April 26th, 2007 The Texas Institute for Genomic Medicine (TIGM) is readu to include sales of mouse embryonic stem cell clones from the world's largest collection of C57BL/6 and 129SvEv mouse lines. These mouse stem cell clones will be made available to scientists on a case by case basis.

April 13th, 2005 News-Medical-Net reports In an Australian first, UNSW researchers have developed three clones of cells from existing human embryonic stem cells. The breakthrough could lead to new treatments for conditions such as diabetes, Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injury.

March 20th, 2006 Scientists at Seoul National University, led by the embryonic stem cell research scientist Hwang Woo-suk has produced the worlds first cloned dog, Snuppy. The puppy, an Afghan hound, was made from a cell taken from the ear of a three-year-old male Afghan hound and the cell was then fused with the egg cell of a female dog, whose DNA had been removed.

July 24th, 2006 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. Research shows that this virtually limitless supply of stem cells could become any type of cell and could be used to treat diseases ranging from diabetes to Parkinson's disease.

January 9th, 2006 Royan Institute, a research and clinical centre in Iran, scientists successfully used human embryonic stem cells in a novel procedure to heal rats with spinal cord injuries. For the first time neural tubes, structures that give rise to the brain and spinal cord, has been used to treat spinal cord injuries claims scientists.

March 20th, 2007 In a finding that could help researchers better understand autoimmune disease, scientists say a process called autophagy prompts dying embryonic stem cells to send out "eat me" and "come and get me" signals to ensure their elimination by healthy cells. Their findings also suggest that defects in autophagy might trigger autoimmune diseases and, if so, reversing the defects could potentially help treat such diseases, says Dr.

September 15th, 2007 Endometriosis, a disorder in which womb lining cells grow abnormally in the abdomen, causing scar tissue now can be treated by stem cell research as Australian scientists have discovered the process of isolating stem cell from the lining of women's wombs. This discovery also could lead to tissue engineering which could be used to build up natural tissue to repair pelvic floor prolapse, a condition affecting more than 50% of women after childbirth.

June 19th, 2006 What is cord blood banking? Cord blood banking is storing the umbilical cord blood taken from the baby's umbilical cord (which is normally discarded anyway). It can be stored in private cord blood banks (paid for) or government cord blood banks (normally free).