research into the 2008 presidential campaign.
The New York Times
Posted in Stem Cells on Jun 21st, 2007
By pairing the veto with a new scientific initiative, the White House clearly hopes to blunt the inevitable criticism that President Bush will face for vetoing the embryonic stem cell measure.
The New York Times
Posted in Stem Cells on Jun 21st, 2007
Leading geneticist asks scientists to create stem cells with animal eggs.
LiveScience.com
Posted in Stem Cells on Jun 21st, 2007
Parkinson’s researchers inject human stem cells into primates for the first time, with promising results.
BBC News
Posted in Stem Cells on Jun 21st, 2007
Scientists this week reported major advances toward a central goal of stem cell research: directly reprogramming fetal mouse cells so that they are indistinguishable from embryonic stem cells.
Science
Posted in Stem Cells on Jun 21st, 2007
In this week’s issue of Nature, researchers show that if nuclear DNA is removed from the dividing mouse zygote at just the right moment, it will successfully reprogram an introduced nucleus from a somatic cell.
Science
Posted in Stem Cells on Jun 21st, 2007
Democratic leaders conceded they were short of the votes needed to override a veto threatened by President Bush.
The New York Times