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One MS patient’s ‘starting line’ for stem cell therapy – Fox News

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2014-10-14 NEWS

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One MS patient’s ‘starting line’ for stem cell therapy
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I am one of twenty struggling every day with multiple sclerosis to be included in an innovative, phase one stem cell clinical trial at the Tisch MS Research Center of New York. Now there’s a mouthful. Please let me explain. Many of us read tidbits

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One signal means different things to stem cells versus their progeny
Medical Xpress
“Both hair follicle stem cells and a set of transitional progenitors that arise from them respond to growth factors called BMPs,” says Elaine Fuchs, Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor and head of the Robin Chemers Neustein Laboratory of Mammalian Cell …

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Medical Xpress

One signal means different things to stem cells versus their progeny
Medical Xpress
“Both hair follicle stem cells and a set of transitional progenitors that arise from them respond to growth factors called BMPs,” says Elaine Fuchs, Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor and head of the Robin Chemers Neustein Laboratory of Mammalian Cell …

and more »

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Transplant of Bethel Park woman’s stem cells will be used to stop advance of
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“Autogolous transplant is done by using the patient’s own stem cells, and it has been shown to prolong survival,” said hematologist Cyrus M. Khan, the assistant director of the cell transplant program at cancer institute, who will perform the transplant.