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Doctor Uses Stem Cells to Cure ‘Bubble Baby’ Disease – Parenting Magazine

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2015-12-01

Parenting Magazine

Doctor Uses Stem Cells to Cure ‘Bubble Baby’ Disease
Parenting Magazine
Then they enrolled Evangelina in a clinical trial with Dr. Donald Kohn at the Broad Stem Cell Research Center at UCLA. Kohn took bone marrow from the baby and gathered stem cells. He then cloned a gene to replace what Evangelina was missing at birth.

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2015-12-01

BioTime Could Be The Next Acquisition Target In The Stem Cell Sector
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With Ocata Therapeutics being acquired by Astellas Pharma, a very similar company based on its therapeutic stem cell platform and IP, BioTime, Inc., could be next. Japan’s recent legislation has created an opportunity for regenerative medicine

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2015-12-01

BioTime Could Be The Next Acquisition Target In The Stem Cell Sector
Seeking Alpha
With Ocata Therapeutics being acquired by Astellas Pharma, a very similar company based on its therapeutic stem cell platform and IP, BioTime, Inc., could be next. Japan’s recent legislation has created an opportunity for regenerative medicine

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2015-12-01

Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

New Approach Described for Eliminating Cancer Stem Cells
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
Their study (“Reversion to an embryonic alternative splicing program enhances leukemia stem cell self-renewal”), described in PNAS, suggests the basis for a potential new therapeutic approach to eradicate blood cancers. In fact, researchers found that
Discovery of an embryonic switch for cancer stem cell generationEurekAlert (press release)

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2015-12-01

R & D Magazine

Researchers develop more precise way to control differentiation of stem cells
News-Medical.net
Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have developed a new, more precise way to control the differentiation of stem cells into bone cells.
Changing the fate of stem cellsR & D Magazine
Novel technique to help grow bone cellsEconomic Times
Scientists find better way to grow bone cellsInternational Business Times AU

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