ViaCell to Expand Research Using Stem Cells to Develop New Treatment...

PR Newswire;  July 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ......of ViaCell, Inc. ViaCell has initiated pre-clinic...highly characterized stem cells from adult sources...insulin production. ViaCell has an exclusive...transplantation of pancreatic stem cells that are capable...populations of stem cells. ViaCell is ...

Stem Cells: Next Type of Sports Doping?

AP Online;  September 7, 2006 ;     700+ words ...LONDON - For athletes, stem cells have much more than the potential...the competition. If it sounds like stem cells are next frontier for doping in sports...There's a spin-off technology from stem cells that could produce super-athletes...

STEM CELLS MAY BE NEXT FRONTIER \ POTENTIAL USE RAISES ETHICAL...

The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);  September 8, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Associated Press LONDON -- For athletes, stem cells have much more than the potential to...over the competition. If it sounds like stem cells are next frontier for doping in sports...be. There's a spin-off technology from stem cells that could produce super-athletes, said...

Will stem cells transform medicine?

Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings;  April 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...In 1998, human pluripotent stem cells--self-renewing, unspecialized cells that...scientists to explore the potential of stem cells to regenerate in place of damaged cells...insulin-dependent diabetes, or heart failure by using stem cells to grow new organs or tissues? Can these...

Stem cells harvested during plastic surgery

Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL);  December 7, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Bahram Ghaderi checks on the collection of stem cells during a liposuction procedure Friday...California-based company StemSource to harvest stem cells -- a technology at the cutting edge of...usually discarded after liposuction. Stem cells are thought to have enormous potential...

The holy grail of medical science: to create the ultimate body- repair kit...

The Independent - London;  September 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Stem cells have been the holy grail of medicine...showing that it was possible to extract stem cells from early human embryos and grow them...specialised tissues. The idea behind stem cells is beautifully simple. If doctors had...

Stem cells not clear solution to cure diseases.

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  August 3, 2004 ;     700+ words ......few Americans concerned themselves with stem cells. Now the phrase conjures up hope for...big money for biotech companies. Yet stem cells are still a long way from curing paralysis...become mired in confusion and controversy. Stem cells turn out to be more complicated and less...

A new look into cancer's roots: Scientists revive study of stem cells'...

Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD);  March 19, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Chris Emery Mar. 19--Scientists hope that someday stem cells will cure diseases. Pamela Joseph fears that cancer stem cells will kill her first. As her doctors explain it, stem cells are the source of multiple myeloma, a blood cancer the...

Doctors harvest stem cells during liposuction surgery

Courier-News (Elgin, IL);  December 7, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Bahram Ghaderi examines the collection of stem cells from patient Wes Hayes during a liposuction...California-based company, to harvest stem cells -- a technology at the cutting edge of...usually is discarded after liposuction. Stem cells are thought to have enormous potential...

ViaCell Supports National Program to Bank Donated Umbilical Cord Blood...

PR Newswire;  April 18, 2005 ;     700+ words ......General Manager of ViaCell Reproductive Health...of umbilical cord stem cells. We have also seen...increased banking of stem cells by families, an area in which ViaCell's ViaCord product...clinical trial. ViaCell also offers expecting...baby's cord blood stem ...

Study links inflammation, stem cells

Daily Breeze;  January 3, 2005 ;     540 words ...Scientists have known that stem cells restore the body's health by targeting...researchers couldn't say exactly how stem cells began this work in the first place. One...study recently published online, is that stem cells travel to sites of trouble by sensing...

Can Science Bridge the Stem Cell Divide?(embryonic stem cells)(Editorial)

Genomics and Proteomics;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Discussions about the use of embryonic stem cells are taking on the heat and rhetoric...debate over the use of embryonic stem cells (ESCs) could be effectively sidestepped, if only adult (somatic) stem cells could behave the same way that embryonic...

Analysis: Scientists report promising results from studies with human...

NPR All Things Considered;  March 6, 2002 ;     638 words ......promising results from studies with human adult stem cells Host: ROBERT SIEGEL Time: 9:00-10:00 PM ROBERT...promising results from studies with human adult stem cells. If adult stem cells turn out to be useful for treating human diseases...

ADULT BONE MARROW STEM CELLS SHOW PROMISE

United Press International;  December 20, 2002 ;     698 words ...00-00-0000 Adult bone marrow stem cells show promise LOS ANGELES, Dec 20, 2002 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Stem cells taken from adult bone marrow show potential...tested the possible benefits to using stem cells extracted from adult bone marrow in rats...

Adult bone marrow stem cells show promise.

United Press International;  December 20, 2002 ;     689 words ......United Press International via COMTEX) Stem cells taken from adult bone marrow show potential...tested the possible benefits to using stem cells extracted from adult bone marrow in rats...viruses to transport the bone marrow stem cells into the arteries of rats with ischemic...