Save lives through tissue donation

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - When we think about human tissue donation, it's generally associated with lifesaving kidney and heart transplants.

http://www.gjfreepress.com/ARTICLE/20130301/COMMUNITY_NEWS/130229935/-1/RSS

Leukemia Patients Get Treatment Boost From Donors' Immune Cells

Researchers say they've found a way to tweak and strengthen immune cells to maximize their leukemia -fighting capability while minimizing their toxic effects on the patient.

http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=168144

Mahendra Rao from NIH to present at the Stem Cell Summit 2013

... Committee chair; and as the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine and International Society for Stem Cell Research liaison to the International Society for Cellular Therapy. The 2013 Stem Cell Summit includes two parallel tracks including ...

http://www.pr-inside.com/mahendra-rao-from-nih-to-present-r3600219.htm

Muscle-derived Stem Cell Sheets Support Pump Function and Prevent...

Correspondence: Johnny Huard, Stem Cell Research Center, 450 Technology Drive, Bridgeside Point II, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219, USA.

http://www.nature.com/mt/journal/v21/n3/full/mt2012266a.html

In This Issue

Ocular gene therapies have the potential to improve the quality of life of patients with inherited retinal disease.

http://www.nature.com/mt/journal/v21/n3/full/mt201321a.html

Stem cell line could also advance research into liver cancers, cystic fibrosis

Chronic or acute, liver failure can be deadly. Toxins take over, the skin turns yellow and higher brain function slows.

http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130301/Stem-cell-line-could-also-advance-research-into-liver-cancers-cystic-fibrosis.aspx

Extreme Life Extension Research and Development Fund Raising

... the stem cells. It is difficult to obtain normal funding for this kind of research, as the current stem cell research is focused on embryonic stem (ES) cells or genetically induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) cells. The potential of ES and iPS cells are ...

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/2/prweb10481336.htm