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Shaquille O’Neal Joins “Be The Match” Campaign
09 March 2010
For the “Do Something Big” campaign, Shaquille O’Neal will ask Americans to “Be the one to save a life.” Three public service announcements will start airing on television and the Internet starting this month. “There’s nothing bigger than life – not when someone you love is fighting to live,” O’Neal said. “That’s why I’m letting people [...]
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Where to Donate Cord Blood In California
05 March 2010
The list below shows hospitals in California that actively collect cord blood for public cord blood banks that are part of the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) Network of banks. Long Beach Memorial Center Long Beach, CA StemCyte International Cord Blood Center http://www.stemcyte.com White Memorial Medical Center Los Angeles, CA StemCyte International Cord Blood Center http://www.stemcyte.com Alta Bates Summit Medical Center Oakland, CA [...]
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StemCyte Opens First Stem Cell Bank In India
26 February 2010
One of the world’s prominent cord blood banks and biotherapies companies, StemCyte Inc. USA, recently announced that it will be opening its first umbilical cord blood stem cell banking facility at Apollo Hospital in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar district. It will be the first cord blood bank facility in India which shall be used both for public and [...]
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Stem Cell Trial For Cerebral Palsy Begins
15 February 2010
American researchers are starting a clinical trial to determine whether stem cells from umbilical cord blood can help children with cerebral palsy. The researchers, who are working at the Medical College of Georgia, said their study represents the first such U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved clinical trial. The study will include 40 children age [...]
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Scientists Can Grow Bacon From Stem Cells
18 January 2010
Well, at least they are headed in that direction. To make meat production more humane, and to help slow global warming due to livestock over-farming, scientists from Denmark have developed a way to grow edible meat in the lab, from the stem cells of pigs. The petrie dish meat doesn’t yet taste or look very [...]
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LifeShare Blood Centers Promoting Cord Blood Collection
12 January 2010
LifeShare Blood Centers will continue promoting a cord blood bank pilot program and step up efforts to register bone marrow donors this year. LifeShare partnered with Women’s Hospital in Baton Rouge, where 14% of all Louisiana babies are born, in 2008 for the pilot program. Umbilical cords contain stem cells that can be used in transplants [...]
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