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Melanoma Cancer vs. The California Stem Cell Program: Disease-a-week Challenge #10 – Huffington Post

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2015-07-30 NEWS

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Melanoma Cancer vs. The California Stem Cell Program: Disease-a-week Challenge #10
Huffington Post
In the classic movie GOLDFINGER, James Bond is tied on his back to a table, while a buzzing crackling laser beam is just about to saw him in half. Bond struggles helplessly, then calls out to the villain: “Do you expect me to talk? And Auric Goldfinger

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2015-07-30 NEWS

Four StemCell Stocks With Promise
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“Umbilical cords are being used more and more in bone-marrow transplants, but there are a lot of problems with umbilical cords, including trying to expand these cells and get them to work really well,” he said. “Fate has developed a drug that can now

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2015-07-30 NEWS

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Scientists create functional liver cells from stem cells: Major implications
EurekAlert (press release)
“While other groups have been able to produce liver cells before us, their cells showed little functional activity, and could not be reliably used for drug discovery. In fact, up until now stem cell-derived hepatocytes showed little ability to predict

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Heart stem cell researchers’ lawsuit against Harvard and BWH dismissed
Science /AAAS
A case brought by two cardiac stem cell researchers against their institution for allegedly mishandling a misconduct investigation was dismissed by a federal judge in Massachusetts this week. The plaintiffs, Piero Anversa and Annarosa Leri, had sued

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2015-07-30 NEWS

Science /AAAS

Heart stem cell researchers’ lawsuit against Harvard and BWH dismissed
Science /AAAS
A case brought by two cardiac stem cell researchers against their institution for allegedly mishandling a misconduct investigation was dismissed by a federal judge in Massachusetts this week. The plaintiffs, Piero Anversa and Annarosa Leri, had sued

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2015-07-30 NEWS

Stem cells Transdifferentiation from the top
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Both groups reproduced OKSM transdifferentiation experiments to generate induced neural stem cells (iNSCs) and cardiomyocytes (iCMs) from mouse fibroblasts but soon began questioning the mechanism of conversion. Hochedlinger’s group detected cells …