Boost for Stem-Cell Agency
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A court rejects claims that California's burgeoning stem-cell agency is plagued by conflicts of interest. Once all legal hurdles are cleared, the agency can seek Wall Street funding. By the Associated Press.
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Cell transplants for type 1 diabetes, which hold hope of a cure, to be made available at specialist centres.
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Scientists have moved closer to being able to use human stem cells to manufacture blood.
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Stem cells have been used to save mice embryos from a lethal heart defect.
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Passage of the $3 billion stem cell research initiative, Proposition 71, could help California repeat one of the most celebrated chapters in its business history if one of its most eminent supporters is right.
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Researchers have discovered a small population of stem cells in pancreatic cancer that appear to drive tumor growth, opening the door for a potential new approach for treating this particularly deadly disease.
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A centre in Edinburgh is to develop human stem cell lines to be sold for woldwide research.
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Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have found a fundamental mechanism used by embryonic stem cells to assure that genetically damaged stem cells do not divide and pass along the damage to daughter stem cells.
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Research to develop new and improved treatments for cancer was given a further boost with the announcement of $1.9 million ( 1.1 million) a year to fund fifteen international fellowships.
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A stem cell cure for diabetes is a step closer, Canadian researchers are predicting.
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UK scientists are attempting to restore vision in people with a leading cause of blindness using stem cells.
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UK researchers say the discovery of a new type of "missing link" stem cell in rodents could boost research.
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Scientists in Massachusetts said today they had created several colonies of human embryonic stem cells without harming the embryos from which they were derived, the latest in a series of recent advances that could speed development of stem cell-based treatments for a variety of diseases.
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Pioneering research is to test if stem cells can repair heart muscle damaged by a heart attack.
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Scientists are preparing for a large  clinical trial in 2008 which aims to use stem cells to help 400  patients with spinal cord injuries in Hong Kong, mainland China  and Taiwan grow new cells and nerve fibers.
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Gov. Jim Doyle announced plans Wednesday to invest nearly &#36;750 million to support human embryonic stem cell research and other medical experiments.
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Science & environment: Hopes boosted by experiments showing that human embryonic stem cells could be turned into a variety of brain cells