Daily Business Report - Aug. 21, 2014

Despite many setbacks, San Diego State University scientists brought a DNA sequencer to the Line Islands and accomplished remote sequencing in real time.

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Biologists Reprogram Skin Cells to Mimic Rare Disease

... orted by grants from the New York Stem Cell Foundation (Robertson Investigator Award) and the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund (TEDCO). Neural crest cells were made from reprogrammed adult skin cells. A single neural crest cell divided many times and

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Church in Ohio discourages ice bucket challenge for ALS

... bucket challenge, but any funds raised should be given to organizations that combat ALS without embryonic stem cell research. An ALS Association spokeswoman says the group funds one study involving embryonic stem cells, but donors can stipulate that ...

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Some barred from ice bucket challenge

... bucket challenge, but any funds raised should be given to organizations that combat ALS without embryonic stem cell research. An ALS Association spokeswoman says the group funds one study involving embryonic stem cells, but donors can stipulate that ...

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Ohio diocese discourages ALS ice bucket challenge

... bucket challenge, but any funds raised should be given to organizations that combat ALS without embryonic stem cell research. An ALS Association spokeswoman says the group funds one study involving embryonic stem cells, but donors can stipulate that ...

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Religious conservatives urge people to stop taking 'ALS...

... year to $31.5 million this year. But as McCullough pointed out, this money will be used to fund embryonic stem cell research, which "means that children are created and at their earliest stages of life they are destroyed so that the stem cells (from ...

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Biologists reprogram skin cells to mimic rare disease

Neural crest cells were made from reprogrammed adult skin cells. A single neural crest cell divided many times and these cells were coaxed to become four different types of adult cells, as shown by the presence of cell-specific proteins .

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