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Female stem cells could be better for heart repair, disease treatment – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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2014-11-16 NEWS

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Female stem cells could be better for heart repair, disease treatment
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Above is a pig heart, which has been stripped of all its cells, leaving only the scaffolding to grow a new heart with human stem cells. This approach may be used in the future to repair heart damage or even generate new hearts for transplantation. Pig
Evaluating California’s stem cell experimentSacramento Bee
Canadians Urged to Make a Life-saving Investment in Stem CellsSYS-CON Media (press release)

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2014-11-14 NEWS

Montreal Gazette

23-year-old with Hodgkin’s desperate for stem cell donor
Montreal Gazette
After undergoing chemo, radiotherapy and a failed autograft, Skelling’s last hope is to find a stem cell transplant of a compatible donor’s bone marrow or umbilical cord blood. Four months since the family and Héma-Québec put out a call for donors

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2014-11-14 NEWS

Montreal Gazette

23-year-old with Hodgkin’s desperate for stem cell donor
Montreal Gazette
After undergoing chemo, radiotherapy and a failed autograft, Skelling’s last hope is to find a stem cell transplant of a compatible donor’s bone marrow or umbilical cord blood. Four months since the family and Héma-Québec put out a call for donors

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2014-11-14 NEWS

Jovana Drinjakovic: Moratorium on embryonic stemcell research, tight
Dallas Morning News
It all underscores how the United States has surrendered its lead in the field of stemcell research, in large part because of the George W. Bush administration’s 2001 ban on research that used new human embryonic cell lines but also because of slow …

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2014-11-14 NEWS

Jovana Drinjakovic: Moratorium on embryonic stemcell research, tight
Dallas Morning News
It all underscores how the United States has surrendered its lead in the field of stemcell research, in large part because of the George W. Bush administration’s 2001 ban on research that used new human embryonic cell lines but also because of slow …