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Gene-edited animals face US regulatory crackdown – Nature.com

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2017-01-20 NEWS

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Gene-edited animals face US regulatory crackdown
Nature.com
Many researchers had hoped that the FDA would be less stringent about evaluating organisms whose genomes have been edited with precise tools — such as CRISPR and a separate technique called TALENs — than it is for animals that have been given …

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Stem Cell Research for Fighting Degenerative Disc Disease
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Current first-line therapies, including spinal fusion and physical therapy, address only the symptoms, and do not treat the underlying degeneration. But now, applying gene therapy, tissue engineering, and stem cell research to treat the degeneration
Study pinpoints how skin cells’ identity can be disassembled to create stem cellsUCLA Newsroom
Stem cell ‘marking’ study offers alterative hypothesis of cancer metastasisScience Daily
Stem cell donor sought for Paris womanBrantford Expositor
Genetic Literacy Project –STAT –Medgadget (blog)
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UCLA Newsroom

Study pinpoints how skin cells’ identity can be disassembled to create stem cells
UCLA Newsroom
Researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA have published a study demonstrating how specialized proteins are able to change the identity, or cellular characteristics, of skin cells and create …
California voters were promised cures. But the state stem cell agency has funded just a trickle of clinical trialsSTAT
Stem cell donor sought for Paris womanBrantford Expositor
Stem cells lay foundation for treatments of cancer, other disordersGenetic Literacy Project
Science Daily –Medgadget (blog) –Phys.Org
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How science can deliver a rosy future
dailytelegraph.com.au
Today the celebrated biomedical scientist and professor at Queensland’s Griffith University is a world authority on the human sense of smell and his groundbreaking work with stem cells has given hope to thousands of Australians with spinal cord injuries.