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MIT creates 3-D scaffold for growing stem cells

Stem cells grew, multiplied and differentiated into brain cells on a new three-dimensional scaffold of tiny protein fragments designed to be more like a living body than any other cell culture system.

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1. MIT creates 3D scaffold for growing stem cells
   12-27-2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
   An MIT engineer and colleagues report that stem cells grew, multiplied and differentiated into brain cells on their new three-dimensional scaffold of tiny protein fragments designed to be more like a living body than any other cell culture system.
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2. Team finds way to create cancer stem cells
   08-13-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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3. First human trial tests stem-cell-based treatment for heart attacks
   03-25-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Previous research on the efficacy of stem cell therapy for heart repair has shown possible benefit from mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) -- cells found in bone marrow that create connective tissue, bone and cartilage. A study presented today at the American College of Cardiology's Innovation in Intervention: i2 Summit reveals the results of the first human trial using MSCs for the treatment of myocardial infarction (MI, or heart attack).
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4. Widespread support for nonembryonic stem cell research, VCU Life Sciences Survey shows
   12-19-2007 · EurekAlert!
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5. Team creates stem cells without destroying embryos
   06-06-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
   Scientists have created embryonic stem cells in mice without destroying embryos in the process, potentially removing controversy over work in this field. The work was led by Rudolf Jaenisch, MIT professor of biology and a member of the Whitehead Institute.
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6. MIT technique reveals inner lives of red blood cells
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7. Scientists unlock mystery of embryonic stem cell signaling pathway
   03-19-2007 · EurekAlert!
   A newly discovered small molecule called IQ-1 plays a key role in preventing embryonic stem cells from differentiating into one or more specific cell types, allowing them to instead continue growing and dividing indefinitely, according to research performed by a team of scientists who have recently joined the stem-cell research efforts at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California.
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8. Putting stem cell research on the fast track
   09-12-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Engineers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed tools to help solve two of the main problems slowing the progress of stem cell research -- how to quickly test stem cell response to different drugs or genes, and how to create a large supply of healthy, viable stem cells to study from only a few available cells.
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9. Cell growth technology promises more successful drug development
   09-18-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Scientists have developed unique technology to grow stem cells and other tissue in the laboratory in conditions similar to the way they grow in the human body. The technology, developed and patented by scientists at Durham University, UK, and its spin-out company ReInnervate Limited, is a plastic scaffold which allows cells to be grown in a more realistic three-dimensional form compared to the traditional flat surface of a Petri dish.
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10. Stem cell transplant can grow new immune system in certain mice, Stanford researchers find
    11-22-2007 · EurekAlert!
    Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have taken a small but significant step, in mouse studies, toward the goal of transplanting adult stem cells to create a new immune system for people with autoimmune or genetic blood diseases.
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