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A year after the state adopted a proposal to expand embryonic stem cell research, state scientists say the voters' will is being defied by pro-life West Michigan lawmakers pushing for restrictions.

Rhode Island Hospital has received an $11 million grant to fund research that will lead to a general understanding of stem cell biology and identify unique approaches to tissue regeneration in lung and marrow diseases.

Stem cell researchers at the Gladstone Institute in San Francisco and Stanford Medical School have joined a new national consortium linking teams of scientists who normally work independently with other groups that seek to discover new therapies for varied human disorders.

Climate change could be cancelled out in a staggeringly ambitious plan to plant the Sahara desert and Australian outback with trees One day, this could all be trees a a recent scientific paper claims that turning deserts into forests is the best way forward.

New research reveals how proteins that are critical for the transparency of the eye lens are properly sorted and localized in membrane bilayers.

While a stem cell can renew itself indefinitely or differentiate into an adult cell, a progenitor cell can only divide a limited number of times and is often more limited than a stem cell in the kinds of cells it can become.

E-mail: smai@cc.umanitoba.ca 5 Received 11 March 2009; Revised 16 September 2009; Accepted 23 September 2009; Published online 2 November 2009.

Editor's note: This is part of a monthlong series on the battle against cancer in a Butler County.

Main Category: Stem Cell Research Also Included In: Biology / Biochemistry Article Date: 30 Oct 2009 - 0:00 PDT The National Institute of General Medical Sciences , part of the National Institutes of Health, is using $5.4 million of Recovery Act funds to accelerate basic studies of induced pluripotent stem cells .

The National Institute of General Medical Sciences , part of the National Institutes of Health, is using $5.4M of Recovery Act funds to accelerate basic studies of induced pluripotent stem cells.

Cancer Research UK scientists have used a cutting edge microscopy technique to identify genes whose activity could be blocked by drugs to stop the spread of the breast cancer.

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Cell biologist at Medical College of Wisconsin discovered a way to turn skin cells into healthy liver cells.

A common weed and human cancer cells could provide details about DNA structure and its relationship with telomeres-a section of DNA believed to affect cellular aging and cancer.

Two different anti-apoptotic proteins support cancer cell survival via an identical mechanism, yet differ in their sensitivity to chemotherapeutic drugs, report Brunelle et al.

From the Department of Environmental Medicine and the Lung Biology and Disease Program , the Center for Pediatric Biomedical Research , and the Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine , Medicine , and Pediatrics , University of Rochester, NY.

University of Michigan researchers have been awarded 13 federal stimulus-fund grants to date, totaling $6.8 million, for research projects involving both adult and embryonic stem cells.

The University of Michigan has received 13 federal stimulus grants worth $6.8 million for stem cell research - a sign of the state's growing clout since voters last year eased restrictions in the emerging field that seeks treatments and cures for numerous diseases.

The Medical College of Wisconsin has been awarded a five-year, $8 million, multi-investigator Program Project Grant from the National Institutes of Health to understand how human pluripotent stem cells, defined as cells which if left to their own designs can develop into any of the more than 200 cell types in the human body, can be channeled to ...

E-mail: susan.waltz@uc.edu Received 28 April 2009; Revised 25 August 2009; Accepted 12 September 2009; Published online 19 October 2009.