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Hwang’s stem cell aspirations fail again – Korea Times

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2016-07-24 NEWS

Hwang’s stem cell aspirations fail again
Korea Times
Korea’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) has rejected the registration of a stem cell line, dubbed NT-1, created by former Seoul National University professor Hwang Woo-suk, citing a lack of scientific evidence to prove that the line

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2016-07-24 NEWS

Telegraph.co.uk

Major breakthrough against heart failure after scientists use stem cells in ‘astonishing’ trial which could help
Telegraph.co.uk
Heart attack patients who were not expected to live are fit and healthy after scientists regenerated their hearts with stem cells in a ground-breaking trial which could help millions of people with heart failure. The research is the first to show that

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2016-07-24 NEWS

ACC leads stem cell training
Burlington Times News
SCIENCE — Twelve professors are gathered around a screen watching heart muscle cells, formally called “cardiomyocytes,” beat under the lens of a microscope. The cells were developed over nine days from stem cells taken from a mouse, and now they’re …

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2016-07-22 NEWS

Drug Discovery & Development

Stem Cell Therapies Still Face Commercial Challenges Despite Abundant Pipeline
Drug Discovery & Development
While steady progress in clinical research and increasing evidence of product effectiveness are significant driving factors for growth in the stem cell therapies market, a number of obstacles remain before they become widely commercially viable

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2016-07-22 NEWS

Gene controls regeneration of injured muscle by adult stem cells
Science Daily
“This work places the origin of certain muscle diseases squarely within muscle stem cells, and shows that AUF1 is a vital controller of adult muscle stem cell fate,” says Robert Schneider, PhD, the Albert B. Sabin Professor of Microbiology and