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BioKidz: the Children of the Stem Cell Revolution to go Global

Posted: September 22, 2014 at 9:44 pm

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BioKidz is a simple concept which aims to engage children in the importance of stem cell medicine. Aimed at an audience of 4-9 year olds, the company now aims to use it in the 21 countries in which it operates.

BioEden has been invited to speak with parents and teachers later this month, as the BioKidz site aims to be a good source of scientific information for primary school teachers.

The BioEden proposition is very simple one: harvest the stem cells from a naturally shed baby tooth, store the viable cells for future therapeutic use, and guarantee that the cells will be available when needed.

As stem cell medicine is now becoming commonplace, it is important that there is a stem cell match when needed. The easiest way to do this is by harvesting and storing one's own cells, and there is no easier way than from naturally shed teeth.

The company admits that they could be putting the ordinary tooth fairy out of business, but they hasten to add that BioKidz have their own hero in the form of a Super Tooth Fairy who works within their own stem cell laboratories.

Children can meet BioEden the Super Tooth Fairy by visiting http://www.bioeden.com.

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Mystery donor of $1 million for stem cell research in …

Posted: September 21, 2014 at 11:56 pm

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- It's a secret no more.

The donor who gave $1 million last spring to the newly formed Alabama Institute of Medicine has been revealed: Chris Drummond. (Think coal).

He's the youngest of seven children of coal magnate, Garry Neal Drummond, CEO of Drummond Company, one of the world's largest private companies.

His name was revealed to AL.com just ahead of a big fund-raising gala this evening at WorkPlay.

The big reveal was inevitable as it is disclosed in a new book by Tory Williams, co-founder of the private, nonprofit company which received the donation. She was unpacking boxes of the book at WorkPlay today to give away to the 176 guests at the sold-out event. The gala features entertainer Taylor Hicks. The moderator is Peter Wilderotter, president and CEO of the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation.

The 28-year-old Drummond is introverted and has reluctantly agreed to be named, Williams said.

But she said Drummond is excited about the potential that stem cell research both medically and economically for Alabama and hopes his donation will inspire others to give.

Willilams met Drummond through her husband, Ron Williams, a medical sales manager with Stryker Orthopaedics. The couple invited Drummond to go with them, along with AIM co-founder Roman Reed, to the 2013 World Stem Cell Summit in California.

"He [Drummond] was blown away," Williams said.

Drummond's million-dollar donation last March kick-started the Alabama nonprofit, which immediately funded three projects at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. For details go here.

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Fibroblast Growth Factor FGF & Stem Cells 360p – Video

Posted: September 21, 2014 at 2:45 pm


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Bone paste could provide treatment for ostoeporosis

Posted: September 21, 2014 at 2:45 pm

About three million Briton currently suffer osteoporosis which is affected by a number factors such as genes, a lack of exercise and poor diet and results in about 60,000 hip, 50,000 wrist and 120,000 spinal fractures every year, according to the National Osteoporosis Society, costing about 1.7 billion in health and social care.

Dr Ifty Ahmed, a researcher at Nottingham University, said his team wanted to provide a preventative treatment, strengthening the bones of those at risk before they suffered a fracture.

Speaking at the Regener8 conference on regenerative medicine, in Leeds last week, he said: Our aim would be to use screening to spot people who are at risk, then strengthen their bones before they get fractures.

It means that rather than waiting until people have a fall and break something, we would try to stop that ever happening, along with the consequences, loss of independence, surgery and secondary illnesses.

Previous attempts have been made to find ways of strengthening thinning bones but the difficulties of protecting the fragile stem cells has meant no such treatments have yet been developed.

Dr Ahmeds team hope to overcome this problem by puncturing the tiny hollow spheres of calcium phosphate allowing the stem cells to migrate inside them where they are protected.

The experimental treatment has not yet been trialled on humans.

It would involve extracting stem cells from a patients bone marrow and mixing them with the microspheres before injecting the paste into the vulnerable bones.

Dr Ahmed said: "If it works, this kind of treatment could be done in a day.

Until now the team have been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council but they are now looking for a commercial partner.

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Daniel Kraft Interview – Singularity University – C100 CEO Summit – Video

Posted: September 21, 2014 at 1:41 pm


Daniel Kraft Interview - Singularity University - C100 CEO Summit
Daniel Kraft shows off his mini-me and talks about 3d printing organs and other body parts using stem cells with Daniel Kraft at Rosewood Sand Hill.

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Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) & Stem Cell Research: Ophir Klein, UCSF – Video

Posted: September 21, 2014 at 1:41 pm


Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Stem Cell Research: Ophir Klein, UCSF

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Philadelphia Pennsylvania Stem Cell Research …

Posted: September 21, 2014 at 2:58 am

Philadelphia PA Stem Cell Research is a complex and beneficial science using stem cells in a lab environment to better understand how normal human development works, and also to look for and develop new treatments for a wide range of human ailments. Philadelphia Pennsylvania Stem Cell Research involves two types of stem cells, classified as either embryonic stem cells or adult stem cells, which are used according to the type of Philadelphia PA Stem Cell Research that is desired.

Embryonic stem cells are derived from pre-embryos, called blstocysts, approximately three to five days old. They are created specifically for fertilization treatments in the Philadelphia Pennsylvania Stem Cell Research lab, will not be used to start a pregnancy, and will be discarded if not used for research. Doctors use in-vitro fertilization to create an embryo in a culture dish, which after three to five days becomes a blstocysts. Philadelphia PA Stem Cell Research lab technicians then extract the inner cell mass from the blstocysts, which is used to derive embryonic stem cells in the Philadelphia Pennsylvania Stem Cell Research facility.Embryonic stem cells are classified as pluripotent.

This means they can develop into any type of cell in a fully developed human body. It should be noted that embryonic stem cells cant develop into placenta or umbilical cord tissues, but they do appear to be able to develop into any other type of cell in a human body. What is so important about embryonic Philadelphia PA Stem Cell Research is that it enables very flexible research, as the stem cells can be grown into any type of cell needing to be researched, at any time, at the Philadelphia Pennsylvania Stem Cell Research facility. This makes for more efficient and more productive stem call research, promising a faster path to cures for ailments that devastate humanity. Philadelphia PA Stem Cell Research cannot use adult stem cells to generate just any desired tissues since they are already programmed. They are quite useful nonetheless, and Philadelphia Pennsylvania Stem Cell Research doctors have identified caches of adult stem cells in several tissues of the human body.

Philadelphia PA Stem Cell Research in general has been able to make some wonderful advancement and create excellent treatments using adult stem cells. But there are limitations to doing Philadelphia Pennsylvania Stem Cell Research using "only" adult stem cells. Adult stem cells are able to give rise to related kinds of cells in their home tissues, but for example Kidney stem cells cannot generate heart cells, and liver stem cells cannot generate brain cells.

A great deal of Philadelphia PA Stem Cell Research remains to be done, and at this point Philadelphia Pennsylvania Stem Cell Research doctors have developed a technique for getting an adult stem cell to behave similar to an embryonic stem cell. This specialized Philadelphia PA Stem Cell Research technique creates what are called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS). They can be produced from adult cells in skin, fatty tissue, and other sources. With this, Philadelphia Pennsylvania Stem Cell Research remains a promising field. There is of course a great deal more work to do, but Philadelphia PA Stem Cell Research promises to benefit mankind in many profound ways.

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Pevonia Stem Cells Phyto-Elite Line Review + Giveaway – Video

Posted: September 20, 2014 at 11:40 pm


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Fibroblast Growth Factor FGF & Stem Cells 360p – Video

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Will This New Stem Cell Treatment End The Controversy? – Video

Posted: September 20, 2014 at 11:40 pm


Will This New Stem Cell Treatment End The Controversy?
Embryonic stem cells are pluripotent, meaning they can become almost any type of cell. Since stem cell research is so controversial, researchers might have found a more ethical way to use stem...

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