Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Cancer Research UK scientists have discovered for the first time that stem cells could be the root cause of bowel cancer, according to a study published in Nature* today (Wednesday). Scientists at Cancer Research UK's Beatson Institute for Cancer Research in Glasgow, Cardiff University and the Hubrecht Institute in the Netherlands - isolated stem cells in the bowels of mice and 'knocked out' a gene called APC from them.
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Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Medistem Inc. (OTCBB: MEDS) announced today it has filed an Investigational New Drug (IND) Application with the United States Food and Drug Administration to undertake clinical studies using its proprietary endometrial regenerative cells (ERC) in patients with an advanced form of peripheral artery disease termed "critical limb ischemia.
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Monday, December 29th, 2008
At the 16th Annual World Congress on Anti-Aging Medicine & Regenerative Biomedical Technologies in Las Vegas, Zannos Grekos, MD, director of Cardiac and Vascular Disease for Regenocyte Therapeutic, addressed physicians from around the world with a presentation on patients treated with pre-engineered Adult Stem Cells. In the presentation, Grekos showed the successful engraftment of stem cells into damaged organs and subsequent regeneration of tissue.
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