Tag: "stem cell"
SF Scientist Wins Nobel for Stem Cell Breakthrough
Shinya Yamanaka, a stem cell researcher at the Gladstone Institutes and professor at the University of California, San Francisco, has won this year's Nobel Prize in medicine.
Post on Oct 08, 2012 by Gabriela Quirós from QUEST Northern California
Prop 71: Stem Cell Funding Was Overhyped But Worth It
Remember back in 2004 that big debate about whether California voters should fund embryonic stem (ES) cell research? Well it passed and now 8 years later, people are starting to ask what we have to show for it.
Post on Apr 02, 2012 by Dr. Barry Starr from QUEST Northern California
Major Breakthrough in Reviving Heart Cells
Scientists reported today that they have succeeded for the first time in creating beating heart cells from other types of adult cells.
Post on Aug 05, 2010 by Gabriela Quirós
Reporter's Notes: Stem Cells and Horses
Performance horses at his level can be worth $60,000 and more. Training, too, is an enormous investment. "Gretchen," as we call her in the piece, has spent years training Disney in English dressage.
Post on Jun 19, 2009 by Amy Standen
Reporter's Notes: New Life for Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Researchers call stem cell technology a "revolution" in medicine, along the lines of the development of antibiotics in the 1940s, or the manufacturing of insulin and other therapies from recombinant DNA breakthroughs.
Post on Jan 16, 2009 by David Gorn
How to get away with murder
ABC, Yahoo! and others ran a story about a woman who had a liver transplant whose blood type ended up changing. I love stories like this. Not because of the change itself. Most likely, stem cells traveled from the new liver to the patient’s bone marrow. There, the stem cells set up shop and gave [...]
Post on Feb 04, 2008 by Dr. Barry Starr
