1. Stem cell research
A stem cell is a "generic" cell that can make exact copies of itself indefinitely. In addition, a stem cell has the ability to produce specialized cells for various tissues in the body --...
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2. Stem Cells: MedlinePlus
Stem cells are cells with the potential to develop into many different types of cells in the body. They serve as a repair system for the body. There are two main types of stem cells...
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3. Tumor Stem Cells
In the mid-1990s, Canadian researchers discovered the first cancer-initiating cells in patients with acute myeloid leukemia. These so-called cancer stem cells, which make up less than five percent of a tumor, may, in fact, be the cell<...
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4. Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplant
Most stem cells are in your bone marrow. You also have some that circulate from your marrow into your blood. Bone marrow stem cells turn into red blood cells, white blood cells, or platelets to help...
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5. U-M to begin accepting donated embryos for stem cell research
University researchers have received approval to begin accepting donated embryos that will be used to derive the university’s first human embryonic stem cell lines. The cell lines will be used to study the causes...
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6. Stem Cell Breakthrough Uses No Embryos - Parkinson's Disease Foundation (PDF)
Scientists have made ordinary human skin cells take on the chameleon-like powers of embryonic stem cells, a startling breakthrough that might someday deliver the medical payoffs of embryo cloning without the...
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7. New Stem Cell Breakthrough Avoids Destroying Human Embryos - ABC News
Stem cell researchers may have taken the first steps toward conducting stem cell research without having to take the controversial step of destroying human embryos.
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8. Sloan-Kettering - Projects: (II) Lineage specification and embryo-derived stem cells.
Live imaging the specification and segregation of pluripotent epiblast and primitive endoderm lineages in the early mouse embryo
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9. National Institute on Aging - Reprogramming in Mouse Preimplantation Embryos and Stem Cells
Reprogramming in Mouse Preimplantation Embryos and Stem Cells: The National Institute on Aging, a major research component of the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Health and Human Services, is recruiting for postdoctoral positio.....
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10. Document Index: Mastering Stem Cells
Mastering Stem Cells; Goodell Examines Stem Cells; Answer: No; Unlimited Potential; Specialized Cells; Addressing a Challenge; Mastering HSC Production; Student Researcher: Solving Pieces of the HSC Puzzle; Making...
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