Stem Cells Archive
By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY National Institutes of Health chief Francis Collins Wednesday announced the first 13 human embryonic stem cell “lines” approved for federal research funding, under new rules put forward by the Obama Administration this year. “What we are announcing today is just the beginning,” Collins said at a Wednesday briefing.
In an unimposing brick building located in the heart of Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood, lives a repository of information that could lead to the cures for Cancer, Parkinson’s Disease, Diabetes, spinal cord injury and a host of other diseases. In early March, when President Obama cleared the way
FOR BLOOD STEM CELLS, THE FORCE IS STRONG Blood flow, nitric oxide boost production of stem cell Blood stem cells grow with the flow, two new studies show. The studies, led by independent groups at Children’s Hospital Boston, report that an embryo’s heartbeat and blood circulation stimulate the growth
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary______________________________________________________________________________FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, March 9, 2009 Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery Signing of Stem Cell Executive Order and Scientific Integrity Presidential MemorandumWashington, DCMarch 9, 2009 Today, with the Executive Order I am about to sign, we will bring
This is what they did: Reoved cells and MHC antigens from a human donor trachea, which was then readily colonised by epithelial cells and mesenchymal stem-cell-derived chondrocytes that had been cultured from cells taken from the recipient (a 30-year old woman with end-stage bronchomalacia). This graft was then used