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UofS, Harvard Ink Deal for Research of Stem Cell Treatment for Parkinson’s Disease – Saskatoonhomepage.ca

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2015-09-14 NEWS

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UofS, Harvard Ink Deal for Research of Stem Cell Treatment for Parkinson’s Disease
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The process involves taking stem cells from a patient’s skin or blood, and converting them into a brain stem cell, rich in dopamine neurons. That takes about 2-3 months to do. Once they are injected into the brain, the dopamine is released and the
University of Saskatchewan, Harvard team up for groundbreaking Parkinson’s Saskatoon StarPhoenix
University of Saskatchewan partners with Harvard-affiliate on brain repairCBC.ca
U of S scientists work towards clinical trial for Parkinson’s treatment650 CKOM News Talk Radio

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BET inhibitor resistance emerges from leukaemia stem cells
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Here we use primary mouse haematopoietic stem and progenitor cells immortalized with the fusion protein MLL–AF9 to generate several single-cell clones that demonstrate resistance, in vitro and in vivo, to the prototypical BET inhibitor, I-BET