(Vancouver, Canada) An improved method of converting stem cells into insulin producing cells in a shorter period of time....
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One Step Closer to Reversing Type 1 Diabetes With Stem Cells (Battle Diabetes)
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Stem Cell Agency Invests $16 million To Fight Diabetes (Imperial Valley News)
(San Francisco, CA) The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) awarded $60 million to researchers hoping to accelerate the development of a treatment for type I diabetes....
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Survival of Neural Stem Cell Grafts In Lesioned Rat Spinal Cords Enhanced By Treadmill Locomotion (JNeurosci)
(Seoul, Korea) The combination of cell transplantation and activity-based rehabilitation as therapy for spinal cord repair....
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Insurers In Japan Will Soon Offer Coverage to Cell-Cultivating Companies (Live Insurance News)
(Tokyo, Japan) The non-life insurance companies in Japan will begin to sell policies to cover the cultivation of stem cells for regenerative medicine procedures....
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Accurexa Announces License For UCSF Brain Stem Cell Device (Bay Street)
(San Francisco, CA) The University of California, San Francisco announced that it has entered into an exclusive license agreement with Accurexa, Inc for global licensing of a medical stereotactic...
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BioTime’s Cell Cure Neurosciences Ltd. Demonstrates Safety and Efficacy of OpRegen® in Animal Studies (Market Watch)
(Alameda, CA) BioTime Inc. completed a series of extensive preclinical safety and efficacy studies for its product OpRegen intended for treatment of dry age-related macular degeneration....
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Quebec Leukemia Patient Mai Duong Finds Cord Blood Donor (CTV News)
(Quebec, Canada) A patient has finally found a proper match for umbilical cord stem cells to treat her acute leukemia....
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New Stem Cell Bio Drug for Bone Regeneration To Be Released in January (Miami Today News)
(Miami, FL) An adult bone marrow isolated multi-lineage inducible cell called the Miami cell....
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Pluristem Pursues Development Strategy in Japan Where New Law Accelerates Path to Market (CNN)
(Haifa, Israel) Pluristem Therapeutics Inc. a leading developer of placenta-based cell therapy products is evaluating strategic opportunities to co-develop and commercialize cell therapy products in Japan....
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Initial Six Teams to Compete for New Organ Liver Prize (PR Web)
(Washington, DC) Global competition with a $1 million prize for the first team to create a bioengineered solution to survive without native liver function....
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