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COVINA, Calif., Nov. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- StemCyte, Inc. proudly announces an agreement with the UC Davis Umbilical Cord Blood Collection (UCB) Program in Sacramento to advance the collection, processing and registration of high quality and diverse cord blood cells from California mothers for public banking. The cord blood will be used in treating patients facing life-threatening illnesses. The agreement is the first of its kind under California's unique statewide program....
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research investigates the relationship between environmental influences and stem cell development for the first time Environmental contaminants, such as smoking, are harmful to the human organism in relation to the occurrence of allergies. This is known. Until now, researchers had never investigated whether and to what extent environmental contaminants also affect allergy-relevant stem cells. For the first time a team at the Helmholtz Centre for...
HONG KONG, Nov. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- China Cord Blood Corporation (NYSE: CO) (the "Company") today announced its plan to release financial results for the second quarter and first half of fiscal year 2013 on Monday, November 19, 2012, after market close in the US. The Company will host a conference call at 8:00 a.m. ET on Tuesday, November 20, 2012 to discuss its financial performance and give a brief overview of the Company's recent developments, followed...
HONG KONG, Nov. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- China Cord Blood Corporation (NYSE:CO) ("CCBC" or the "Company"), the first and largest cord blood banking operator in China, today announced the successful completion of the transaction with Cordlife Group Limited (CLGL.SP) ("Cordlife"), a cord blood and tissue banking service provider listed on the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited ("SGX-ST"). The transaction was first announced on August 15, 2012. As a result of the...
Connie K. Ho for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Researchers from Duke University Medical Center recently revealed that they have been able to engineer cartilage from pluripotent stem cells, which will help in studies regarding cartilage injury and osteoarthritis. In particular, the pluripotent stem cells were induced and then successful developed to be used in tissue repair. The scientists believe that the induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) could become a source for...
Genetics researchers at the University of Adelaide have solved a 40-year mystery for a family beset by a rare intellectual disability – and they've discovered something new about the causes of intellectual disability in the process. While many intellectual disabilities are caused directly by a genetic mutation in the so-called "protein coding" part of our genes, the researchers found that in their case the answer laid outside the gene and in the regulation of proteins. Protein...
Connie K. Ho for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Researchers from Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) recently revealed a new gene therapy method that can successfully prevent particular inherited diseases. The scientists worked under the college’s Oregon National Primate Research Center as well as the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at OHSU and were able to complete the procedure in human cells. With the findings of the study, the new gene therapy will provide new...
MADISON, Wis., Oct. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Institutes of Health Center for Regenerative Medicine (NIH-CRM) has awarded Cellular Dynamics International, Inc. (CDI), the world's largest commercial producer of human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell lines and tissue cells, a contract to provide human iPS cell lines and terminally differentiated tissue cells from normal or specified patient populations. The contract is worth up to $7.0 million for the three year life of...
Fat progenitor cells may contribute to cancer growth by fortifying the vessels that provide needed blood to tumors, according to preclinical research findings by investigators at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). The results were reported in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. Studies of groups of people have demonstrated a link between obesity and certain cancers; however, the physiological causes have not been...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Stem cell research, as promising as it may be, has always run into some controversial matters of ethics. As such, research into these stem cells and their relatively untapped potential could be hampered by these legal and political roadblocks. Now new research has discovered a method of harvesting pockets of cells from the scalps and brain linings of recently deceased humans then repurposing them as stem cells. With this new method,...
