Mesenchymal Cell News 1.02, September 15, 2009. Click here if you are unable to see images in this e-mail.

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Mesoblast Limited Proprietary Stem Cells Successfully Repair/Regenerate Damaged Intervertebral Disc Cartilage

Mesoblast's proprietary adult stem cells show highly successful results for the treatment of degenerative disc disease in controlled, randomised preclinical trial. [Mesoblast Ltd., Melbourne]

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SCIENCE NEWS

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Pluristem Begins Enrollment in U.S. With Unmatched Placenta-Derived Stem Cell Product PLX-PAD in a Phase I Clinical Trial for Treatment of Peripheral Artery Disease
Pluristem Therapeutics Inc. today announced that it has begun enrolling patients in the U.S. for a Phase I clinical trial with its unmatched placenta-derived stem cell product, PLX-PAD, the Company's leading product candidate for the treatment of critical limb ischemia, the end-stage of peripheral artery disease. [Pluristem Therapeutics, Haifa]

STEMCELL Technologies Applauds Feeder-free Derivation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
Using adipose cells as the starting cell population and mTeSR(TM)1, a defined medium that allows the expansion of human embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells without the use of feeders, the researchers were able to fully reprogram cells to the pluripotent state. [STEMCELL Technologies, Vancouver]

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CURRENT PUBLICATIONS

Endovenous Administration of Bone Marrow-Derived Multipotent Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Prevents Renal Failure in Diabetic Mice
Preclinical results support MSC administration as a cell therapy strategy to prevent chronic renal diseases secondary to diabetes. [Biol Blood Marrow Transplant]

Encapsulated Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells: A Unique Hypoimmunogenic Platform for Long-Term Cellular Therapy
In vitro and in vivo immunogenicity studies revealed that encapsulated hMSCs were significantly hypoimmunogenic, leading to a 3-fold decrease in cytokine expression compared to entrapped cell lines. [FASEB J]

Bi-Directional Activation Between Mesenchymal Stem Cells and CLL B-cells: Implication for CLL Disease Progression
In MSC, rapid ERK and AKT phosphorylation were detected when chronic lymphocytic leukaemia B-cells and MSC were separated by transwell; indicating that activation of MSC was mediated by soluble factors. [Br J Haematol]

Mesenchymal Stem Cells Produce Wnt Isoforms and TGFBeta1 that Mediate Proliferation and Pro-Collagen Expression by Lung Fibroblasts
Data demonstrate that MSC from mice and humans produce Wnt proteins and TGFBeta-1 that respectively stimulate LF proliferation and matrix production, two hallmarks of fibroproliferative lung disease. [Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol]

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INDUSTRY NEWS

SEC Accuses CellCyte, Execs of Fraud
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday accused CellCyte Genetics Corp. and two of its top former executives of making misleading statements to investors and pumping up the company's share price by fraudulent means.



POLICY NEWS

Legislature Approves Stem Cell and Biotechnology Education Bill
A bill to help California develop a homegrown workforce for the state´s stem cell and biotechnology industries cleared its final hurdle in the legislature recently with Senate approval of amendments the Assembly adopted Tuesday.


MEDICINES AND HEALTHCARE PRODUCTS REGULATORY AGENCY (United Kingdom)

The Better Regulation of Medicines Initiative (BROMI) publishes its fourth progress report



FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION (United States)

Cellular, Tissue and Gene Therapies Advisory Committee; Notice of Meeting


National Institutes of Health (United States)

NINDS Names Dr. Petra Kaufmann Director of the Office of Clinical Research




EVENTS

2009 Stem Cells Europe/ World Biobanking Summit
September 23-25, 2009, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

World Stem Cell Summit 2009
September 23-25, 2009, Baltimore, MD, United States

Mesenchymal Stem Cell Conference 2009
November 12-14, 2009, Austin, TX, United States

Molecular Tri Conference & The Stem Cell Meeting
February 2-5, 2010, San Francisco, CA, United States

Blood and Marrow Transplantation
February 24-28, 2010, Orlando, FL, United States

World Congress Regenerative Medicine
March 12-14, 2010, Bangkok, Thailand

The European Group for Blood & Marrow Transplantation Annual Meeting
March 21-24, 2010, Vienna, Austria

9th Transgenic Technology Meeting
March 22-24, 2010, Berlin, Germany


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