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University of Miami’s Stem Cell Institute receives $25M donation – Sun Sentinel

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2015-12-11

Sun Sentinel

University of Miami’s Stem Cell Institute receives $25M donation
Sun Sentinel
The University of Miami’s Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute has received a $25 million donation from the Soffer Family Foundation. The funding will help the institute explore new cell-based therapies in cardiology, sports medicine, and aging

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2015-12-10

‘Ghost Fibers’ Left By Injured Muscle Cells Guide Stem Cells To Regenerate
Science 2.0
But scientists at the Carnegie Institution for Science and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) who developed a technique to observe muscle stem/progenitor cells migrating within injury sites in live mice, report that

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2015-12-10

San Francisco Business Times (blog)

Could California’s stem cell agency spin out its best projects to a venture
San Francisco Business Times (blog)
A startup company could cherry pick some of the best stem cell projects bankrolled by California taxpayers as part of an ambitious — and risky — plan from the state’s stem cell research funding agency. The California Institute for Regenerative

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2015-12-10

Waupaca County News

Cancer patient meets stem cell donor
Waupaca County News
Without a bone marrow/stem cell transplant, there would not be much of a future for Kraus. She began intense chemotherapy in Appleton and worked with Froedtert Cancer Center in Milwaukee as the donor search continued. Kraus’ older sister was in the

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2015-12-10

UM’s Stem Cell Institute receives $25M donation
Wink News
MIAMI (AP) – The University of Miami’s Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute has received a $25 million donation from the Soffer Family Foundation. The funding will help the institute explore new cell-based therapies in cardiology, sports medicine, and …

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