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• Gamble pays off in rare disease

  - 2008-06-03

  Two-year-old Nate Liao has spent his young life swathed in bandages from head to toe. Nate has a rare and deadly genetic disease that prevents his skin from attaching to his body. The slightest friction against his skin, such as the rubbing of the seam from...

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• Flawed stem cell data withdrawn.

  - 2007-02-20

  Byline: Peter Aldhous and Eugenie Samuel Reich Feb 20, 2007 (New Scientist - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Some of the data contained within the best-known stem cell papers in the past five years is being questioned. For example, in 2002, Catherine Verfaillie of the ...

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• Cryobanks International, Inc. Research Affiliates at the Center of Two Important Cord Blood Discoveries

  - 2006-11-20

  Reports published earlier this month support the increased diversity of the non-controversial umbilical cord blood stem cell. Researchers based at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom have grown an artificial mini-liver from umbilical cord blood stem cells. In a separate study scientists at the Clinical Cell Therapy Lab at the...

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• Cytotherapy Report Confirms BioE Stem Cell First Human Cord Blood Stem Cell to Differentiate into Lung Cell

  - 2006-11-01

  BioE and University of Minnesota Extend Stem Cell Research Agreement to Further Evaluate MLPC to Treat Lung Injuries and Respiratory Disease ST. PAUL, Minn. -- BioE([R]), Inc., a biomedical company providing human umbilical cord blood stem cells as enabling, high-quality cellular tools for drug discovery and therapeutic research, announced...

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• BioE Stem Cell First Human Cord Blood Stem Cell to Turn into Lung Cell; University of Minnesota Researchers Differentiate MLPC into Type II Alveolar Cells

  - 2006-05-08

  ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Studies Continue to Evaluate Clinical and Therapeutic Potential of Rare Cord Blood Stem Cell to Treat Respiratory Conditions BioER, Inc., a biomedical company providing human cord blood stem cells as enabling, high-quality cellular tools for drug discovery and therapeutic research, announced today researchers at the...

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• Cryobanks International Recognizes The University of Minnesota for Recent Stem Cell Discovery

  - 2006-03-02

  Research published in the latest issue of the journal, "Stem Cells and Development," reveals new findings that identify a small population of cord blood cells with characteristics of more primitive cells. These primitive stem cells have the potential to produce a greater variety of cell types than was previously shown...

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• Research Studies Confirm Promise of Novel Cord Blood Stem Cell from BioE

  - 2005-12-14

  ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Comparative study finds MLPC offers "exciting capabilities for tissue engineering applications"; Collaborative study proves MLPC has significant differentiation capabilities BioER, Inc., a biomedical company providing non-embryonic, human stem cells, announced today that studies conducted by researchers at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in the...

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• Medtronic, University of Minnesota Join to Accelerate Stem Cell Research in Quest for Cardiovascular Therapies

  - 2002-09-30

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• Scientist supports cause on two fronts.

  - 2002-08-22

  Aug 22, 2002 The Age ABIX via COMTEX -- A prominent US scientist says research on both adult and embryonic stem cells is necessary. The University of Minnesota's Catherine Verfaillie has made advances in researching adult stem cells, leading some Australian Government ministers to...

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• Our $46m blunder.

  - 2002-07-09

  Jul 09, 2002 Herald Sun ABIX via COMTEX -- It was announced in the US in mid-2002 that researchers at the University of Minnesota had isolated the ultimate adult stem cell. The revelation shows that human embryos do not need to be destroyed...

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