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Cellectis

Established in 2008, Cellectis bioresearch combines its expertise in targeted DNA editing and stem cell technology to develop tools and services for the life sciences industry.

Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute

The Institute comprises 11 Departments: Biomedical Engineering, Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Genomic Medicine Institute, Immunology, Molecular Cardiology, Molecular Genetics (including the Section of Virology), Neurosciences, Pathobiology, Quantitative Health Sciences, and Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine.

Conghua city yueyuan animal breeding farm

The monkeys are used scientific research, including gene therapy, cancer, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, stem cells and antibody-based treatments.

Faye Armitage

Faye Armitage (born 29 May 1958 in Bogotá, Colombia) is a health activist and Florida politician, known for her advocacy efforts in support of stem cell research.

Huntington's disease clinical research

Stem cell therapy is the replacement of damaged neurons by transplantation of stem cells into affected regions of the brain.

Interleukin 7

IL-7 stimulates the differentiation of multipotent (pluripotent) hematopoietic stem cells into lymphoid progenitor cells (as opposed to myeloid progenitor cells where differentiation is stimulated by IL-3).

Jeunes Agape

Ian (left) was the recipient of Deon's blood donor stem cells in a successful transplant procedure to treat aplastic anemia conducted by the United States National Institutes of Health.

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Ira Black (1941–2006), neuroscientist and stem cell researcher who served as the first director of the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey.

Peripheral light focusing

The limbal region is a stem cell rich tissue and as a result of the focusing of SUVR, it is thought that ocular conditions such as Pinguecula and Pterygium are a result of this increased exposure to SUVR.

Quackwatch

Quackwatch has also been cited or mentioned by journalists in reports on therapeutic touch, Vitamin O, Almon Glenn Braswell's baldness treatments, dietary supplements, Robert Barefoot's coral calcium claims, William C. Rader's "stem cell" therapy, noni juice, shark cartilage, and infomercials.

Reversine

Reversine, or 2-(4-morpholinoanilino)-6-cyclohexylaminopurine, is a small molecule developed by the group of Peter G. Schultz, used for stem cell dedifferentiation.

The Baby Formula

Directed by Alison Reid, the film stars Angela Vint and Megan Fahlenbock as Athena and Lilith, a lesbian couple each pregnant with the other's baby through an experimental stem cell procedure that created artificial sperm from their DNA.


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Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

Recently, autologous stem cell transplantation using mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) has been used to improve recovery time from ACL surgery, especially for athletes.

Catherine Verfaillie

The British biomedical publication New Scientist declared it as the "ultimate stem cell discovery".

Deandre Latimore

He is also a member of Team Fight to Walk, which supports America's first clinical stem cell trial, along with other notable fighters such as Boyd Melson, Shawn Estrada, Steve Cunningham, Denis Douglin and Demetrius Andrade.

Francesco Bellini

Dr. Bellini is also a member of the following Board of Directors: Molson Coors Brewing Company; Montreal Heart Institute Foundation; Italian Chamber of Commerce; the Government of Canada's Science Technology & Innovation Council; and Stem Cell Therapeutics Corp.

Gail Martin

Gail R. Martin, American biologist attributed with coining the term "embryonic stem cell"

George Daley

George Q. Daley, professor of hematology and the director of the Stem Cell Transplantation Program at Children’s Hospital Boston

Gladstone Institutes

Many research areas build upon the stem cell work of Gladstone Senior Investigator Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD.

Glenn McGee

On February 13, 2012, it was announced that McGee had accepted a position as President of the Ethics Research Division at Celltex Therapeutics Corporation, a Houston, Texas, stem cell bank.

Gustav Gaudernack

He further generated monoclonal antibodies specific for the hematopoietic stem cell marker, CD34.

Heat of the Moment

In a 2001 episode of South Park titled "Kenny Dies", Eric Cartman sings the song to the United States Congress to convince them to reverse a ban on stem cell research (telling them that he wanted to save his 8-year-old friend Kenny McCormick from muscular dystrophy), eventually leading members of Congress in a sing-along.

I Concur

Subject matter has previously focused on the Korean stem cell scientist Hwang Woo Suk (on "Decimal Places"), the building of the M62 motorway around Stott Hall Farm (on "Build Around Me") and the American TV series The Wire (on "Sobotka").

Kenny Dies

Cartman gives a speech to the House of Representatives on behalf of stem cell research.

Kirstin Matthews

In 2010, Matthews was invited onto a national talk show to discuss stem cell policy hosted by Armstrong Williams.

KITR

KIT receptor, a membrane-bound receptor for mast/stem cell growth factor.

Lynden David Hall

In October 2003, Hall was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma; he died on 14 February 2006, at the age of 31, from complications resulting from the stem cell transplant he received in January 2005.

Ming-Ming Zhou

The current focuses of his laboratory include the roles of the Trithorax protein complexes and the Polycomb repressive complexes in gene activation and silencing in human biology of health and disease such as stem cell self-renewal and lineage commitment, cancer and inflammation.

New York Stem Cell Foundation

In 2005, Susan L. Solomon co-founded The New York Stem Cell Foundation to accelerate stem cell research to cure major disease.

The largest prize for stem cell research, each recipient receives a cash award as well as a sculpture designed by the architect Frank Gehry, winner of the 2009 NYSCF Humanitarian Award.

Kevin Eggan, PhD, of Harvard University, applied induced pluripotent stem cell derivation techniques pioneered by Shinya Yamanaka, MD, to generate the first motor neurons from skin samples of ALS patients.

Oscar Gonzalez-Perez

Dr. Oscar Gonzalez-Perez, M.D., Ph.D, is a Professor of Neuroscience in the School of Psychology at the University of Colima, Mexico, an honorary professor of Neuroscience in the Doctorado en Ciencias Biomedicas at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico, and an invited professor of Neuroscience and Cellular Medicine in the Brain Tumor Stem Cell Laboratory of Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Paul Goldberger

He is married to Susan L. Solomon, who is the co-founder and CEO of The New York Stem Cell Foundation, a research institute.

Quizartinib

Specifically, Quizartinib selectively inhibits class III receptor tyrosine kinases, including FMS-related tyrosine kinase 3 (FLT3/STK1), colony-stimulating factor 1 receptor (CSF1R/FMS), stem cell factor receptor (SCFR/KIT), and platelet derived growth factor receptors (PDGFRs).

Rubinstein

Pablo Rubinstein, Chilean doctor who pioneered the preservation and medical use of placenta blood as a form of stem cell technology.

Schöler

Hans Robert Schöler (born 1953, a molecular biologist and stem cell researcher

Stem cell laws

The federal granting agencies, CIHR, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada teamed up and agreed that no research with human IPSCs would be funded without review and approval from the Stem Cell Oversight Committee (SCOC).

Stem cell laws and policy in the United States

9 March 2009 - President Barack Obama signs an executive order reversing federal opposition to embryonic Stem Cell research.

Bill Frist (R-TN) and Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), a vocal abortion opponent, called for limited federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research....

2001–2006 - U.S. President George W. Bush signs an executive order which restricts federally funded stem cell research on embryonic stem cells to the already derived cell lines.

Stephen Emerson

Stephen G. Emerson (born 1953), American stem cell biologist and clinical hematologist/oncologist; president of Haverford College from 2007 to 2011; as of 2012, director of Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center

Transplantable organs and tissues

Stem cell transplantation was pioneered using bone-marrow-derived stem cells by a team at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center from the 1950s through the 1970s led by E. Donnall Thomas, whose work was later recognized with a Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

In September 2006 the Steve Mills Stem Cell Laboratory, which had been established by a charity created by Southampton F.C. footballer Steve Mills, moved from the Royal South Hampshire Hospital to a new location at Southampton General Hospital, and was officially opened on 27 September 2006 by Steve's widow Jo and former Southampton footballer and manager, Alan Ball.

University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Stem cell research at the school is aided in part by funding from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and the promotion of WiCell.