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Study Results Suggests Adult Stem Cells May Help Repair Hearts Damaged by Heart Attack
Results from the Phase I study show stem cells from donor bone marrow appear to help heart attack patients recover better by growing new blood vessels to bring more oxygen to the heart. [Rush University Medical Center, Chicago]

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SCIENCE NEWS

Muscle Cell Infusion Shown to Strengthen Sphincters in Animals
A new study shows that muscle cells grown in the lab can restore an intestine's ability to squeeze shut properly. The work, performed in dogs and rats, might ultimately help treat patients with conditions such as gastric reflux and fecal incontinence. [Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford]

Study on Very Small Embryonic-Like Stem Cell Mobilization Presented at American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting on December 5, 2009
Researchers show that very small embryonic-like stem cells, normally rare in peripheral blood, can be released in greater numbers from the bone marrow by using an FDA approved drug called G-CSF. The authors postulate that G-CSF mobilization could become a novel strategy to obtain human pluripotent stem cells. [NeoStem, Inc., New York]

CURRENT PUBLICATIONS

Airway Delivery of Mesenchymal Stem Cells Prevents Arrested Alveolar Growth in Neonatal Lung Injury in Rats
The therapeutic potential of bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stemcells was assessed in a chronichyperoxia-induced model of bronchopulmonary dysplasia in newborn rats. [Am J Respir Crit Care Med]

The Human Nose Harbours a Niche of Olfactory Ecto-mesenchymal Stem Cells Displaying Neurogenic and Osteogenic Properties
Multipotent stem cells within the lamina propria of the human olfactory mucosa, known to differentiate into neural cells and improves locomotor behavior after transplantation in a rat model of Parkinson's disease, were compared for their specific stemness characteristics to bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells from 4 age- and gender-matched individuals. [Stem Cells Dev]

Use of Small Interfering Ribonucleic Acids to Inhibit the Adipogenic Effect of Alcohol on Human Bone Marrow-derived Mesenchymal Cells
Researchers tested the potential of small interfering RNAs targeting human peroxisome proliferator activated receptor gamma to repress the adipogenic effect of alcohol on human bone marrow-derived mesenchymal cells. [Int Orthop]

A Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled, Dose-escalation Study of Intravenous Adult Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells (Prochymal) After Acute Myocardial Infarction
In this study the researchers investigated the safety and efficacy of intravenous allogeneic human mesenchymal stem cells in patients with myocardial infarction. [J Am Coll Cardiol]

Simultaneous Characterization of Progenitor Cell Compartments in Adult Human Liver
Scientists identified and characterized precursors committed to four different lineages in adult human liver by assessing their relative frequencies and characterizing their immunophenotypes in the clinical specimens. [Cytometry A]

New Emerging Potentials for Human Wharton's Jelly Mesenchymal Stem Cells: Immunological Features and Hepatocyte-like Differentiative Capacity
Recent data on the potential of Wharton's jelly mesenchymal stem cells to undergo hepatocyte-like differentiation with the results obtained from other adult mesenchymal stem cells populations was compared by researchers. [Stem Cells Dev]

INDUSTRY NEWS

Stem Cell Commercialization Center in Detroit Aims to Create Jobs
A new stem cell commercialization center is set to open in Detroit's TechTown incubator as early as July and is seeking federal grants to bring new high-tech jobs to the city.

Financial Backing from the University of California Spurs Construction of Stem Cell Center
Construction on the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine will begin on San Diego's stem cell center this week, now that financing is in place.

Women Researchers Less Likely to Receive Major Career Funding Grants
Women were less likely than men to receive major funding for scientific research, according to a study from the University of Michigan Health System. The study also found that only a quarter of all researchers, both men and women, who received a major early career award went on to receive further federal funding within five years.

POLICY NEWS

First Human Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Approved for Use Under New NIH Guidelines

U.S. Set to Fund More Stem Cell Study
The Obama administration has begun approving new lines of human embryonic stem cells that are eligible for federally funded experiments, opening the way for millions of taxpayer dollars to be used to conduct research that was put off-limits by President George W. Bush.

The Public is Encouraged to Support Medicare Coverage of Bone Marrow Transplants for Myelodysplastic Syndromes Patients
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is currently accepting input from the public about whether the Medicare program should be expanded to cover the cost of bone marrow and umbilical cord blood transplants for myelodysplastic syndromes patients.

EVENTS

Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine World Congress
January 20-21, 2010
San Francisco, United States

CHI's Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference 2010
February 3-5, 2010
San Francisco, United States

2010 Bone Marrow Transplant Tandem Meetings
February 24-28, 2010
Orlando, United States

36^th Annual Meeting of the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation
March 21-24, 2010
Vienna, Austria

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

4th UK Mesenchymal Stem Cell Meeting
April 14, 2010
Leeds, United Kingdom

2010 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting
June 4-8, 2010
Chicago, United States

16th Annual ISCT meeting
May 23-26, 2010
Philadelphia, United States

5^th World Congress on Regenerative Medicine
October 5-7, 2010
Hannover, Germany

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