Aastrom Biosciences Says It Uses Adult Stem Cells
302871
Aastrom Biosciences Inc. on Monday said it uses adult, not embryonic, stem cells to produce cells that are being tested to see if they can repair severe bone fractures.
235049
In a leap forward for stem cell research, three independent teams of scientists reported Wednesday that they have produced the equivalent of embryonic stem cells in mice using skin cells without the controversial destruction of embryos.
551009
NEW YORK  - Transplanting stem cells from a  healthy woman to her sister with severe rheumatoid arthritis  apparently cured the disease, researchers report in the journal  Arthritis & Rheumatism.
606125
University of Toronto researchers have identified cells in an adult mouse pancreas capable of generating insulin-producing beta cells.
37355
A new way to manipulate human embryonic stem cells offers hope of a treatment for muscular dystrophies.
528138
Stem Cell Sciences, an Australian biotechnology company which recently moved its headquarters to Edinburgh, Scotland, is offering scientists worldwide, unconditional access to a new embryonic stem-cell line.
342210
NEW YORK  - Patients with heart failure  experienced a marked improvement after being given an injection  of their own stem cells, investigators reported today at the  Annual Meeting of the Society for Thoracic Surgery in Tampa,  Florida.
44941
A team at Toronto University found immature cells in the pancreas of adult mice that were able to develop into cells that produce insulin.
550976
Researchers are using human embryonic stem cells to determine the toxicity of potential pharmaceuticals.
174965
People with cystic fibrosis could be treated with genetically tweaked versions of their own stem cells. Researchers say that for the first time they have shown that human bone marrow-derived adult stem cells
430550
Researchers in Wisconsin and Japan said yesterday that they have turned ordinary human skin cells into what are effectively embryonic stem cells without using embryos or women's eggs -- the previously essential ingredients that have embroiled the medically promising field in a nearly decade-long ...
480772
Biotech company buys itself a bigger future.
593216
A technique would let scientists use a patientâs skin cell to generate new heart, liver or kidney cells that might be transplantable.
634617
An Aug. 23 story by The Associated Press about a biotech company finding a new way of making stem cells carried an ambiguous headline that said: "Biotech firm creates stem cells without destroying human embryos, but doesn't end debate."
542820
Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have found a fundamental mechanism used by embryonic stem cells to assure that genetically damaged stem cells do not divide and pass along the damage to daughter stem cells.
484409
London/La Jolla (pts) - Scientists at London&#39;s Hammersmith Hospital http://www.hhnt.org are testing the use of adult stem cells, which could reverse cirrhosis of the liver.
736623
Scientists at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), have induced human insulin-producing cells of the pancreas to revert to islet precursor cells.