Nearly 18-hour debate about tax dollars at Capitol

... border security funding. Lawmakers wanted to divert funding to other state and local entities - including stem cell research and transportation money - but most of the efforts failed. One amendment that passed cut $3 million in state funds for ...

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Clinical trial uses patients' own cells for personalized treatment after bone marrow transplant

An innovative clinical trial using the science of "personalized" cellular therapy has begun enrolling children and adults suffering from graft-versus-host-disease , a life-threatening complication of bone marrow transplantation in which donor immune lymphocytes attack the organs of the bone marrow transplant recipient. Bone marrow transplantation is performed in some patients with cancers of the blood or bone marrow, including multiple myeloma and leukemia, as well as in some patients with sickle cell disease, thallesemia, aplastic anemia and inherited immune deficiency.

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Nearly 18-hour debate about tax dollars at Capitol

... border security funding. Lawmakers wanted to divert funding to other state and local entities - including stem cell research and transportation money - but most of the efforts failed. One amendment that passed cut $3 million in state funds for ...

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Lab Head, iPSC Platform - " Neuroscience

The company's mission is to use its expertise, dedicated people and unique approach to innovation to develop and market advanced therapies that address some of the world's most complex and serious diseases. AbbVie employs approximately 25,000 people worldwide and markets medicines in more than 170 countries.

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Researchers identify 'beige' fat-burning cells in humans

... appointment in the UCSF Diabetes Center and the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCSF. All mammals, including humans, have two types of fat with completely opposite functions: white, which stores energy ...

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Retinoic Acid Regulates Hematopoietic Development from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

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Stem cell therapy firm ReNeuron is on track to relocate to Wales next year

Stem cell therapy firm ReNeuron has hired a manager to be the face of the business in Wales when it relocates from Guildford later this year. In March 2014 the business signed an agreement with the Welsh Government to lease a manufacturing and development facility at Pencoed Technology Park.

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