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Akshay youngest stem cell donor in Kerala – Deccan Chronicle

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2014-08-27 NEWS

Akshay youngest stem cell donor in Kerala
Deccan Chronicle
“His was a 10/10 match and he readily agreed to donate,” said Eby Sam John, one of the three other donors from Kerala who is now working as a coordinator of Datri, the NGO which maintains a registry of willing stem cell donors. Akshay’s mother, a

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Stem cell trial for spinal cord injuries cleared by FDA
San Francisco Business Times (blog)
Asterias Biotherapeutics Inc. of Menlo Park received Food and Drug Administration clearance Wednesday to go forward with a 13-person safety study of so-called oligodendrocyte progenitor cells, or OPCs. Those cells, derived from embryonic stem cells
Stem cell industry’s ‘huge development’ in Bay AreaSFGate

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2014-08-27 NEWS

Stem cell trial for spinal cord injuries cleared by FDA
San Francisco Business Times (blog)
Asterias Biotherapeutics Inc. of Menlo Park received Food and Drug Administration clearance Wednesday to go forward with a 13-person safety study of so-called oligodendrocyte progenitor cells, or OPCs. Those cells, derived from embryonic stem cells
Stem cell industry’s ‘huge development’ in Bay AreaSFGate

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2014-08-27 NEWS

Japanese lab at centre of stemcell scandal to be reformed
Nature.com (blog)
The RIKEN Centre for Developmental Biology (CDB) in Kobe is renowned as a world-leading organization for studying stem cells. But its reputation has been severely damaged by this year’s scandal: CDB biochemist Haruko Obokata was found guilty of …