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U. receives grant for stem cell research The Daily Targum Mon, 01 Sep 2008 8:16 PM PDT Stem cell research at the University recently received a boost that will not only aid in the advancement of the field, but also train a group of students to lobby for the cause. The University received a $3.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Graduate Education and Research Trainee Program to be used for stem cell research among graduate students in fields ... Singapore researchers develop new stem cell therapy for heart disease Channel NewsAsia via Yahoo! Singapore News Mon, 01 Sep 2008 9:02 AM PDT SINGAPORE: Researchers at Singapore's National Heart Centre have successfully used adult stem cells to treat cardiac disease in lab rats by changing the stem cells into heart—like cells. San Bruno company banking on cord blood San Francisco Chronicle Mon, 01 Sep 2008 5:29 PM PDT Wendy and Steve Grant have made a $100 million business out of something that everyone is born with and is almost always thrown away: stem-cell rich blood from umbilical cords. The Los Altos Hills couple, along with Wendy Grant's father Tom Moore, founded... A step toward restoring hearing Wisconsin State Journal Mon, 01 Sep 2008 5:50 PM PDT A newly arrived UW researcher and colleagues at two other universities published stem-cell research results this week based on the successful growth of sound-signal-sending hair genes in the ears of lab mice, a process that could eventually be used to restore hearing to deaf people. The article in Nature describes a regeneration process — in which functional hair gene cells are introduced into ... A 'medical Katrina' looms in our health care future BizJournals Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:58 PM PDT Ominous clouds are on our health care horizon. Focusing only on spectacular technologies such local stem-cell breakthroughs, mechanical hearts and hand and face transplants risks missing warnings of health care infrastructure breakdown and the painful consequences. CIRM Applauds The Reprogramming Of Pancreas Cells To Produce Insulin Medical News Today Mon, 01 Sep 2008 3:08 AM PDT The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the state stem cell agency, issued the following statement regarding the research published in Nature by a team from Harvard that showed it is possible to take a type of adult pancreas cell that doesn't normally produce insulin and reprogram them to produce insulin.

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