Cord Blood Transplants News
- Breakthrough Reveals Blood Vessel Cells Are Key to Growing Unlimited Amounts of Adult Stem Cells Thursday, 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 cells Thursday, 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 answers Monday, 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 News Tuesday, 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 Charity Monday, 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 Leukemia Monday, 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 ...
- Researchers find new insights into inherited retinal disease Sunday, January 17, 2010 @ 12:42PMAn international team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered new links between a common form of inherited blindness affecting children and a gene known as Abelson helper integration site-1 (AHI1). Their findings, which may lead to new therapies and improved diagnostics for retinal disease, will appear online in advance of ...
- Cord Blood America Announces Schedule for Grand Opening of Laboratory on January 22, 2010 Friday, January 15, 2010 @ 9:07AMLAS VEGAS, Jan. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cord Blood America, Inc.
- Cord Blood America Announces Schedule for Grand Opening of Laboratory on January 22, 2010 Friday, January 15, 2010 @ 5:00AMCord Blood America, Inc. , the umbilical cord blood stem cell preservation company focused on bringing the life saving potential of stem cells, a biological insurance policy, to families nationwide and internationally, announced today the schedule for its Grand Opening of its Las Vegas corporate office and laboratory beginning at Noon to 5 p.m. on Friday, January 22, 2010.
- Duke pediatric facility reunion set Saturday, May 2, 2009 @ 1:10AMDuke's Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation Family Support Program will hold its annual Rainbow of Heroes Walk from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. today at the Duke Center for Living, 3475 Erwin Road.