When federal funding regulations created limitations on human embryonic stem cell research, several states created their own funding programs. A new study analyzed stem cell funding programs in four states that provided their ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 18, 2015
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Faced with a new federal policy that opens the door for more embryonic stem cell research, conservatives have geared up for a political battle at the national and state level that goes to the core of their beliefs about the ...
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Mar 16, 2009
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One major challenge in stem cell research has been to reprogram differentiated cells to a totipotent state. Researchers from RIKEN in Japan have identified a duo of histone proteins that dramatically enhance the generation ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 6, 2014
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Planarians are known as masters of regeneration: they can re-build any part of their bodies after amputation. This ability relies on a large number of pluripotent stem cells. To further investigate the mechanisms that enable ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 5, 2014
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The study, which focuses on the process by which these cells renew and increase in number, could help research to find new treatments.
Cell & Microbiology
May 2, 2013
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The United States government's decision last year to lift restrictions on federally-funded stem cell research has helped the nation's stem-cell researchers concentrate on science, but limitations remain - even under the new ...
Biotechnology
Feb 21, 2010
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A new study, published today in the journal Applied Materials & Interfaces, has found a new method for growing human embryonic stem cells, that doesn't rely on supporting human or animal cells.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 5, 2014
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The promise of embryonic stem cell research has been thwarted by an inability to answer a simple question: How do you know a good stem cell from a bad one?
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 5, 2014
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(AP) -- The Vatican is pushing for research of adult stem cells as an alternative to the use of embryonic stem cells, which the Catholic Church opposes because it maintains that the destruction of the embryo amounts to the ...
Biotechnology
Apr 23, 2010
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A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that the behaviour of stem cells in plants and animals is surprisingly similar. The researchers were able to produce mathematical equations that reveal very small differences ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 12, 2017
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