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Gentler chemotherapy before stem cell transplant causes long-term remission of follicular lymphoma EurekAlert! Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:49 AM PST ATLANTA - Treating relapsed follicular lymphoma patients with a milder chemotherapy regimen before they receive a blood stem cell transplant from a donor resulted in long-term complete remission for 45 of 47 patients in a clinical trial, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report at the 49th annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology. Stem-cell talk canceled tonight The Kansas City Star Mon, 10 Dec 2007 3:06 PM PST A Kansans for Life program on stem cell research, scheduled for tonight at Cure of Ars Catholic Church in Leawood, has been postponed to 7 p.m. Thursday . Improprieties revealed at California Stem Cell Institute News-Medical-Net Mon, 10 Dec 2007 2:15 PM PST More apparent conflict of interest violations in applications for research grants in California's $6 billion stem cell program were revealed and the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) called for all the tainted applications to be rejected. A*STAR's Dr Colman appointed director of top UK uni's stem cell centre Channel NewsAsia via Yahoo! Singapore News Mon, 10 Dec 2007 3:28 AM PST SINGAPORE: The head of A*STAR's Singapore Stem Cell Consortium, Dr Alan Colman, has been appointed Chair of Regenerative Medicine and Director of the Stem Cell Centre at King's College London. Nizam Institute waiting for ICMR guidelines to resume stem cell therapy PharmaBiz Mon, 10 Dec 2007 1:32 AM PST The Hyderabad-based reputed Nizam Institute of Medical sciences (NIMS) is awaiting the announcement of guidelines from the Union government to resume stem cell therapy for heart patients. The NIMS had to stop the stem cell therapy following clamours about "some ethical issues" by certain groups. Man who helped start stem cell war may end it International Herald Tribune Mon, 10 Dec 2007 9:28 AM PST James Thomson's laboratory reported a way to turn ordinary human skin cells into what appear to be embryonic stem cells, without using a human embryo, as his laboratory had first done in 1998. A stem cell breakthrough, without embryos International Herald Tribune Mon, 10 Dec 2007 8:14 AM PST Turning human skin cells into what appear to be embryonic stem cells without having to make or destroy an embryo could quell an ethical debate. Skip tooth fairy, send baby teeth to stem cell bank The Japan Times Mon, 10 Dec 2007 1:20 PM PST NAGOYA (Kyodo) Nagoya University researchers have formed a primary tooth bank to use tooth stem cells in regenerative medicine and to enable their use in bone fracture and other treatments. Read more ... GlaxoSmithKline And OncoMed Pharmaceuticals Form Strategic Alliance To Develop Cancer Stem Cell Antibody Therapeutics BioresearchOnline Mon, 10 Dec 2007 1:07 PM PST GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and OncoMed Pharmaceuticals (OncoMed) today announced a worldwide strategic alliance to discover, develop and market novel antibody therapeutics to target cancer stem cells which are believed to play a key role in the establishment, metastasis and recurrence of cancer. The alliance with GSK will be conducted through its Center of Excellence for External Drug Discovery (CEEDD) OncoMed, GlaxoSmithKline in cancer stem cell alliance Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal Mon, 10 Dec 2007 7:32 AM PST GlaxoSmithKline Ltd. and OncoMed Pharmaceuticals Inc. said Monday they entered a strategic alliance to target cancer stem cells that could earn OncoMed milestone payments up to $1.4 billion.

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