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Gene Signatures for Deadliest Prostate Cancers and Basal Stem Cells Overlap – Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

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2016-02-29

Gene Signatures for Deadliest Prostate Cancers and Basal Stem Cells Overlap
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
Prostate basal cells are intrinsically enriched in gene sets normally associated with stem cells, report researchers based at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. These researchers also found that the basal cell gene signature was
Study links normal stem cells to aggressive prostate cancerEurekAlert (press release)

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2016-02-29

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Stem Cell Transplant Patients More Prone to Depression
Monthly Prescribing Reference (registration)
HealthDay News — A considerable proportion of patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HCT) meet the criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression at 6 months after the procedure, according to a study published

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2016-02-29

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A blind woman has regained sight following a controversial stem cell treatment
ScienceAlert
Vanna Belton from Baltimore has been blind for more than five years, but after undergoing surgery where stem cells extracted from her bone marrow were injected into her right eye’s retina and left eye’s optic nerve, she has regained some of her sight
Stem cells apparently reverse woman’s blindnessHouston Chronicle

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2016-02-28

Stem cell marvel to replace surgery
dailytelegraph.com.au
The studies, done in partnership with Magellan Stem Cells and overseen by Monash and La Trobe universities, are the first Australian trials in which patients’ own isolated and expanded mesenchymal stem cells have been injected into their own knee joints.