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Quebec family hopes to raise awareness for patients in need with stem cell registry drive – Globalnews.ca

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2017-02-05 NEWS

Globalnews.ca

Quebec family hopes to raise awareness for patients in need with stem cell registry drive
Globalnews.ca
Natasha Camacho-Gomes (middle right, standing) organized a bone marrow registry drive Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017 to raise awareness for patients in need. Her Fiancé Kevin Butterfill is one of those patients. He was diagnosed with leukemia in January.

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2017-02-04 NEWS

Radio Australia

Mosul: A frontline dispatch from the war against Islamic State
Radio Australia
Mosul is in shock… a sort of state of suspended animation. The Islamic State (IS) group still controls the west of the city, but Government forces control the east. Over the last month, Iraqi Government forces have routed the so-called IS and seized

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2017-02-04 NEWS

Unions take on regents, state over bargaining rules AFSCME, UNI faculty file complaints as lawmakers expected to …
Sioux City Journal
DES MOINES | Unions representing tens of thousands of employees — including many across Iowa’s public universities — are accusing the state and the Board of Regents of acting in bad faith by ignoring collective bargaining rules and instead putting

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2017-02-04 NEWS

Los Angeles Times

California’s stem cell program ponders a future of new challenges and old promises
Los Angeles Times
Evangelina Padilla Vaccaro of Corona is the new face of stem cell science in California. Born with “bubble baby” disease that deprived her of a functioning immune system, she was cured with stem cell therapy developed in Donald Kohn’s lab at UCLA