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U.S. approves first “ethical” human stem cell lines
23 hours ago ago from Last Day Watchers
U.S. approves first human stem cell lines Reuters 2009-12-04 The U.S. government approved the first 13 batches of human embryonic stem cells on Wednesday, enabling researchers using them to get millions of dollars in federal funding as promised by President Barack Obama in March. Science | Health The batches, known as lines, were made by two researchers at Harvard University and Rockefeller University ...
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Advances towards learning and applying the properties of stem cells have gathered much popularity in the recent times. All stem cells, regardless of their source of origin, have three general properties linked with them. These three properties of stem cells include their ability to divide and renew themselves for long periods ; them being unspecialized; and their ability to give rise to specialized cell types. These capabilities also ...
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University of Michigan researchers have received approval to begin accepting donated embryos that will be used to derive the university's first human embryonic stem cell lines. The cell lines will be used to study the causes and progression of inherited diseases, to test potential treatments and to seek cures. The announcement was made Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 8, 2009, by Dr. Eva Feldman , director of U-M's A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research ...
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My critique is on Mollie Hammer’s editorial A person, or not a person: that is the question . I agree with Mollie that stem cell research is important. Not only is it important, but it should have the full support of the government at all times, not jumping back and forth every time we get a new President. The possibilities of what stem cell research could provide to the advancement of treatments and cures are limitless. I think it is more ...
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There are several protocols for organ transplants to help cure diabetes currently under research. Type-1 diabetes is caused by the destruction of Beta islet cells in the pancreas which secretes insulin. People with Type-1 diabetes need to be on insulin treatment currently for the rest of their lives to control their disease. Every year, several hundreds of Type-1 diabetics have whole organ pancreas transplants. Averages of about 83% of ...
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First Ever Clinical Study Shows Dental Stem Cells Regrow Bone
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In a statement today, StemSave (TM), Inc., the market leader in the field of stem cell recovery and cryo-preservation lauds research published in the November issue of the European Cells and Materials Journal citing the reconstruction of the human mandible bone with autologous dental pulp stem cells. StemSave commends Italian researchers from the 2 nd University of Naples for their groundbreaking work. This marks the first time dental stem ...
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TUESDAY, Dec. 8 (HealthDay News) -- New research has found that a certain kind of stem cell from human umbilical cords helped restore transparency to the cloudy corneas of laboratory mice, raising the prospect that they could do the same for people. Currently, a limited supply of donated human corneas is available to help people with severe corneal and eye diseases. The new research examined human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells. ...
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