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December 29

• Regenerative Chemical Turns Muscle Cells Into Stem Cells (ScienceDaily)
• Study: Double Stem-Cell Transplant Fights Cancer (AP)

December 12

• New Method of Identifying and Isolating Stem Cells Developed (Innovations Report)

December 11

• Researchers Look To Stem Cell Therapy and Bone Marrow Transplants to Find Diabetes Cure (Science Daily)

December 08

• AnorMED Announces New Stem Cell Transplantation Drug Candidate (T-Net)

December 03

• Researchers Create Tissue-Engineered Joint From Adult Stem Cells(Space Daily) (Sun Times) (Chicago Tribune)

December 02

• U.S. May Revive Bid for U.N. Ban on Embryonic Stem Cell Research(Reuters)
• Japan: Cloning Panel at Odds Over Embryonic Stem Cells(The Japan Times)

November 25

• Massachusetts Legislature Drops Stem Cell Support(Boston Globe)

November 24

• MIT Technique To Produce Large Numbers Of Adult Stem Cells(MIT News)

November 17

• Feeling Restored After Paralysis with Non-Embryonic Stem Cells(BBC)

November 14

• Juvenile Diabetes Cured in Lab Mice(The Boston Globe) (Health Day)
• Fetal Cell Grafts Not Effective in Reversing Parkinson’s Damage(Doctor’s Guide)
• Ireland: Bishops Warn on Stem-Cell Research (ireland.com)

November 12

• AP Issues Correction On Stem Cell Story(AP)

November 11

• Pope Condemns Stem Cell Research(AP)
• Efficient Cloning Process Still Eludes Scientists(AP)
• Experts Criticize Approved Stem Cells(AP)

November 06

• Seeding a Heart with Healing Cells(Washington Post)

November 05

• Singapore: Pro-Lifers to Meet Amid Push for Embryonic Research(CNS News)

October 23

• New Adult Stem-Cell Findings Could Help Cancer Patients(Reuters) (Knight Ridder)
• Gene May be Trigger to Arouse Adult Stem-Cell Renewal(Chicago Tribune)

October 14

• Patient’s Own Stem Cells Help Heal Damaged Heart(Health Day)

October 09

• Adult Stem Cells Offering Healthier Hearts(Sydney Morning Herald)

September 17

• U of Florida Builds Upon Adult Stem-Cell Progress(Gainesville Sun)
• Muscle Stem Cells May Cure Incontinence(Taipei Times)
• Sorting Out Epidermal Stem Cells(The Scientist)

September 11

• Men Wanted-Must Have Good Stem Cells(Telegraph)

September 8

• Vegas Teen Hopes Own Stem Cells Will Combat His Disease(Review Journal)

September 2

• Stem Cells Extracted from Patients’ Own Bone Marrow Used to Rebuild Heart Tissue(Reuters)

September 1

• Research Shows Body’s Naturally Occurring Stem Cells can Help Repair Hearts(Akron Beacon Journal)

August 28

• Treatment Setback for Parkinson’s Patients (Health Day)

August 18

• Scientists Doubt Chinese Claim of Rabbit-Human Clone (NewsMax)

August 13

• China: Blood Stem Cells Save Student (China Daily)

August 11

• Study: Bone Marrow Cells Can Repair Damaged Heart (Reuters)
  (New Scientist) (BBC) (HealthDay) (Wired) (Nature Medicine)
• Pennsylvania: Insurance Agrees to Cover $500,000 for Stem Cell Transplant (The Vindicator)
• Illinois: Stem Cell Transplant Helps Toddler Beat the Odds (Belleville News-Democrat)
• Alaska: Stem Cell Testing Offered at Blood Drive (Kenai Peninsula Online)

August 7

• First Consumer Education Campaign About Banking Cord Blood to Be Launched (PRNewswire)

• Cord Blood as a “Safety Deposit” (Knight Ridder News)

August 4

• Why Some Stem Cells Die in Developing Brain (HealthDay)
• Trounson Quits Stem-Cell Centre (The Australian)

July 31

• New Mechanism for Gene Silencing Identified (EurekAlert!)

July 30

• Congressman Sponsors Cord Blood Legislation (Focus on the Family)

July 28

• Louisiana: Woman Hopes Placental Stem Cells Will Help Her Brother (AP)

July 25

• Illinois: Umbilical Cord Blood Expands Transplant Options(Daily Illini)

July 22

• More Storing Umbilical Cord Blood(Philadelphia Inquirer)

July 18

• Immune “Invisibility” of Brain Stem Cells Proven(New Scientist)

July 14

• Researchers Find Mechanism That May Determine Early Blood Cell Fate(EurekAlert!)
• Brain Stem Cells Are Not Rejected When Transplanted(Science Blog) (EurekAlert!)

July 10

• EU Stem Cell Research Plan Faces Opposition(AP) (BBC)
• Chemotherapy Plus Stem-Cell Transplantation May Reduce Relapse of High-Risk Breast Cancer(Doctor’s Guide)
• Youth, HLA-Identical Donors Most Important in Stem Cell Transplantation for Sickle-Cell Anaemia(Doctor’s Guide)

July 7

• Bone Marrow Holds Promise in Treatment of MS(Hartford Courant)
• Stem-Like Cells from Peripheral Blood Restore Function in Rats with Severe Stroke(EurekAlert!)
• EU to Adopt Stem Cell Research Rules This Week(Reuters)

June 27

• Ottawa MDs Find Muscles Repair “Switch” In Adult Stem Cells(Ottawa Citizen)
• Cord Stem Cell Lab Is UK First(Newsquest)

June 25

• Tulane Gets Grant for Adult Stem Cell Center(AP) (The Advocate) (Times-Picayune)

June 24

• New Hope for Children with Eye Tumors Using Own Stem Cells(EurekAlert!) (Health Newswire) (HealthDayNews)

June 23

• Stem Cells Coax Body to Heal Itself(Ottawa Citizen)

June 13

• Teen’s Heart Doing Better After Stem Cell Therapy(Reuters Health)
• New Stem Cell Surgery on Hold(Detroit News)
• Study: Umbilical Cord Stem Cells Benefit Rodents with ALS, Spinal Cord Injury(Science Blog) (Business Wire)
• Alternatives to Human Stem Cells Promoted(AP)

June 10

• Bone Marrow Stem Cell Find Spurs Therapy Hopes(AFP) (Canadian Press)

June 6

• Faster Method for Growing Adult Stem Cells(EurekAlert!)

June 4

• Surgeons to Test Stem Cells in Damaged Heart Tissue(Business Courier)

June 3

• Pig Cell Swap Hope for Diabetics(Daily Telegraph)

June 2

• Storing Stem Cells(Valley Morning Star)

May 30

• Scientists Discover ‘Master Gene'(Washington Post) (BBC) (New Scientist)

May 29

• Scientists Regenerate Cell Key to Hearing(AP)

May 18

• Anti-Abortion Group Plans ‘Campus’: Stem Cells, Cloning Among Topics to Be Studied at Stanford(Washington Post)

May 17

• Greater Potential of Adult Stem Cells Revealed(New Scientist)

May 15

• Michigan House Committee Votes to Ban Embryonic Stem Cell Imports(AP)
• Gene Therapy Offers Ray of Hope for the Blind(The Mercury)
• Stem Cells: A Gene for ‘Stemness'(Nature)
• Cells May One Day Help Treat Damaged Livers(Science Daily)
• Americans Support Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Oppose Cloning(Chicago Sun-Times)

May 12

• Mothers Giving Birth Donate Record Numbers of Umbilical Cord Bloods(Health News Digest)

May 9

• Fresh Genes Offer New Lease of Life, Alternative to Stem Cell Therapy(Sydney Morning Herald)

May 8

• Study Backs Aggressive Bone Cancer Treatment(AP) (New England Journal of Medicine) (HealthScoutNews) (Reuters)

May 7

• Stem Cell Therapies: Time to Step Back or Forge Ahead?(Genome News Network)

May 6

• Amyloidosis Now Treatable with Stem Cells(Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

May 5

• Cure for Baldness a Step Close(The New Zealand Herald)
• MA Legislature Debates Measure to Encourage Stem Cell Research (BostonGlobe) (WCVB-Boston)
• Source for Stem Cells Has Its Foes(AP)

May 4

• Cancer Said Side Effect of Gene Therapy(AP)

May 1

• European Parliament Bans Stem Cell Research(Nature)
• St. Jude Researchers Reverse Blood Diseases Using Genetically Modified
  Stem Cells(St.
  Jude) (DataMonitor)

April 29

• Duke Scientists Grow New Stem Cells in Blood by Manipulating Molecular Pathway(Duke University)
• Marrow Stem Cells to Take Heat Off Embryos(TheStar) (The Independent)

April 28

• Stanford Researchers Isolate Protein Needed For Stem Cell Maintenance(Stanford University Medical Center) (EurekAlert!) (AP)
• Adult Progenitor Stem Cell Discovery Unveiled(Minnesota Daily) (United Press International)

April 25

• Adult Stem Cells Shown to Develop into All Brain Cell Types(University
• Marine Donates Stem Cells to Brother with Cancer(AP)

April 24

• Successful Implantation of Neuralo Stem Cells For a Patient with Brain Injury(China Medical Tribune)
• Stem Cell Firm Launches with $1M Financing(Ottawa Business Journal)

April 22

• Baby Teeth Found Source of Stem Cells(United Press International) (Reuters) (New Scientist) (National Institutes of Health) (AFP)
• Study: Own Stem Cells Help Heart(Health34) (American Heart Association) (The Guardian) (Reuters) (BBC) (DeHavilland) (The Independent) (HealthScoutNews)

April 21

• Gene Therapy “Cured” Diabetes in Mice(United Press International) (The Guardian) (Baylor College of Medicine)

April 17

• Stem Cells Help Repair Damage from MS(AP) (Nature) (New Scientist) (Reuters) (Cordis) (The Australian)

April 15

• Adult Stem Cell Transplants Offer New Hope in Some Cases of Blindness(New York Times)
• Studies Indicate Heart Can Repair Itself(HealthScoutNews) (Health34)

April 14

• Cancer Patient to Receive Stem Cell Transplant(Coventry Courier)
• Illinois: Law Would Make Women Aware of Donating Umbilical Cord Blood(Daily Journal)

April 11

• UK: EU Parliament Vote to Ban Embryonic Stem Cell Research(BBC) (DeHavilland) (AP) (Reuters) (Cybercast News Service) (Seattle Times) (Health Newswire) (EurActiv)
• Arizona Woman Has First Stem Cell Switch to Fight MS(Tucson Citizen)
• Cord Stem Cells Hailed as Advance(The Age)

April 10

• Study: Stem Cell Transplant Should Be Tried First With Multiple Myeloma(HealthScout News)

April 9

• Nebraska: Cloning, Stem Cell and Tissue Research Bills Advance to Legislative Floor(Lincoln Journal Star)

April 8

• Promising Results in Parkinson’s Trial Using Hormone and Not Stem Cells(New York Times)

April 7

• Florida: FAU Focuses on Adult Stem Cell Research (Sun-Sentinel)
• UIC Stem Cell Work Gains Firm’s Support (Chicago Tribune)

April 3

• Arizona: Stem-Cell Therapy to Be Tried on MS(Arizona Daily Star)
• Stem Cells from Umbilical Cords Could Speed Stroke Recovery, Study Finds(St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

April 2

• Heart Patients do Best with Both Drugs and Devices(Reuters)
• Rat Study: Treating Strokes with Cord Blood Cells Holds Promise(St. Louis U. Health Sciences Center)

April 1

• Stem Cells Contribute to Tissue Regeneration in Mice with ALS(HealthScout) (EurekAlert!) (American Academy of Neurology)

March 31

• Stem Cell Finds Change Everything(Wired) (Scripps Howard) (Nature News Service)
• EU Curbs Threaten British Stem Cell Research(The Times)

March 28

• Couples Must Choose Destiny for Frozen Embryos with Federal Ban in Mind(Seattle Times)

March 27

• Australia: No Deal on Export Embryos(Sydney Morning Herald) (The Age)

March 26

• Australia: Legal Embryo Stem Cell Research One Step Closer in Victoria(Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

March 25

• Stem Cells Repair Brain after Stroke(The Ottawa Citizen)

March 24

• Further Studies Needed to Understand Bone Marrow to Liver Cell Transformations(Nature)(Wired) (Scripps Howard) (Nature News Service) (HealthScout)

March 17

• Mouth Cells Treat Eyes(BBC)

March 15

• Bone Marrow Found to Have Cells to Repair the Pancreas(The New York Times)

March 14

• UK: House of Lords Approves Stem Cell Cloning(AP) (BBC) (Guardian) (NDTV) (HMG) (icHuddersfield)

March 13

• Switzerland: Parliament Backs Stem Cell Research(Swiss Info)

March 10

• Adult Brain Could Be Stem Cell Source(UPI) (Nature)
• Nail-Gun Shooting Victim Home after Pioneering Stem Cell Treatment(Flint Journal)
• Study Reports Progress Using Adult Stem Cells to Generate Heart Valve Tissue in Sheep(Heart Center)

March 6

• Babies’ First Act Of Charity May Resolve Stem-Cell Moral Dilemma (Georgia Bulletin)
• Doctors Use Non-Embryonic Stem Cells in Heart Repair(AP) (Reuters Health) (UPI) (Wired) (NY Times) (Scotsman) (CBS) (LA Times) (ABC) (Macomb Daily)

March 5

• Stem Cell Surprise: Blood Cells form Liver, Nerve Cells(Science News)
• Teen 1^st in World to Get Experimental Stem Cell Heart Treatment(Beaumont Hospitals)

March 4

• Tests of Cell Transplants Offer Hope To Diabetics(Newsday)

February 25

• Cells in Blood May Morph Into Liver, Nerve Cells(Reuters) (Argonne National Laboratory) (PNAS) (Science News Online)
• London: Heart Attack Victims to Receive Own Stem Cells(Reuters Health)

February 24

• Heart Attack Victims to Get Stem Cell Trial(Reuters)
• Canada: ‘Surplus’ Embryos? No Such Thing(National Post)

February 21

• Florida Senate President Desires to Create Stem Cell Research Lab for Legacy(St. Petersburg Times)

February 19

• Adult Stem Cells May Help Organ Transplant(Reuters)
• Adult Stem Cell Research Is Preferable to Cloning(Washington Post)

February 17

• Experts Hail Tissue-Printing Work of S.C. Scientists(Charleston Post Courier)

February 12

• Bone Marrow Stem Cells Can Create New Neurons(BioMedNet.com) (National Academy of Sciences), (Science)

February 11

• New Jersey: Stem-Cell Research Bill Withdrawn(CNS News) (Philadelphia Inquirer) (Gannett)

February 7

• Adult Stem Cells Mend Human Hearts(New Scientist) Report: (Journal of the American College of Cardiologist)
• IVF Donors ‘Risking Their Health'(The Guardian)

February 1

• Stem/Progenitor Cells Derived from Adult Tissues: Potential for the Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus(American Journal of Physiology, Endocrinology and Metabolism)

January 31

• Scientists Take Step to Grow Organs(AP)
• Stem Cell Research: Through the Nose(The Courier-Journal)

January 30

• Australia: Stem Cell Research Led by the Nose(The Age)

January 29

• ‘Superman’ Reeve Says Stem Cell Research Inevitable(Reuters)

January 28

• Stem Cells Not the Only Option, Spinal Forum Told (ABC News)

January 24

• Liver Converted to Pancreas(Nature)
• Reeve Says Spinal Repair Human Trials Under Way(Reuters)
• Key Questions Loom Over Effort to Energize Research(Science)

January 22

• Tissue Engineers Create New Heart Stents(UPI)

January 21

• Australia: MS Damage Repaired by Stem Cells(BBC) (New Scientist) (Sydney Morning Herald)
• Bone Marrow Stem Cells Could Repair Brain Damage(BBC) (PNAS Online)

January 17

• Study Shows Umbilical Cord Matrix New Rich Source of Stem Cells(LifeSite.net) Study: (stemcells.org)

January 8

• First Patent Granted for Transplantation of Human Neural Stem Cells(PR Newswire)

January 7

• Children at Risk After Stem Cell Transplant(Reuters)

January 6

• Jailed Connecticut Man Donates Stem Cells(AP)

January 3

• Germany: Bone Marrow Stem Cells May Regenerate Heart Tissue: Study(ABC News) (BBC) (Ananova)

January 2

• World Scientists To Collaborate On Stem Cell Project(AP) (KYW News)

January 1

• Embryonic Stem Cells Injected Into the Mouse Knee Joint Form Teratomas and Subsequently Destroy the Joint(Rheumatology)

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