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W.M. Keck Foundation Awards $1 Million to Hutchinson Center Scholar to Study How Cells Go Awry
SEATTLE, Aug. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Anyone touched by the ravages of cancer knows the rapidly growing, opportunistic cells don't play fair. But in order to expose exactly how cancer cells cheat their host, scientists must first study the rules governing the orderly cooperation of normal cell...MADISON, Wis., July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Cellular Dynamics International (CDI) today announced that it has exclusively in-licensed a US-issued patent portfolio on optimizing the stem cell differentiation selection process and on using heart cells (cardiomyocytes) in drug testing...
RARITAN, N.J., July 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Measuring the change in circulating tumor cell (CTC) count can accurately predict the prognosis and survival in patients with metastatic breast cancer (MBC), according to a newly published report in the July 10 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncol...
PLYMOUTH, Mass., July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Harvest Technologies Corp. ( www.harvesttech.com ) announced today that the company sponsored 60-patient clinical trial conducted at Sri Ramachandra Medical Center in Chennai, India using the company's BMAC System to treat patients with non-reconstructable...
Cellular Dynamics International Reprograms Blood Cells into Stem Cells
MADISON, Wis., July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers at Cellular Dynamics International (CDI) report the ability to generate pluripotent stem cells, which have the ability to generate all tissue types in the body, from very small volumes of ordinary human blood samples. This significant bre...Scientists identify gene vital to early embryonic cells forming a normal heart and skull
New research from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center highlights the critical role a certain gene and its protein play during early embryonic development on formation of a normal heart and skull. In a study posted online June 15 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...BOTHELL, WA, and VANCOUVER, May 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - OncoGenex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: OGXI ) today announced preliminary results of a Phase 1 trial presented during an oral presentation at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting. Preliminary results as of A...
SAN DIEGO, May 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Dr. Feng Lin, Director of Research at Bio-Matrix Scientific Group Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BMSN) and Entest BioMedical Inc., today stated that he believes that an effective new therapy for "traumatic brain injury" (TBI) using autologous "adipose-derived...
FREMONT, Calif., May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Quark Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a development-stage pharmaceutical company discovering and developing novel RNA interference (RNAi)-based therapeutics, today announced that Elena Feinstein, M.D., Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, presented a study titled, "PF-04...
SAN DIEGO, May 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bio-Matrix Scientific Group Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BMSN)( http://www.BMSN.us ) and Entest BioMedical Inc., its wholly owned subsidiary, announced today they have jointly submitted a Project Summary Report to the U.S. Army Medical Research and Mater...
Technology also has potential to fight cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, as well as enhance the effectiveness of vaccines VIENNA, Va., April 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CEL-SCI Corporation (NYSE Amex: CVM ) announced today the presentation of data at the 11th annual National Foundation of Infe...
DENVER , April 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Micromet, Inc. (Nasdaq: MITI ), a biopharmaceutical company developing novel, proprietary antibodies for the treatment of cancer, inflammation and autoimmune diseases, yesterday presented data at the annual meeting of the American Association for Canc...
Amniotic Fluid May Provide New Source of Stem Cells for Future Therapies
WASHINGTON, March 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For the first time, scientists have shown that amniotic fluid (the protective liquid surrounding an embryo) may be a potential new source of stem cells for therapeutic applications. The study was prepublished online on February 12, 2009, in Blood , ...A Complimentary Webinar MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- - TOPIC: The state of the microRNA market and the molecule's current and potential impact on drug discovery, molecular diagnostics, and personalized therapeutics. ...
Assembling cells into artificial 3-D microtissues, including a tiny gland
Berkeley -- As synthetic biologists cram more and more genes into microbes to make genetically engineered organisms produce ever more complex drugs and chemicals, two University of California chemists have gone a step further. They have assembled different types of genetically engineered cells ...ST. LOUIS, March 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sigma-Aldrich (Nasdaq: SIAL ) today announced the global release of the MISSION(R) LentiPlex(TM) Pooled Human and Murine shRNA Libraries ( http://www.sigma-aldrich.com/lentiplex ). Using the shRNA collections of The RNAi Consortium (TRC), the ...
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cord Blood America, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: CBAI), the umbilical cord blood stem cell preservation company ( http://www.cordblood-america.com ) focused on bringing the life saving potential of stem cells to families nationwide and internati...
U of T chemistry discovery brings organic solar cells a step closer
Inexpensive solar cells, vastly improved medical imaging techniques and lighter and more flexible television screens are among the potential applications envisioned for organic electronics. Recent experiments conducted by Greg Scholes and Elisabetta Collini of University of Toronto's Departme...Technique for Creating Authentic Rat Embryonic Stem Cells Published in Cell
CAMBRIDGE, England, December 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- - Technology Licensed Exclusively by Stem Cell Sciences - ("Stem Cell Sciences", "SCS", "the Company") Stem Cell Sciences plc (AIM:STEM, ASX:STC) is pleased to announce that pioneering research describing a techniqu...USC researchers derive first embryonic stem cells from rats
Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) have, for the first time in history, derived authentic embryonic stem (ES) cells from rats. This breakthrough finding will enable scientists to create far more effective animal models for the study of a range of human diseases. The res...Enhancing solar cells with nanoparticles
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 - Deriving plentiful electricity from sunlight at a modest cost is a challenge with immense implications for energy, technology, and climate policy. A paper in a special energy issue of Optics Express , the Optical Society's (OSA) open-access journal, describes a relatively ne...FRANKFURT, Germany, November 25 /PRNewswire/ -- t2cure, a biopharmaceutical company developing regenerative medicine therapeutics from a patient's own stem cells, today announced that it has acquired a family of patents and patent applications from Innovectis, the technology transfer arm of Frankf...
Visualizing asthma-causing immune cells at work
Immune cells known as eosinophils have a central role in causing asthma. Now, a team of researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, has developed approaches to noninvasively visualize in real-time eosinophil responses in the lungs and airways of mice with a disease that mimics asthma (e...Preservation with BioLife's Proprietary, Next Generation, Biopreservation Media Resulted in Increased Yield and Quality of Insulin-Producing Islet Cells BOTHELL, Wash., Oct. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BioLife Solutions Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BLFS), a leadi...
Using living cells as nanotechnology factories
In the tiny realm of nanotechnology, scientists have used a wide variety of materials to build atomic scale structures. But just as in the construction business, nanotechnology researchers can often be limited by the amount of raw materials. Now, Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University res...MaxCyte and Medinet to Present at the 10th International Symposium on Dendritic Cells in Kobe, Japan
"Tumor lysate electroloaded mature human DC exhibit enhanced antigen-specific potency compared to lysate co-incubation in clinical manufacturing scale" GAITHERSBURG, Md. and YOKOHAMA, Japan, Oct. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- MaxCyte, Inc. and Medinet Co., Ltd. (TSE: #2370) announce a joint poster prese...Researchers decode viral process that prepares cells for HIV infection
MANASSAS, Va. -- With the publication of a study led by Yuntao Wu, assistant professor in George Mason University's Department of Molecular and Microbiology, the medical community is one step closer to understanding how the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) attacks cells in the immune system. AID...Carnegie Mellon MRI technology that noninvasively locates, quantifies specific cells in the body
PHILADELPHIAMagnetic resonance imaging (MRI) isn't just for capturing detailed images of the body's anatomy. Thanks to novel imaging reagents and technology developed by Carnegie Mellon University scientist Eric Ahrens, MRI can be used to visualize with "exquisite" specificity cell populations o...Stem cells stand up for themselves
Adult stem cells are not pampered pushovers. O'Reilly et al. report that certain stem cells take charge of their surroundings, molding their environment to control their division and differentiation. Some stem cells are cosseted like newborns. Neighboring cells cradle them in a structure called ...Successful Actress, Author, Businesswoman and Medical Advocate to Assist NeoStem in Public Awareness Program NEW YORK, July 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NeoStem, Inc. (Amex: NBS ) has announced an alliance with Suzanne Somers to create a multi-year awareness program to help e...
Many paths, few destinations: How stem cells decide what they'll be
How does a stem cell decide what specialized identity to adopt or simply to remain a stem cell? A new study suggests that the conventional view, which assumes that cells are instructed to progress along prescribed signaling pathways, is too simplistic. Instead, it supports the idea that cells di...Stem Cells From Menstrual Blood Show Therapeutic Potential
Data in Cell Transplantation Demonstrates Capacity of Menstrual Stem Cells OLDSMAR, Fla., April 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cryo-Cell International, Inc. today announced results of a study published this month in Cell Transplantation showing that stem cells found in menstrual blood proliferate...Method to deliver molecules within embryonic stem cells improves differentiation
Embryonic stem cell therapies have been proposed for regenerative medicine and tissue replacement after injury or disease. However, the inability of stem cells to efficiently develop into the desired specific cell type such as muscle, skin, blood vessels, bone or neurons now limits the potential...NEW YORK, March 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NeoStem, Inc. (Amex: NBS ), which is pioneering the pre-disease collection, processing and long-term storage of adult stem cells for future medical need, today announced that Denis Rodgerson, Ph.D., NeoStem's Director of Stem Cell Science will lectu...
Novocell Reports Successful Use of Stem Cells to Generate Insulin in Mice
Results Demonstrate Potential Future Application of Stem Cells as a Treatment for Diabetes Findings published in Nature Biotechnology SAN DIEGO, Feb. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Novocell, Inc., a stem cell engineering company, today announced data demonstrating f...Transplanted cells may hold the key to curing hemophilia A, Einstein scientists report
Scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have shown for the first time that transplanted cells can cure hemophilia A (the most common form of the disease) in an animal model. Their study appears online February 14 in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. Hemo...BEIJING, Jan. 30 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Tiantan Puhua Hospital Stem Cells Center ( http://www.stemcellspuhua.com ), the worldwide leader in using stem cells to effectively treat Parkinson's and other neurological diseases, announced another historic first in successfully using stem cells to ...
Researchers use magnetism to target cells to animal arteries
Scientists have used magnetic fields and tiny iron-bearing particles to drive healthy cells to targeted sites in blood vessels. The research, done in animals, may lead to a new method of delivering cells and genes to repair injured or diseased organs in people. The study team, led by Robert J. ...A new material, nano flakes, may revolutionise the transformation of solar energy to electricity. If so, even ordinary households can benefit from solar electricity and save money in the future. If researcher Martin Aagesens future solar cells meet the expectations, both your economy and the en...
New use for stem cells found in war on terrorism
For more than a decade, Steve Stice has dedicated his research using embryonic stem cells to improving the lives of people with degenerative diseases and debilitating injuries. His most recent discovery, which produces billions of neural cells from a few stem cells, could now aid in national secur...Other TagscoverslipAMPLAMPLAMPLAMPLAMPLSEQSEQSEQSEQSEQSEQOther Contentspodiatrypoliomyelitisnodosapolyarteritistendernesstendernessovariesovariesovariesovariesivy
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