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Stem cell medicine – ABC Science Online

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2014-09-01 NEWS

Stem cell medicine
ABC Science Online
Professor Irv Weissman and Dr Ann Tsukamoto discovered human blood stem cells in 1992. Today they’re trialling treatments for cancer and degenerative diseases. They are both concerned about the over promising of stem cell medicine and unproven …

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2014-08-31 NEWS

Stem Cell Research for ALS Causes Concern in Catholic Community
TWC News
“There is some concern among a lot of Catholics that the ALS foundation has done a little bit of embryonic stem cell research. And even a little bit can be too much” said David Hains, the Communications Director for the Charlotte Diocese. Hains said

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2014-08-31 NEWS

The Man Who Grew Eyes: Latest in StemCell Research
The Epoch Times
Growing nerve tissue and organs is a sci-fi dream. Moheb Costandi met the pioneering researcher who grew eyes and brain cells. The train line from mainland Kobe is a marvel of urban transportation. Opened in 1981, Japan’s first driverless, fully

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2014-08-31 NEWS

Economic Times

PM Modi’s day out: Prayers at Toji temple, meeting with stem cell scientist
Hindustan Times
Modi then met Shinya Yamanaka, who received the 2012 Nobel prize for medicine for his work on stem cells. Modi is understood to have raised the problem of sickle cell anaemia, a disease which is prevalent in some of India’s tribal population, and
Modi visits ancient Toji Temple, stem cell research centre in KyotoNetIndian
Kyoto will help Modi’s Varanasi ‘smarten up’Times of India
Modi Goes to Buddhist Temples, Meets Kyoto MayorThe New Indian Express
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2014-08-31 NEWS

Economic Times

PM Modi’s day out: Prayers at Toji temple, meeting with stem cell scientist
Hindustan Times
Modi then met Shinya Yamanaka, who received the 2012 Nobel prize for medicine for his work on stem cells. Modi is understood to have raised the problem of sickle cell anaemia, a disease which is prevalent in some of India’s tribal population, and
Modi visits ancient Toji Temple, stem cell research centre in KyotoNetIndian
Kyoto will help Modi’s Varanasi ‘smarten up’Times of India
Modi Goes to Buddhist Temples, Meets Kyoto MayorThe New Indian Express
Zee News –Economic Times –The Hindu
all 1,461 news articles »
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2014-08-30 NEWS

Benefit to help pay for stemcell transplant
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
VILLA GROVE — A benefit dinner to help with upcoming expenses for a stem cell transplant for Tom Ryan of Villa Grove will be held from 4-7 p.m. Sept. 13 at Villa Grove United Methodist Church, 302 Second St., Villa Grove. Ryan, who was born with a