]> http://www.healthedia.com/popular/articles/stem-cell-research Stem Cell Research - Today's Popular Articles at http://www.healthedia.com en http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/mh-today/885551?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 Uh, no.What you're thinking about may be the news out of Great Britain, where government regulators gave the go-ahead to scientists who want to merge human cells with animal eggs in hopes of producing a source of stem cells.The embryos would be destr... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:20:40 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/mh-today/885551?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/884249?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 Professor Doris Taylor and his team at the University of Minneapolis have done the impossible. They have successfully built a beating heart in the lab, an organ potentially suitable for autologous transplants, at least for rats and pigs in whom the... Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:55:34 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/884249?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/in-the-pipeline/883413?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 I ve got a big post ready to go on the subject of money and the drug industry, but since I figure everyone has a political hangover this morning, I ll wait until tomorrow to put that one up. I was up in New Hampshire last weekend with my wife and... Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:21:02 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/in-the-pipeline/883413?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/wsjcom-health-blog/882653?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 President Bush s 2001 rule limiting federally funded embryonic stem cell research gave rise to an archipelago of labs sustained without federal money.In his latest WSJ column, Robert Lee Hotz writes that those labs are pushing forward with their wo... Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:34:56 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/wsjcom-health-blog/882653?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/882603?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 German researchers have developed a method to artificially grow skin cells in a lab that are derived from a patient's own stem cells found within hair roots. This work has a potential for all kinds of clinical and biomedical applications, such as pla... Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:50:47 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/882603?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/a-hearty-life/882105?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 Our last poll of 2007! Have a happy and safe new year! Which type of research are you most excited about for the upcoming new year? Stem cells with their cardiac indications New lipid lowering medicines that are on ... Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:59:02 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/a-hearty-life/882105?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/eye-on-fda/881698?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 The FDA has announced an upcoming meeting on stem cells. From the federal register... On April 10, 2008, the committee will meet to discuss scientific considerations for safety testing for cellular therapy products derived from human embryonic stem... Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:25:40 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/eye-on-fda/881698?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/a-hearty-life/881564?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 Hot dog!!! We are one step closer to artificial blood vessels. Not the big ol fat ones that are relatively easy to reproduce but the tiny, fragile, minuscule capillary types that are needed to supply blood within ones body.Researchers out of... Wed, 26 Dec 2007 10:22:43 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/a-hearty-life/881564?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/881065?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 Scientists at University of California, Irvine developed a new way to sort through stem cells based on their electric charge properties.The technique used by the scientists, called dielectrophoresis, is based on the premise that different types of ce... Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:28:43 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/881065?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/880729?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 MIT researchers are developing a technique to systematically grow blood vessels in a lab, perhaps one day providing on-demand replacement capillary networks, or even arteries and veins, to treat a variety of conditions. From MIT News:The team has cre... Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:51:49 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/880729?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/880531?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 Researchers from the University of Dayton have completed the first study of its kind evaluating the potential toxicity of nanomaterials on the molecular level. Previous studies of nanomaterial safety conducted on the cellular level were shown to be ... Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:17:42 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/880531?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/a-hearty-life/879774?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 Oh boy, I get so darn excited when I read anything about the progress of stem cell research. Yes, you know which side of the debate I sit on. Scientists are getting closer and closer to the use of stem cells to help rejuvenate damaged cardiac tissue!... Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:41:33 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/a-hearty-life/879774?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/879180?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 A sickle cell compared with with a normal red blood cellFurther to my blog on retrieving stem cells from skin cells , scientists in Alabama and Massachusetts have reporteda key next step when they used the stem cell technique to give mice with sic... Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:24:25 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/879180?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/878756?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 Researchers from the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Mass. and Kyoto University in Japan used an innovative new method to reprogram adult cells to an embryonic-stem-cell-like state, and successfully cured mice with sickle-... Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:47:00 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/878756?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/straight-from-the-doc/878484?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 There is a progressive degeneration of brain cells known as dopamine (DA) cells in Parkinson's disease.What if these cells can be replaced? Indeed, the replacement of dopamine cells is now considered as a promising therapeutic strategy against Parkin... Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:24:37 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/straight-from-the-doc/878484?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/a-hearty-life/878150?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 The first heart transplant was 40 years ago and the patient lasted a little over 2 weeks. That may not have been lengthy but it sure was ground breaking. Now 4 decades later we are performing less and less heart transplants. Why?Could it be the abili... Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:25:19 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/a-hearty-life/878150?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/purple-medical-blog/877936?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 WHAT ARE STEM CELLS: YAMAKANA THOMPSON TURNED SKIN CELLS INTO STEM CELLS WHY ITS A BIG DEALStem cells are cells that can turn into any cell in the body. You may be surprised to hear that stem cells have been used to replace tissue in the body for man... Sun, 02 Dec 2007 01:11:00 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/purple-medical-blog/877936?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/doctor-weighs-in/877695?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 By Dov Michaeli MD, Ph.DStem cell research is hot, and getting hotter. Big deal, you might think. This esoteric topic may be important for some scientists, or maybe a few politicians but what s in it for me? Let me tell you right off: a lot more ... Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:22:40 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/doctor-weighs-in/877695?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/877639?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 Embryonic stem cells are derived from human embryos. They are valued as they are shown to be pluripotent - having the capability to become any of the 220 types of cell in the human body. They have the potential to generate new heart, liver,... Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:48:27 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/877639?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/mh-today/877630?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 We were all pumped about last week's stem-cell news. Researchers in Japan and Wisconsin reported that simple skin cells can be a source of the amazing cells that can grow into various body parts.Seemed like a win-win: A ready source of material that ... Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:53:24 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/mh-today/877630?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/diabetes-news-from-dlife/877084?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 November 26, 2007 (Eurekalert) - In a paper to be published Nov. 22 in the online edition of the journal Science, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers reports the genetic reprogramming of human skin cells to create cells indistinguis... Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:33:30 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/diabetes-news-from-dlife/877084?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/cancer-commentary/876680?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 Multiple myeloma is a cancer that occurs in the blood-making cells of bone marrow.Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania recently announced the fndings from two large, international clinical trials: with the oral drug lenalidomide (... Fri, 23 Nov 2007 04:46:04 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/cancer-commentary/876680?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/paging-drgupta/876538?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 You've read the news about stem cells and the experts' comments. It's the beginning of the end of the controversy, is how Dr. James Thomson put it. He ought to know because he created the first human embryonic stem cell line nearly 10 years ago ... Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:31:00 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/paging-drgupta/876538?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/diabetes-notes/876461?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers reports the genetic reprogramming of human skin cells to create cells indistinguishable from embryonic stem cells.This is a huge advancement towards the treatment and cure for diseases such as ... Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:15:21 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/diabetes-notes/876461?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/876440?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 Investigators at Rensselaer developed a novel bio-molecular scaffold, designed to provide an optimum environment for stem cells to grow. Their source of inspiration? Seaweed. We have developed a scaffold for stem cell culture that can degrade in the ... Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:01:19 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/876440?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/wsjcom-health-blog/876229?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 How do you resolve one of the most pressing dilemmas in biomedical research? Easy: Just make time run backward. Two teams of scientists are reporting today that they ve transformed adult human cells into embryonic stem cells. If the work holds up, ... Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:13:35 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/wsjcom-health-blog/876229?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/wsjcom-health-blog/875559?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 Cloning marched on yesterday with a report in Nature (abstract here) that scientists had created an embryonic clone of a monkey and harvested its stem cells. That s the simian version of what could someday be a key step in using embryonic stem cell... Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:28:06 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/wsjcom-health-blog/875559?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/875387?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 Writing ths article has made me feel somewhat queasy but hey this is a good use of us girls monthly curse !Cryo-Cell, a US company has launched a service for women to store their own stem cells taken from their menstrual blood - as a future heal... Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:50:45 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/875387?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/874885?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 The Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology is reporting that its scientists developed so-called magnetocapsules, micro-scale capsules embedded with nano-sized particles, which in turn can be stuffed with a wide variety of diagnostic or therape... Tue, 13 Nov 2007 03:45:27 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/874885?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/874887?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 Investigators from Stony Brook University Medical Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory are reporting in the latest issue of Science a methodology to detect stem/progenitor cells (NPCs) in the live human brain. Suc... Tue, 13 Nov 2007 03:00:05 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/874887?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/white-coat-notes/873773?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 University of Massachusetts Medical School cancer biologist Dr. JeanMarie Houghton (left) has won a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Her research focuses on the contribution of stem cells to cancer, in particular how norm... Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:06:54 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/white-coat-notes/873773?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/kevin-md-medical-weblog/872863?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 Duty to the patient or their religion?Benedict told a gathering of Catholic pharmacists Monday that they have the right to refuse to dispense emergency contraception or euthanasia drugs to people who have been given prescriptions by their doctors. He... Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:32:43 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/kevin-md-medical-weblog/872863?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/eye-on-fda/872567?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 There are 65 days left to the Iowa Caucus. As I mentioned last week, I intend to profile the healthcare positions of each of the candidates as those positions might affect the workings of the FDA and the pharmaceutical market. While I originally ... Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:01:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/eye-on-fda/872567?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/celebrity-cosmetic-surgery/872549?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 Sorry for the lack of updates recently. My wife and I spent the weekend in Baltimore, where I attended part of the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. I presented a talk on Lunchtime facelift surgery at the Hot Topics sem... Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:57:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/celebrity-cosmetic-surgery/872549?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/872302?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 The whole topic of junk DNA fascinates me. How can any part of DNA be considered junk? It must have had a role at some stage. DNA is too perfect to have junk parts!I found this article in Science Daily about junk DNA and the subsequent find... Sun, 28 Oct 2007 06:24:26 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/872302?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/872080?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 A Bolivar, Missouri, mother is planning to take her 10-year-old autistic son to China for an umbilical stem cell transplant that has enabled another Missouri child, Rylea Bartlett, to react to light. Kimberly Anderson s son, Autisn, also has an und... Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:02:12 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/872080?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/871880?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 MIT and University of Rochester investigators are developing a device that will be able to capture pre-specified types of cells from the blood stream and subject them to various kinds of therapies, such as killing malignant ones or delivering intrace... Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:31:21 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/871880?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/mh-today/871675?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 How weird is this: Baby mice that were subjected to vibrations didn't develop as many fat cells as mice who weren't shaken.Stem cells in the little rodents didn't turn into fat cells as readily as they did in the relatively still mice.Two things: 1. ... Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:32:50 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/mh-today/871675?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/wsjcom-health-blog/871594?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 More allegations this morning that the White House is muzzling top docs in the administration.Julie Gerberding, the physician who runs the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testified before the Senate yesterday on health and climate change.... Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:14:11 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/wsjcom-health-blog/871594?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/doctor-anonymous/871445?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 I know this probably sounds like an exercise DVD with Jenna Jameson, but I assure you, this real science here. And, no, I'm not an investment partner in the equipment featured above in this youtube link. What am I talking about?Well, now that the dis... Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:01:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/doctor-anonymous/871445?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/plastic-surgery-101/871310?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 The Boston Herald last week did a gee whiz piece on a dermatologist(!) promising to start performing breast enlargement via fat grafting despite the fact that there is no literature documenting it's either safe or effective. Over the last year I th... Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:02:16 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/plastic-surgery-101/871310?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/diabetes-news-from-dlife/870815?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 Oct. 18, 2007 (Eurekalert) With an eye on curing diabetes, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have successfully transplanted embryonic pig pancreatic cells destined to produce insulin into diabetic macaque monkeys... Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:42:38 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/diabetes-news-from-dlife/870815?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/wsjcom-health-blog/869699?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 John Moores hopes his pet health projects outperform the San Diego Padres, which he s owned since 1994.Moores, 63, made his fortune in software, but he now spends much of his time on health-care philanthropy. He s chairman of The Scripps Research... Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:12:51 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/wsjcom-health-blog/869699?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/white-coat-notes/869474?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 By Stephen Smith, Globe Staff Public health regulators today reversed a controversial limit on stem cell research that was imposed during the administration of former Governor Mitt Romney and that led scientists to fear criminal penalties if they con... Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:34:58 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/white-coat-notes/869474?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/a-hearty-life/869104?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 On October 3rd, University of Florida doctors treated their first patient in a new study that is evaluating stem cells and their exact role in regenerating blood flow to the heart. They are testing this new and experimental procedure in patients tha... Mon, 08 Oct 2007 20:10:01 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/a-hearty-life/869104?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/science-roll/869079?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 Congratulations to Mario R. Capecchi, Oliver Smithies, and Sir Martin J. Evans for winning this year s Nobel Prize in medicine for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem c... Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:59:41 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/science-roll/869079?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/wsjcom-health-blog/869050?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 This year s Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine goes to three guys who figured out how to make knockout mice mice missing a particular gene. Scientists use the mice to figure out what specific genes do.In the nearly 20 years since the f... Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:20:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/wsjcom-health-blog/869050?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/sharpbrains/869033?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 The Aspen Health Forum gathered an impressive group of around 250 to discuss the most pressing issues in Health and Medical Science (check out the Program and the Speakers bios), on October 3-6th. It was the first conference, by the way, where I... Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:09:01 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/sharpbrains/869033?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/869013?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet awarded today the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2007 to a group of scientists that developed a powerful gene targeting technique that allows inactivation or modification of particular genes in m... Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:35:20 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/869013?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/brain-blog/868983?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116 From the Nobel Assemble press release:The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2007 jointly toMario R. Capecchi, Martin J. Evans and Oliver Smithiesfor their discoveries of ... Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:07:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/brain-blog/868983?rsstype=populararticles&cid=116