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2 Nobel Judges to Be Dismissed Over Stem-Cell Doctor Scandal – ABC News

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2016-09-06 NEWS

2 Nobel Judges to Be Dismissed Over StemCell Doctor Scandal
ABC News
The panel that awards the Nobel Prize in medicine is dismissing two judges for their roles in a scandal over a disgraced stem cell scientist at Stockholm’s Karolinska Institute. Nobel Assembly secretary Thomas Perlmann told Swedish news agency TT on …

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2016-09-05 NEWS

USA TODAY

Bart Starr returns to Tijuana for stem cells
USA TODAY
SAN DIEGO – Wearing a sporty black Green Bay Packers polo shirt, Bart Starr got off of a private jet here last week and walked into the California sunshine. This was quite a feat. Starr, 82, had suffered two strokes and a heart attack in 2014, followed

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2016-09-05 NEWS

NPR

FDA Examines Safety And Effectiveness Of Stem Cell Treatments …
NPR
Clinics are using stem cells to treat problems ranging from arthritis and torn tendons to paralysis and stroke. But researchers say there’s no evidence that the …

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2016-09-05 NEWS

Proactive Investors UK

Widecells sets up stem cell storage operation in Brazil
Proactive Investors UK
Stem cell bank WideCells Group PLC (LON:WDC) :has set up an umbilical cord blood processing and storage facility in São Paulo, Brazil. The launch follows a 2016 licensing agreement with Biocells Brasil, which has run the facility since 2012 and already …

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2016-09-04 NEWS

Times of Oman

OmanPride: Indian stem cell hero’s Oman connection – Times Of Oman
Times of Oman
18-year-old former Indian school Wadi Kabir student Aadhithya Dinesh currently pursuing an engineering degree in India, donated his stem cells after a match …

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2016-09-04 NEWS

Little Benefit From Intracardiac Stem Cells Seen in Large HF Trial
MedPage Today
ROME — In one of the largest heart stem cell studies undertaken, injections of stem cells directly into the cardiac muscle did not improve outcomes versus sham procedures, researchers reported here. There were 11 deaths in the active group – 9.2% of