Stem cells developed into red blood cells
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French scientists found a way to coax stem cells into becoming large quantities of red blood cells, according to the first description of the technique in the January journal Nature Biotechnology.
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[Health India]: London, NOv 25 : A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine has confirmed that stem cells derived from the umbilical cords of newborn babies are a viable and effective transplant source for thousands of leukemia patients
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Scientists develop a method of routinely growing stem cells in conditions similar to the human body.
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While fatal in adults, organ transplants from donors with different blood types work in children under 2. The trick? Taking advantage of children's underdeveloped immune systems. By the Associated Press.
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Transplanting stem cells from a healthy woman to her sister with severe rheumatoid arthritis apparently cured the disease, researchers report in the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism.
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine have identified the growth factors essential to allow spermatogonial stem cells -- the continually self-renewing cells that produce sperm -- to exist in culture indefinitely.
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A new study from Columbia University Medical Center finds that stomach (gastric) cancer originates from bone marrow derived stem cells (BMDC), rather than from stomach stem cells, as previously thought.
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NEW YORK -- Scientists say they have created a stem cell line from a human embryo that had stopped developing naturally, and so was considered dead. Using such embryos might ease ethical concerns about creating such cells, they suggested.
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Monkey stem cells can repair the brain damage caused by Parkinson's disease, researchers have shown.
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Scientists working at a British laboratory have achieved one of the most controversial breakthroughs ever made in the field of stem cell science by taking cells from dead embryos and turning them into living tissue.
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TORONTO -- Researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children (Sick Kids) and the University of Toronto (U of T) have confirmed that childhood and adult brain tumours originate from cancer stem cells and that these stem cells fuel and maintain tumour growth.
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Stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood can help reduce stroke damage, claims a study by scientists at the Medical College of Georgia and the University of South Florida.
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New methods to reprogram adult cells could create novel models of disease.
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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
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MUNICH -- Umbilical cord blood helped children with acute leukemia as well as the bone marrow transplants that doctors now prefer, a study indicates.
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Scientists studying mice said they have found what may be a master cardiac stem cell -- able to change into the three major cell types in a mammal's heart -- in a finding that could help guide heart repair in people.
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The first human stem cell line with the mutation for cystic fibrosis (CF) has been developed by UK researchers.