Scientists at a small California biotechnology company reported yesterday that they had developed a process to turn human embryonic stem cells into pancreatic cells that can produce insulin and other hormones.
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Patient Robert Gagne motorcycled thousands of miles in comfort. And on his many stops, he didn’t once turn to the local Yellow Pages to look up the nearest emergency room, as he was used to doing for many years.
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The state would invest $270 million in stem cell research under legislation advanced Thursday by an Assembly committee.
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LifeCell, pioneers in stem cell banking and research in India, today announced that Dr Amit N Patel has joined its scientific advisory board.
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Israeli human embryonic stem cell research is 2nd in world, with its researchers Just after the US in absolute (not per capita) numbers of publications in scientific journals up to the end of 2005 - way ahead of the UK, Korea, China, Singapore, Australia, Sweden and Canada.
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More than a millon Americans who suffer from the debilitating neurological disorder Parkinson’s disease are likely to be among the first to benefit from promising advances in embryonic stem cell research, unless political controversy keeps slowing down the process, scientists said Monday.
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Cardiologist Dr. Shalin Thakore has for the first time in the state performed stem cell therapy on a cardiac patient. The doctor and his team is also the first in the country to use intra-coronary injection of stem cell technique.
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Private stem cell majors like Reliance Life Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), LifeCell and Cryostem Karnataka Pvt Ltd will soon have to apply for licences under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act as India plans to join a handful of countries regulating stem cells.
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Leading tissue and cord blood banking company CyGenics Ltd. (ASX: CYN)(PNK: CYGCF) and Indonesia’s leading pharma company, PT Kalbe Farma Tbk, today officially launched their joint venture cord blood banking company, CordLife Indonesia.
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A India Scientist Hinduja Zavari is one of the first scientists to have created embryonic stem cell lines without using mouse feeder cells to grow them. Indira Hinduja, who created the country’s first test-tube baby, used human feeder cells to grow the embryonic stem cell lines so they would not be contaminated.
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