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Stem Cell Headlines: Thursday, 11/26

Mother optimistic after 3-year-old receives stem cell treatment in China - 11.26.09

  • Through a worldwide online support group of parents who have children with all or some of the conditions Scarlett has, Birkmire learned about a promising stem cell treatment that has been somewhat successful in treating various conditions, including SOD. Birkmire took a year to research the procedure and the company that provides the stem cells before committing to seeking the treatment for her daughter.

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Alberta researcher makes stem cell breakthrough that could help premature babies - 11.26.09

  • An international team headed by an Edmonton physician has used stem cells to heal and protect the lungs of newborn rats - research that could help premature babies with chronic lung disease.

 

Stem cell enriched fat grafting for breast augmentation - 11.26.09

  • Cosmetic surgeons have pioneered a new technique for breast augmentation using 'fat grafting,' that involves the use of stem cells.

 

Funding Facility For ReNeuron - 11.26.09

  • Stem cell therapy concern ReNeuron has clinched a £5 million equity funding facility and cut interim losses by a third.

 

ReNeuron Secures Financing Into 2011 With New £5 Mln Equity Facility As First Half Losses Narrow - 11.26.09

  • UK based stem cell therapy company ReNeuron (AIM: RENE) announced it has secured a £5 million equity funding facility with its joint broker Matrix Corporate Capital, securing financing into 2011. ReNeuron retains control over the timing and amount of any draw-down.

 

Kyoto University granted patents for stem cell production, conversion techniques - 11.26.09

  • A patent for a set of techniques to convert artificially produced stem cells into nerve, muscle and other cell types has been granted to Kyoto University by the Japan Patent Office, the university announced on Wednesday.

 

Daresbury stem cell specialist BioEDEN maintains international growth strategy - 11.26.09

  • BioEDEN is based at Daresbury and claims to be the first company in the world to collect, amplify and cryogenically store living stem cells from children’s milk teeth.

 

Stem cell bank gets harvesting equipment - 11.26.09

  • CHENNAI: A city-based stem cell bank on Wednesday urged the Rotary Foundation to add stem cells to the bouquet of projects it runs at the national level.

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The stem cell boob job: It takes fat from your thighs to boost your bust - but does it work? - 11.26.09

  • Lucy Mead, 23, is a sales adviser and lives in Ruislip, Middlesex. This month she became the first person in the UK to have a cell enriched breast augmentation – a pioneering new procedure that promises to permanently increase the size of a woman’s breasts using fat and stem cells from her own body without the need for implants or top-up treatment.

 

European Biotech company opens new facility in Medford - 11.25.09

  • Medford, MA is home to the new Biocell Center  for research and preservation of stem cells. Biocell Center is a European Biotech company known to be the first of its kind to harvest and preserve stem cells taken from the amniotic fluid around fetuses.

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