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Untested stem cell treatments proliferate in Australia, study finds – The Guardian

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2016-08-04 NEWS

The Guardian

Untested stem cell treatments proliferate in Australia, study finds
The Guardian
Australia has among the world’s highest concentrations of stem cell businesses advertising medical and cosmetic treatments online, despite a lack of evidence about the efficacy or safety of many of those procedures, a study has found. A senior author
Stem cell clinics exploiting regulatory loop holes to sell questionable treatments: expertsABC Online
Stem cell ‘tourists’ flock to Australia – The AustralianThe Australian
Advanced economy nations have high rates of online marketing of stem cell theraEurekAlert (press release)
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ABC News

Health|NIH May Fund Human-Animal Stem Cell Research
New York Times
Researchers have long been putting human cells into animals — like pieces of human tumors in mice to test drugs that might destroy the tumors — but stem cell research is fundamentally different. The stem cells are put into developing embryos where
Government to lift moratorium on cross-species, ‘Chimera’ researchWashington Times
NIH Plans to Lift Funding Ban on Human-Animal HybridsMIT Technology Review
NIH moves to lift moratorium on animal-human chimera researchScience Magazine
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Advanced economy nations have high rates of online marketing of stem cell therapies
Medical Xpress
Advanced economy nations led by Ireland, Singapore, Australia, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United States have the highest per capita number of clinics engaging in direct-to-consumer marketing of stem cell therapies, according to the world’s largest
Stem cell ‘tourists’ flock to AustraliaThe Australian
Stem Cell Therapies Market – 330 Pipeline Products, yet Commercial Challenges PrevailPR Newswire (press release)

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Stem cell ‘tourists’ flock to Australia
The Australian
A global study has found Australia easily surpasses medical tourism hot spots such as Thailand in the number of stem cell practices marketing services directly to customers. The study, published this morning in the journal Cell Stem Cell, found clinics
Advanced economy nations have high rates of online marketing of stem cell therapiesMedical Xpress
Stem Cell Therapies Market – 330 Pipeline Products, yet Commercial Challenges PrevailPR Newswire (press release)

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Phys.Org

Breakthrough in understanding how stem cells become specialized
Phys.Org
“We found that the stem cell-specific protein OCT4 primes certain genes that, when activated, cause the cell to differentiate, or become more specialized,” said Laszlo Nagy, M.D., Ph.D., professor and director of the Genomic Control of Metabolism

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EurekAlert (press release)

Engineering adult stem cells to regenerate tissue twice as fast
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“Characterizing how cells behave in 3-Dimensional (3D) synthetic material is critical to advancing biomaterial design used in wound healing, tissue engineering and stem cell expansion.” Schultz recently received a three-year grant from National

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Stem Cell Therapies Market – 330 Pipeline Products, yet Commercial Challenges Prevail
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RnRMarketResearch.com adds “Stem Cell Therapies – Global Trends in the Competitive, Technological and R&D Landscape” 2016 market research report to its store providing an in-depth assessment of the current trends in the global stem cell therapy sector …

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