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Bedford clinic seeks stem cell match for man with leukemia
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If you’re between 17 and 35 years old, you may be able to save Chris LeBrun’s life. LeBrun, 48, was diagnosed with leukemia last May. The accountant and father of two learned last fall that he needs a stem cell donation to beat the disease. But the
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Chris LeBrun seeks genetic stem cell match to fight cancerCBC.ca
Family, friends amp strangers try and locate stem cell match for Bedford, NS manWest Valley News

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Family, friends, strangers try to find stem cell match for Bedford man
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He must find a match and he must have a stem cell transplant to survive,” said Barb Leighton, a lifelong friend of LeBrun’s. Friends set up a swab event Saturday at the LeBrun Recreation Centre on Holland Drive in Bedford. The idea is to get everyone …
Chris LeBrun seeks genetic stem cell match to fight cancerCBC.ca
Bedford clinic seeks stem cell match for man with leukemiaTheChronicleHerald.ca (registration)

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Chris LeBrun seeks genetic stem cell match to fight cancer
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Chris LeBrun’s family made a mission of helping strangers in Bedford, N.S. Now they’re counting on strangers to help them. LeBrun, 48, needs to find a rare genetic match who can provide him with stem cells. Right now, that means convincing Haligonians …

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Mechanical Stress Produces ‘Stem-Like’ Cells Via Nontoxic Method
UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences News
In tissue culture, the researchers changed the mechanical stresses on neuronal and other cell types. Doing so reprogrammed these immortalized, or model, cells into cells with many of the biochemical markers of stem cells. “The possibility that we may

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2015-01-09 NEWS

Mechanical Stress Produces ‘Stem-Like’ Cells Via Nontoxic Method
UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences News
In tissue culture, the researchers changed the mechanical stresses on neuronal and other cell types. Doing so reprogrammed these immortalized, or model, cells into cells with many of the biochemical markers of stem cells. “The possibility that we may