Stem Cells

Professor Alan Trounson – World focus on stem cell research – Video


19-01-2012 22:48 Professor Trounson’s presentation focuses on how stem cell research has the potential to yield groundbreaking new tools to understand and develop therapies for CP and related brain disorders. He also discusses the challenging nature of the research and its high risk to investigators which in many cases requires novel interdisciplinary collaborations and an increased focus on translations. Continue reading

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5. Stem Cells for Cardiac Repair | Mini Med School – Video


08-02-2012 18:24 (October 25, 2011) Associate Professor at the Stanford School of Medicine, Joseph Wu explores how stem cells may be used in the future to repair hearts that have failed. This course is a single-quarter, focused follow-up to the the yearlong Mini Med School that occurred in 2009-10. The course focuses on diseases of the heart and cardiovascular system. Continue reading

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Study: Stem Cells Reverse Heart Damage – Video


15-02-2012 13:09 BY ALYSSA CARTEE ANCHOR MEGAN MURPHY A breakthrough discovery in stem cell treatments. Continue reading

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Heart stem cells repair muscle damage – Video


14-02-2012 11:04 CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports on a new stem cell therapy that might heal damage after a heart attack. Continue reading

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At $290,000 test-tube burger is a taste of what's to come

Would you like fries with that? British celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal could be flipping test-tube burgers. LURKING in a petri dish in a laboratory in the Netherlands is an unlikely contender for the future of food. Continue reading

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Effort aims to create meat from bovine stem cells

(CNN) – If you're concerned about the ethics of livestock production but don't want to become a vegetarian, consider this: It may be possible to grow meat in a petri dish. Continue reading

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First Test-Tube Hamburger Ready This Fall

The world's first “test-tube” meat, a hamburger made from a cow's stem cells, will be produced this fall, Dutch scientist Mark Post told a major science conference on Sunday. Continue reading

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Scientists using stem cells to grow hamburger in a lab

Test-tube burgers – coming soon to a restaurant near you? A researcher from the Netherlands says he expects to grow the first-ever hamburger in a lab by this fall.  The beef will made from bovine stem cells grown in a petri dish. Continue reading

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Using your heart to create the stem cells needed to heal your heart – huh?

Apparently there is a new technique called CADUCEUS; or for those of you whole don’t like hard to pronounce acronyms how about CArdiosphere-Derived a Utologous stem CElls to reverse ventricUlar dySfunction (boy talk about having to work hard to come up with an acronym eh), that at the end of its phase 1 trials is showing amazing improvements in patients suffering from heart attacks, and the resulting scarring. The technique involves taking a small chuck from the afflicted heart, refining it into stems cells, and then reintroducing those cell into the heart to reduce scar tissue. The study involved a group of 25 heart-attack patients, eight of which where the control group. Continue reading

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Stem cells used to increase bone strength

A research team led by UC Davis Health System scientists has developed a novel technique to enhance bone growth by using a molecule which, when injected into the bloodstream, directs the body's stem cells to travel to the surface of bones. Continue reading

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