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UCSD Announces Human Testing Of Stem Cell Treatment Underway – KPBS

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2014-10-21 NEWS

UCSD Announces Human Testing Of Stem Cell Treatment Underway
KPBS
UC San Diego Health System announced Monday that human testing of injected neural stem cell therapies are underway at its Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center. Researchers are conducting three different trials — one on a 26-year-old woman paralyzed after …

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Husson pharmacy professor ‘excited’ to be selected for stem cell donation
Bangor Daily News
During the next few weeks, Lambert will take advantage of what he sees as an opportunity of a lifetime — the chance to anonymously donate stem cells to a patient facing almost certain death without them. In March, a student organization at Husson

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2014-10-20 NEWS

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Megakaryocytes Might Facilitate Adult Stem Cell Regeneration
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (blog)
Scientists from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research have discovered that megakaryocytes, best known for producing platelets that heal wounds, also play a critical role in regulating stem cells. In fact, hematopoietic stem cells differentiate to
Progeny ‘mega cells’ pivotal in adult stem cell transplantZee News
Parent stem cells controlled by progenyDaijiworld.com
New Insight That “Mega” Cells Control the Growth of Blood-Producing CellsScicasts (press release) (registration) (blog)

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2014-10-20 NEWS

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Spare parts for people? Stem cell-generated human intestine grown in lab mouse
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Researchers have successfully transplanted functioning human intestinal tissue grown from stem cells into mice. The breakthrough could revolutionize the production of spare organs for people, using cells from their own bodies. “These studies support
Researchers Unlock a New Way to Grow Intestinal Stem CellsLaboratory Equipment
Human intestine grown in mouse for first time as scientists say there is hope The Independent
Human intestines grown inside mice for the first timeTimes of India
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