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  • Blood replication proteins are identified Monday, October 13, 2008 @ 2:26PM STANFORD, Calif., Oct. 13 (UPI) -- U.S. medical scientists say they have identified a family of cancer-fighting molecules that help blood stem cells in mice decide when and how to divide.
  • Shortcut Found in Stem Cell Research Monday, October 13, 2008 @ 7:27AMCuts down number of genes needed to reprogram cells.
  • Researchers say testicles source of stem cells Monday, October 13, 2008 @ 7:18AM AURORA - At the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, researchers with the Charles C. Gates Regenerative Medicine and Stem Biology Program work day in and day out to turn, among other cells, skin cells into adult stem cells.
  • Stem cell research sets off building boom Monday, October 13, 2008 @ 7:14AM$830 million in new labs being built throughout California.
  • Stem cell research sets off building boom Monday, October 13, 2008 @ 7:14AMUniversities throughout California will soon embark on an unprecedented, $830 million building blitz to create laboratories for stem cell science.
  • Lokey gives $75M to Stanford for stem cell research Monday, October 13, 2008 @ 12:41AMBusiness Wire founder Lorry I. Lokey is giving $75 million to the Stanford University School of Medicine to help build what is expected to be the nation’s largest center for stem cell research, the medical school announced.
  • Unlocking the Secrets of Atomic Nuclei Saturday, October 11, 2008 @ 9:22AM This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation.
  • Controversial Injections Examined At ASPS Annual Meeting Saturday, October 11, 2008 @ 9:06AMInjecting fat after breast reconstruction to correct implant wrinkling or dimpling may be safe and effective to improve breast shape, according to a study to be presented at the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) Plastic Surgery 2008 conference, Oct. 31 - Nov. 5, in Chicago.
  • Phase III Study Showed Rituxan In Combination With Chemotherapy Improved Progression-Free Survival In Patients With ... Friday, October 10, 2008 @ 2:23AMGenentech, Inc. and Biogen Idec today announced that a global Phase III study of Rituxan® (rituximab) in combination with fludarabine and cyclophosphamide chemotherapy met its primary endpoint of improving progression-free survival (PFS), as assessed by investigators, in patients with previously treated CD20-positive chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) compared to chemotherapy alone.
  • Nation/World briefs Friday, October 10, 2008 @ 12:14AMWASHINGTON -- Libya has started making payments into a nearly $2 billion fund to compensate the families of American victims of Libyan-linked terror attacks in the 1980s, another step in the full normalization of long-strained ties between Washington and Tripoli, the State Department said.
  • New inhibitors offer hope for breast cancer Thursday, October 9, 2008 @ 9:14PMCancer research took another step forward this month when a team of Hopkins researchers found a number of molecules that inhibit breast cancer.
  • UGA gets $8.3 million grant for stem, cancer cell study Thursday, October 9, 2008 @ 7:09PMThe University of Georgia has received a five-year, $8.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for research on stem cells and cancer cells. The UGA researchers will study the role of cell-surface sugars known as glycans. Michael Pierce, the principal investigator on the grant, said, "With this grant, our team will continue to develop state-of-the-art technology to analyze ...
  • Michigan voters to decide ballot questions on medical marijuana use, stem cell research Thursday, October 9, 2008 @ 5:45PMGENESEE COUNTY, Michigan -- Andy Heglas watched as terminal cancer, chemotherapy and radiation treatments assaulted his friend, Steve, who struggled with nausea, pain and loss of appetite. The cancer started in his lungs, or maybe his bones -- no one...
  • JapanToday: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む Thursday, October 9, 2008 @ 4:49PMA research team led by Kyoto University professor Shinya Yamanaka has succeeded in creating so-called iPS cells without using viruses in an experiment on mice ahead of rivals elsewhere in the world, in a move expected to pave the way for safer use of iPS cells in regenerative medicine, according to an article published Friday in the Internet edition of Science Magazine of the United States.
  • Intelligent Enterprise Solutions, Inc., Is Hosting qPCR Symposium USA on 10-13 November at Millbrae, CA Thursday, October 9, 2008 @ 4:33PM SANTA CLARA, Calif.----qPCR, also known as real-time PCR is very useful technology in life science industry, healthcare, diagnostics, forensics, food, air and water safety, point of care in physician offices, clinics, local labs and in bio-defense.
  • ImmunoCellular Therapeutics Announces Filing of Patent Application for a Novel Cancer Stem Cell Vaccine Technology Thursday, October 9, 2008 @ 8:21AMImmunoCellular Therapeutics, Ltd. (OTC: IMUC) (IMUC), a biotechnology company, announced the filing of a provisional U.S. patent application relating to its novel vaccine technology targeting cancer stem cells. The vaccine technology is exclusively licensed from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The patent claims are broad and include compositions of peptides for cancer immunotherapy as well as ...
  • ImmunoCellular Therapeutics Announces Filing of Patent Application for a Novel Cancer Stem Cell Vaccine Technology Thursday, October 9, 2008 @ 8:00AM LOS ANGELES----ImmunoCellular Therapeutics, Ltd. , a biotechnology company, announced the filing of a provisional U.S. patent application relating to its novel vaccine technology targeting cancer stem cells.
  • Pasta dinner will benefit Trey Love Thursday, October 9, 2008 @ 7:39AM Kimberton event focuses on boy with neuroblastoma KIMBERTON - The Trey Love Benefit, a pasta dinner, bake sale & raffle, will be held at the Kimberton Fire Company this Sunday, October 12, 2008, from 1 to 6 p.m...
  • WGL Entertainment Holdings Inc. Looks to Increase Business Opportunities Through Letter of Intent Thursday, October 9, 2008 @ 7:31AM WGL Entertainment Holdings, Inc. announced today that it plans to increase shareholder value by searching for unique business opportunities in various vertical markets. The Company recently signed a Letter of Intent with StemTroniX, Inc., an adult stem cell therapy company, enabling WGL Entertainment to expand its target market to various sectors within both industries.
  • Awry protein linked to breast cancer Thursday, October 9, 2008 @ 12:00AMSydney, Oct 9 : A developmental protein like Notch that sometimes goes awry has been linked to breast cancer, according to a new study.
  • Scientists Win Nobel for Glowing Jellyfish Protein (Update3) Wednesday, October 8, 2008 @ 5:40PMOct. 8 (Bloomberg) -- The discovery of a luminous green substance in jellyfish that redefined the way researchers uncover biological processes earned the Nobel Prize in chemistry for one Japanese and two U.S. scientists.
  • Stanford scientists pinpoint key proteins in blood stem cell replication Wednesday, October 8, 2008 @ 11:24AM( Stanford University Medical Center ) A discovery from Stanford researchers is the first to directly link the notorious members of the retinoblastoma family of proteins to the cellular production factories responsible for churning out all the blood and immune cells in the body.
  • A key mechanism regulating neural stem cell development is uncovered Wednesday, October 8, 2008 @ 11:19AM( Institut de recherches cliniques de Montreal ) A research team at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montreal, funded by the Foundation Fighting Blindness - Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, discovered a novel mechanism that regulates how neural stem cells of the retina generate the appropriate cell type at the right time during normal development. These findings, ...
  • Old age causes problems for gut cells Wednesday, October 8, 2008 @ 11:10AMIntestinal stem cells go awry in elderly flies
  • Health Highlights: Oct. 8, 2008 Wednesday, October 8, 2008 @ 11:03AM Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:
  • Phase III Study Showed Rituxan Combined With Chemotherapy Improved Progression-Free Survival In Patients With Relapsed ... Tuesday, October 7, 2008 @ 11:18AMGenentech, Inc.
  • Burnham researchers turn cancer friend into cancer foe Tuesday, October 7, 2008 @ 10:09AM( Burnham Institute ) Burnham Institute for Medical Research today announced that scientists have created a peptide that binds to Bcl-2, a protein that protects cancer cells from programmed cell death, and converts it into a cancer cell killer. The research, which was published as the featured article in the Oct. 7 edition of Cancer Cell, may lead to new cancer treatments.
  • New theory created for the start of cancer Tuesday, October 7, 2008 @ 9:07AM SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- A U.S. study using fruit flies has become the first to show in animals that losing just the end of a chromosome can lead to abnormalities, including cancer.
  • Researchers explore issues related to multiple myeloma treatment Monday, October 6, 2008 @ 4:18PMMultiple myeloma (MM) is a cancer of plasma cells that affects approximately 3 in 100,000 people each year. Although there is no cure for this disease, researchers have developed treatments that help relieve pain, control complications, and slow the progress of MM in many patients. Unfortunately, some of the most effective therapies also have toxic side effects that can pose serious health risks ...
  • Lorry Lokey to give $75M to Stanford School of Medicine Monday, October 6, 2008 @ 11:55AMBusiness Wire founder Lorry I. Lokey is giving $75 million to the Stanford University School of Medicine to help build what is expected to be the nation’s largest center for stem cell research, the medical school announced.
  • Moms dish in a new book Monday, October 6, 2008 @ 7:25AM Moms are the most fascinating group of multitasking mavens around. So when I met fellow mom/editor, Molly Rosen (a friend of a friend of a friend, and fellow mom), who was compiling a book about women in their 40s, my only question was, "How soon do you need my essay?" From tattoos to affairs, from motherhood to mayhem, from battling alcoholism and eating disorders and everything in between, ...
  • OncoMed spins first antibody into the clinic Sunday, October 5, 2008 @ 11:50PMA big cancer therapy idea may be a bigger deal for cancer patients. Now it’s time to start proving it.
  • What HIV Needs — Novel Therapeutic Targets For HIV Friday, October 3, 2008 @ 9:50AMThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Burnham Institute for Medical Research today announced 295 host cell factors that are involved in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.
  • Drive For Life Offers Bone Marrow Registry Testing Thursday, October 2, 2008 @ 6:28PMThe National Bone Marrow Registry is a place where cancer patients can go to try to find a match for a life saving bone marrow transplant. At Drive for Life XI, blood donors have the option for signing up for the registry for free by doing a cheek swab.
  • Scientists identify a molecule that coordinates the movement of cells Thursday, October 2, 2008 @ 5:42PMEven cells commute. To get from their birthplace to their work site, they sequentially attach to and detach from an elaborate track of exceptionally strong proteins known as the extracellular matrix. Now, in research to appear in the October 3 issue of Cell, scientists at Rockefeller University show that a molecule, called ACF7, helps regulate and power this movement from the inside - findings ...
  • Scientists Identify a Molecule That Coordinates the Movement of Cells Thursday, October 2, 2008 @ 5:24PMA molecule bridging two proteins that gives cells their shape and ability to migrate in a directed fashion may also shed light on how to keep cancer from spreading.
  • Scientists identify a molecule that coordinates the movement of cells Thursday, October 2, 2008 @ 4:47PMEven cells commute. To get from their birthplace to their work site, they sequentially attach to and detach from an elaborate track of exceptionally strong proteins known as the extracellular matrix. Now, in research to appear in the October 3 issue of Cell, scientists at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Rockefeller University show that a molecule, called ACF7, helps regulate and power ...
  • The role of stem cells in renewing the cornea Thursday, October 2, 2008 @ 9:43AMA group of researchers in Switzerland has published a study appearing in the Oct. 1 advance online edition of the journal Nature that shows how the cornea uses stem cells to repair itself.
  • MaxCyte and Medinet to Present at the 10th International Symposium on Dendritic Cells in Kobe, Japan Thursday, October 2, 2008 @ 9:02AM specific potency compared to lysate co-incubation in clinical manufacturing scale"
  • Well-Being In Brief: 10/02/2008 Thursday, October 2, 2008 @ 8:53AMBAY HARBOR -- The Bay Harbor Foundation has joined forces with the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute and retailers at the Village at Bay Harbor to invite the public to "Shop for A Cause" from Friday through Sunday.
  • The International Myeloma Foundation Applauds Expansion Of VELCADE(R) For Previously Untreated Patients In Europe And ... Wednesday, October 1, 2008 @ 10:07AMThe International Myeloma Foundation (IMF) - supporting research and providing education, advocacy, and support for myeloma patients, families, researchers, and physicians - today heralded the expansion of treatment options for previously untreated patients with multiple myeloma, giving patients in Canada and Europe access to drugs similar to what is available to patients in the United States.
  • Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum Aids Development of Tool To Identify Rare Cancer Cells Wednesday, October 1, 2008 @ 7:46AMAs part of a comprehensive R&D effort to develop an analytic tool to assist in accurately identifying leukemia stem cells, Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum is supporting the StemSpec R&D project at the University of Toronto with a TURBOVAC SL turbomolecular vacuum pump and a fore vacuum pump, and advising researchers about the use of the pumps.
  • Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Strikes Up to 90 Percent of Oldest Men, Can Be Life-Threatening Monday, September 29, 2008 @ 11:50AMSept. 29, 2008 – Urination problems may be passed off by many older men as just a sign of aging, but that could be a costly mistake.
  • Nigeria: Yinka Craig (1947-2008) Farewell to a Remarkable Broadcaster Monday, September 29, 2008 @ 4:27AMTuesday, September 23rd was certainly a gloomy day for the Craigs. It was the day the pillar of their family collapsed. It was the day Mr Olayinka Babasanya Craig, a veteran journalist, "father, teacher, mentor and friend" departed this world.
  • Friends, family rally around Milford boy Saturday, September 27, 2008 @ 10:47PMMILFORD -- Little Nick Branca, 6, loves Matchbox cars, dirt bikes, video games and Sponge Bob SquarePants. But the youngster faces another round of grueling treatments for the rare cancer that he
  • Giving of himself — literally Thursday, September 25, 2008 @ 7:53PMDuring an interview in his office at the Lincoln Police Station Monday afternoon, Lincoln Police Sgt Phil Gould who is in the process of donating bone marrow, responds to questions about his experiences which led to him becoming a donor.
  • Poll: Michiganders Favor Medical Marijuana Thursday, September 25, 2008 @ 4:41PMAn exclusive News 10 poll shows a majority of voters in the state would pass ballot proposals on medical marijuana and stem cell research.
  • Early pregnancy, breast cancer link mulled Thursday, September 25, 2008 @ 2:16PM HOUSTON, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have made a discovery that might explain why women having an early pregnancy also have a lower incidence of breast cancer.
  • Early pregnancy, breast cancer link mulled Thursday, September 25, 2008 @ 2:07PMU.S. scientists say they have made a discovery that might explain why women having an early pregnancy also have a lower incidence of breast cancer.Baylor College of Medicine researchers report women who have their first child before the age of 24 experience the most dramatic reduction in breast cancer risk.The relationship between age of first pregnancy and the incidence of breast cancer, ...
  • New Site Launched For Families And Scientists To Discuss Stem Cell Research (US) Thursday, September 25, 2008 @ 2:07PMSickKids Foundation has launched Connecting for Kids: Campaign 2008, a community of researchers, families and people passionate about stem cell and other innovative types of research.