Biomedical Engineering researchers at WPI are creating new, engineered heart muscle tissue from adult stem cells. Their groundbreaking discoveries could lead to the repair of damaged hearts in some patients.

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This study was published in Exp Cell Res. 313:698-706, 2007. The tilte of this study is "Single-cell-derived mesenchymal stem cells overexpressing Csx/Nkx2.5 and GATA4 undergo the stochastic cardiomyogenic fate and behave like transient amplifying cells" by Yamada Y, Sakurada K, Takeda Y, Gojo S, Umezawa A

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Mouse GEN cells overexpressing Csx/Nkx2.5 and GATA4 behave like transient amplifying cells

Overview and Profile Axiogenesis is an innovative and productive biotechnology company located in Cologne, Germany. Its primary focus is to develop novel assays that use differentiated embryonic stem cell (ES) and induced pluripotent stem cell (iPS) derived cell types that display normal physiological behavior

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Stem Cell Research: Beyond Hype, Real Hope by the Family Research Council (www.frc.org). This public domain film is consistent with the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, which state that the ablation of the inner cell mass (ICM) of the blastocyst, which critically and irremediably damages the human embryo, curtailing its development, is a gravely immoral act and consequently is gravely illicit.

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Adult Stem Cell vs Embryonic Stem Cell Research Ethics Video

Marrow-derived human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) have short proliferative longevity, compared with embryonic stem cells, and thus, important challenge in regenerative medicine is to improve the replicative capacity of human hMSCs. The life span of hMSCs have successfully been prolonged by bmi-1, which reduces p16INK4a expression and is essential for self-renewal of hematopoietic stem cells.

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Cadiomyogenesis of human mesenchymal stem cells

A major challenge in developing stem cell-based cures for disease is maturing those cells into adult cell types that can be used for transplantation or to study human disease. Dr.

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Mark Mercola: Differentiating embryonic stem cells into adult tissues

Dr Shunichiro Miyoshi established a line of endometrium-derived mesenchymal cells (EMCs) with a life span prolonged by a cell-cycle mediated gene.

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Cardiomyocytic differentiation of endometrial stem cells.

Medicenter is the only Stem Cell Therapy clinic in Guatemala, Central America ( south of Mexico and 2hrs from Miami), which offers: • Treatments for benign and malignant diseases caused by different indications • State-of-the-art cryostorage technology. • Affordable treatment protocols for our patients and their families. Stem Cells can be obtained through three different sources: 1.Bone marrow 2.Umbilical cord blood 3.Peripheral blood

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Affordable Stem Cell Therapy in Guatemala (2hrs from Miami)

This is an updated video showing my dad's stem cell transplant and time spent at Texas Heart Institute. In October 2005 my father, Kevin Johnson, was diagnosed with idopathic cardiomyopathy.

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Kevin's 2 Heart Transplants and Stem Cell Transplant

C'elle's exclusive and revolutionary service provides women with the unique opportunity to collect and preserve vital stem cells that can be harvested from the body's menstrual fluid during the menstrual cycle.

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Breakthrough in Stem cell technology

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Cardiomyocytes derived from mouse Embryonic stem cells

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Immune Control of Stem Cell Mobilization

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stem cell derived cardiomyocytes

These beating cardiac myocytes (heart cells) were grown from mouse embryonic stem cells. This movie is shown in real time

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Stem Cells: Heart cells grown from mouse stem cells

Patients with heart failure have stem cell injections in the US with success.

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Patel Stem Cell Heart Failure

Zannos Grekos, MD speaks about Emerging Frontier in Cardiac and Vascular Treatment: Turning Adult Stem Cells into Medicine at the 16th A4M Conference in Las Vegas. Item #A4M083D2-10

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Turning Adult Stem Cells into Medicine - Zannos Grekos, MD

These embryonic stem cells in a lab dish form beating heart tissue. CIRM grantees are working to develop new therapies for heart disease based on these cells.

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Valentine's Day Stem Cell Wish: Mending Broken Hearts

Company Overview Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. (OTCBB:ACTC -- News) is a biotechnology company that specializes in the development of cellular therapies for the treatment of rare and common diseases that impact millions of people worldwide. The company applies stem cell-based technologies and other proprietary methods in the area of regenerative medicine to bring patient-specific therapies from the lab to the bedside

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