When you are denying the hopes of millions of American families with loved ones suffering from diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, heart disease, cancer and spinal cord injuries, there is really is no good way to explain it.
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Nearly 6 in 10 Americans disapprove of President Bush’s decision to veto a bill that would have expanded federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
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Embryonic stem cells are surely having important advantages over adult stem cells.
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A Melbourne based quadriplegic man will be able to seek radical stem cell treatment in China after winning a protracted legal battle.
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Texas’ only state-sanctioned cord blood bank in San Antonio has reached a major milestone. With more than 800 units banked in the last year, the Texas Cord Blood Bank, housed at the South Texas Blood and Tissue Center, is now part of the National Marrow Donor Program and accredited by the American Association of Blood Banks.
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Scientists have used stem cells and a soup of nerve-friendly chemicals to not just bridge a damaged spinal cord but actually regrow the circuitry needed to move a muscle, helping partially paralysed rats walk.
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Transplanting human embryonic stem cells does not cause harm and can be used as a therapeutic strategy for the treatment of acute spinal cord injury, according to a recent study by UC Irvine researchers.
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Cord Blood America, says, that scientific studies indicate the stem cells harvested from human fat tissue have the ability to become nerve cells that could be used to treat brain and spinal-cord injuries and other disorders.
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ViaCell, Inc. today announced that it has enrolled and treated the last patient in the CB001 Phase I clinical trial and has begun the 100-day post-transplant follow-up.
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California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has authorised a $150m (about R10bn) loan to fund the state’s moribund stem cell institute, a day after United States President George W Bush vetoed a measure to expand federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.
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