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Beike Biotech to open new stem cell storage facility in China Pharmaceutical Business Review Fri, 20 Jun 2008 6:38 PM PDT Shenzhen Beike Biotechnology has started outfitting its 21,500 square foot comprehensive medical stem cell storage and processing facility in eastern China. Stem Cell Education Web Site Stemcellchannel.com.au Breaks New Ground for Students Centre Daily Times Fri, 20 Jun 2008 7:44 AM PDT A world-first stem cell education web site, which includes clear written and video explanation of the complex science and allows students to ask direct questions of leading stem cell scientists, was launched today by the Premier of Victoria, John Brumby, at the BIO International Convention. Australian Stem Cell Research Forges Ahead Medical News Today Fri, 20 Jun 2008 6:17 AM PDT Australian stem cell scientists will build on the recent discovery that stem cells can be made from skin cells in a new collaborative research program, Victorian Innovation Minister Gavin Jennings and NSW Minister for Science and Medical Research Verity Firth announced at the BIO International Convention. Predicting the risk of a common fungal infection after stem cell transplantation PhysOrg Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:53 PM PDT In silico genetic analysis in mice has led to the discovery of a gene affecting susceptibility to a severe fungal infection in transplant recipients. In a study published June 20th in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics, investigators from Duke University Medical Center, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Roche Palo Alto, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and ... Korean researchers claim to clone rare dogs Dallas Morning News Fri, 20 Jun 2008 9:46 AM PDT SEOUL — A South Korean team led by disgraced stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk said Thursday it has created 17 clones of an endangered dog breed popular in China. Cost-benefits health trend stirs debate Fort Wayne Journal Gazette Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:10 AM PDT WASHINGTON – Medical researchers and politicians are tiptoeing into an area of health care that makes some Americans uncomfortable, even angry, and it has nothing to do with such hot-button issues as cloning and stem-cell research. Bishops urge examination of medical research El Paso Times Fri, 20 Jun 2008 8:24 AM PDT ORLANDO, Fla. -- The nation's Roman Catholic bishops issued a document June 13 warning against what they consider the moral dangers of embryonic stem-cell research, saying it treats human beings as commodities and reduces procreation to a manufacturing process. Scientist: Hybrid embryos produced quickly Moldova.org Fri, 20 Jun 2008 1:33 PM PDT British scientists say they have produced nearly 300 hybrid embryos since they began inserting human DNA into cow eggs in January.Project leader Lyle Armstrong told the BIO biotechnology conference in San Diego the scientists found producing embryos for stem cell research in their controversial project was easier than expected, the Financial Times reported Friday.Armstrong told the Financial ... European Research Aimed At Retaining Its Competitive Edge In The Field Of 'Regenerative Medicine' Medical News Today Fri, 20 Jun 2008 6:18 AM PDT 14 Member Organisations* of the European Science Foundation have launched a key initiative to keep Europe at the forefront of regenerative medicine; broadly defined as the development of stem cell therapies to restore lost, damaged, or ageing cells and tissues in the human body.Stem cells are the body's 'master cells' that have not yet been programmed to perform a specific function.

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