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Breakthrough Reveals Blood Vessel Cells Are Key to Growing Unlimited Amounts of Adult Stem CellsThursday, March 4, 2010 @ 5:47PMIn a leap toward making stem cell therapy widely available, researchers at the Ansary Stem Cell Institute at Weill Cornell Medical College have discovered that endothelial cells, the most basic building blocks of the vascular system, produce growth factors that can grow copious amounts of adult stem cells and their progeny over the course of weeks. Until now, adult stem cell cultures would die ...

Breakthrough reveals blood vessel cells are key to growing unlimited amounts of adult stem cellsThursday, March 4, 2010 @ 4:32PM( New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center/Weill Cornell Medical College ) In a leap toward making stem cell therapy widely available, researchers have discovered that endothelial cells, the most basic building blocks of the vascular system, produce growth factors that can grow copious amounts of adult stem cells and their progeny over the course of weeks. Until now, adult ...

FDA Grants Orphan Drug Status For Quark's QPI-1002 For The Prophylaxis Of Delayed Graft Function In Kidney Transplant ...Wednesday, February 17, 2010 @ 6:30AMQuark Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a world leader in the discovery and development of RNAi-based therapeutics, announced that the US FDA has granted orphan drug designation for QPI-1002 (also referred to as "I5NP"), a synthetic siRNA targeting p53 mRNA for the prophylaxis of delayed graft function (DGF) in kidney transplant patients...

Reaching for answersMonday, February 1, 2010 @ 11:21AMPamela Hottenstein's hope outweighed the skepticism about an unproven treatment. She wired every penny of the $32,300 raised to a company in China that arranged for her teenage daughter to be injected with stem cells.

CORD:USE Cord Blood Bank Congratulates Team Member Hal Broxmeyer, Ph.D., on his Election as President of the American ...Thursday, January 28, 2010 @ 5:16PMORLANDO, Fla., Jan.

CORD:USE Cord Blood Bank Congratulates Team Member Hal Broxmeyer, Ph.D., on his Election as President of the American ...Thursday, January 28, 2010 @ 4:00PMCORD:USE Cord Blood Bank congratulates CORD:USE team member and highly esteemed advisor Hal Broxmeyer, Ph.D., on becoming the 2010 President of the American Society of Hematology .

We Have Good News, We Have Bad NewsTuesday, January 19, 2010 @ 10:00AM" BESTIES " by VERTATLE from the Seattlest Flickr pool . The bad: Our sewers are clogged with grease . Gross. Thieves stole a dozen bikes from South Seattle nonprofit Bike Works . A Lakewood fire destroyed three businesses . Seattle nonprofit World Concern reported the first confirmed death of one of its volunteers in Haiti. A Portland man was found dead in a sinkhole in his backyard. The good ...

Mia Hamm and Nomar Garciaparra Kick It Up for CharityMonday, January 18, 2010 @ 5:53PMThe celebrity couple hosted the third annual Mia Hamm & Nomar Garciaparra Celebrity Soccer Challenge on Saturday.

First Successful Use Of Expanded Umbilical-Cord Blood Units To Treat LeukemiaMonday, January 18, 2010 @ 7:38AMScientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have cleared a major technical hurdle to making umbilical-cord-blood transplants a more widely-used method for treating leukemia and other blood cancers. In a study published in the Jan.17 edition of Nature Medicine, Colleen Delaney, M.D., and colleagues describe the first use of a method to vastly expand the number of stem/progenitor cells ...