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 [...]

Researchers at the AIDS Institute at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) have recently announced that they have found a type of stem cells that could fight against HIV. The cells can be activated so that they immediately start looking for and attacking all cells that have been infected with the HIV retrovirus. [...]

French scientists have found a way to create human skin rapidly from stem cells, which could potentially save the lives of many burns victims who are vulnerable to infection and currently must wait weeks for a skin graft. They made the breakthrough by creating a patch of human skin on a mouse’s back using stem [...]

A research team from Duke University has released a report that says unrelated umbilical cord blood transplants for myelodysplastic syndrome in children result in a three-year event-free survival of 61%. The details of this study appeared in the August 2009 issue of Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation.
The source of stems cells is usually from [...]

Umbilical cord blood could provide the raw material needed to repair the hearts of thousands of babies born defective heart valves, according to cardiologists at the University Hospital of Munich. Those scientists say they are 5 to 7 years away from transplanting new heart valves into children with heart defects, made from the [...]

Vision loss often occurs when corneal epithelial cells are lost or do not regenerate fast enough. In data presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research, Dr. David Harris demonstrated that cord blood stem cells can differentiate into these cells and form a cell sheet that is indistinguishable from corneal [...]

New York State is going to commit to invest $20.4 million in stem cell research.
New York state Health Commissioner Richard Daines, who is also the chair of the Empire State Stem Cell Board, said the funding would “ensure the best and the brightest new stem cell investigators conduct their research in New York state.”
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Indianapolis researchers are developing technology which could alleviate negative side effects during stem cell transplants for cancer patients. General BioTechnology’s device pumps bone marrow stem cells through a specially designed tube. The fiber filled tube gradually filters the Dimethyl Sulfoxide preservative from the bone marrow transplant while still maintaining the cell’s efficacy. DMSO is a [...]

Researchers at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have discovered that a population of breast cells called luminal progenitor cells are likely to be responsible for breast cancers that develop in women carrying mutations in the gene BRCA1. Their finding represents a major shift in the way scientists think breast cancer develops.
A team led by [...]

Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California have been awarded $2.9 million in grants from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to support research into stem cell discoveries that will provide the basic foundation for future therapies.
The Basic Biology Awards received formal approval on Aug. 20 from the Independent [...]