Perfect match: embryonic stem cells carry patients' DNA.(This Week)

Science News;  May 21, 2005 ;     581 words ...Made-to-order stem cells that genetically...with problems that stem cells may one day treat...isolated 11 new lines of stem cells that exactly match...cloning, which yields stem cells that can be used...therapeutic cloning extract stem cells that carry the ...

Leukemia and Cancer Stem Cells

The Scientist;  April 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......understanding and treatment of cancers. Putative cancer stem cells can be recognized by three attributes: They constitute...nontumorigenic progeny. Many normal tissues start with stem cells. In a tightly regulated sequence, daughter cells...chromosomemarking experiments supporting the existence of ...

BRAIN CELLS AT WORK UW RESEARCHER'S DISCOVERY MAY REVOLUTIONIZE STUDY OF...

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  January 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ......cell in the body. They only showed that brain stem cells can be changed into blood stem cells. ``But it definitely raises the possibility of...were prompted to try transforming adult brain stem cells into blood stem cells after noticing some ``quirky findings'' in ...

New stem cells sidestep moral debate at Rutgers

University Wire;  December 12, 2007 ;     530 words ......the moral issues associated with using embryonic stem cells," said Student Society for Stem Cell Research...University, discussed the new induced Pluripotent stem cells. "One group came up with a four genes that are expressed in embryonic stem cells. They prevent the cells ...

Scientist: I Didn't Cultivate Stem Cells

AP Online;  November 14, 2006 ;     333 words ......succeeded in cultivating stem cells matched to patients...cloned human embryonic stem cells, said he "succeeded...blastocysts for tailored stem cells but there wasn't...patient-specific) stem cells," his lawyer Jung...cloned embryonic stem cells, including ...

Mouse Stem Cells Can Grow Into Eggs

AP Online;  May 1, 2003 ;     666 words ......Dateline: WASHINGTON Mouse embryonic stem cells turned spontaneously into eggs...remove a major obstacle from using stem cells to treat disease. Without using...University of Pennsylvania said stem cells from mouse embryos will transform...impossible to grow gametes from stem ...

Mouse stem cells grow spontaneously into eggs; study could lead to...

AP Worldstream;  May 1, 2003 ;     668 words ......Dateline: WASHINGTON Mouse embryonic stem cells turned spontaneously into eggs...remove a major obstacle from using stem cells to treat disease. Without using...University of Pennsylvania said stem cells from mouse embryos will transform...impossible to grow gametes from stem ...

Researchers say they cloned monkey stem cells

International Herald Tribune;  November 16, 2007 ;     700+ words ......quite sure it will work in humans." The monkey stem cells were genetically identical to those of an adult...patients have long hoped that human embryonic stem cells would be used to study diseases and supply replacement...ahead. An advantage of using cloning to obtain stem cells is ...

Researchers report success in cloning monkey stem cells

International Herald Tribune;  November 16, 2007 ;     700+ words ......quite sure it will work in humans." The monkey stem cells were genetically identical to an adult monkey...advocacy groups have long hoped that human embryonic stem cells would be used to study diseases and supply replacement...ahead. An advantage of using cloning to obtain stem cells ...

Scientists Create Customized Stem Cells

AP Online;  May 19, 2005 ;     700+ words ......shows how scientists created stem cells. (AP Graphic) South Korean...s first human embryonic stem cells that are customized to injured...year became the first to clone a human embryo, sparking...clamor. But those cloned stem cells _ the building blocks that...cloned ...

Scientists seeking to change baby equation Goal to harvest human embryonic...

Oakland Tribune;  May 11, 2003 ;     700+ words ......The ultimate goal is to harvest human embryonic stem cells without fertilized eggs or cloned embryos, the...stem cell sources. Researchers have harvested stem cells from unfertilized mouse and monkey eggs that were...that much more research is needed to ensure that stem cells ...

2 labs aim to clone human embryos: Stem cells sought to fight disease.

Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA);  June 7, 2006 ;     700+ words ......yesterday they were trying to clone human embryos to harvest stem cells genetically matched to patients...that working with embryonic stem cells holds tremendous promise for...potential of genetically tailored stem cells is hit-or-miss, if not nonexistent...

Stem cells will be a leap for mankind.(News)

Sunday Tribune (South Africa);  November 4, 2007 ;     671 words ......to researchers, embryonic stem cells, also referred to as the...and tissue. However, the stem cells are taken from five to six-day-old harvested embryos. Stem cells also have the potential...could give birth to her own clone. Prof Ames Dhai, Director...types of disease, ...

SCIENTISTS CLONE MICE FROM ADULT SKIN STEM CELLS

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 12, 2007 ;     641 words ......postdocs Valentina Greco and Graldine Guasch isolated stem cells from the mice's hair follicles. They gave these stem cells to Jinsong Li, a postdoc in Rockefeller's Laboratory...each oocyte with a nucleus from the adult skin stem cells. A main hurdle in nuclear transfer with ...

STUDY FINDS STEM CELLS COULD BECOME EGGS ONE BIOETHICIST SAID THE STUDY IS...

Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);  May 2, 2003 ;     700+ words ......suggests that embryonic stem cells can be coaxed to transform...they were able to cause stem cells from mouse embryos to transform...eggs and sperm cells) from stem cells outside the body, said...for cloning. Embryonic stem cells can grow into virtually...say they would ...