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Cord blood stem cells help meet minority marrow needs

Leukemias are cancers of the cells that give rise to white blood cells.  For example in myeloid leukemias the cells…

Butyrate Greatly Enhances Derivation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells by Promoting Epigenetic Remodeling and the Expression of Pluripotency-Associated Genes

Generation of inducible pluripotent stem cells (iPS) offers the possibility of creating patient-specific stem cells with embryonic stem cell therapeutic…

Fat May Serve a Purpose in Stem Cell Research

Scientist Dr. Joseph Wu at the Stanford University School of Medicine has recently published a new and improved method to…

Adult Stem Cells Healing Hearts

Adult stem cells are being more and more used in patients to achieve effects.  In the treatment of patients with…

Stem Cells for HIV?

HIV infection causes its devastating effects on patients by destruction of the CD4 T helper cell and macrophage component of…

Heart Failure Recovery Boosted by Stem Cells

Dying Legs Treated with Human Stem Cells

With the hope of growing small blood vessels and restoring circulation in the legs, two patients were the first to…

Heart Treatment with iPS Cells – Joint Japanese Research

In order to treat heart disease, induced pluripotent stem cells or iPS cells will be used in a joint study…

Japanese Stem Cell Research Surges

With the intent of guiding Japan back to leadership in the field of biotechnology, the Koizumi government adopted a new…