Adult Stem Cell Doc Blog

Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.) on Tuesday announced that he would leave the Republican Party to join the Democrats, a move that could decrease the GOP's ability to mount successful filibusters against some items on the Democratic agenda, such as health care reform, the New York Times reports (Hulse/Nagourney, New York Times, 4/29).

Springer Science+Business Media has launched http://www.stemcellgateway.net, a one-stop destination resource designed to strengthen the stem cell community and foster the exchange of information among researchers in this field.

Scientists at The University of Nottingham are investigating whether stem cell markers could have a role to play in speeding up wound healing in patients suffering from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).