Can routine commercial cord blood banking be scientifically and ethically justified?
...wn as an autologous transplant). Is such private banking scientifically and ethically justifiable? A debate in this month's PLoS Medicine looks at both sides of the commercial cord blood controversy. Nicholas M. Fisk, Professor of Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine, and Irene A. G. Roberts, Professor of P...Researchers describe how human blood stem cells transform themselves to repair injured animal hearts
... human stem cells (taken from cells left over from banking human blood.) They found that in the treated mice, new cardiac myocytes had developed at the edge of damaged tissue, and several layers of new blood vessel tissue had also grown. In this study, Yeh wanted to find out how these new cells were formed,...Preliminary study finds stem cells in blood restore damaged heart muscle
...s generally regarded as debris from the process of banking human red blood. (After blood is collected from volunteers, it is separated into white and red blood cells, and the white blood cells are usually thrown away.) The scientists collected white blood cells and then searched for those cells that express ...OHSU chemoprotectant technology licensed for biotechnology development
...LLC, a New York-based venture capital and merchant banking firm specializing in the bio-pharmaceutical industry. The agreement grants the exclusive right to Oxiquant to develop and market technology aimed at preventing adverse side effects linked to chemotherapy developed in the laboratory of Ed Neuwelt, M....The future of research into Parkinsons disease and tissue banking
...kinson's Disease Research and The future of tissue banking for research in a 'century of the brain'. Journali...decoding of the human genome. The future of tissue banking for research in a 'century of the brain' will discuss the traditional methods involved in tissue ban...Bangladesh flood and drought forecasting could bring farmers, cholera victims relief
...electric power, fuels, water storage, and even the banking industry, Grossman said. "Bangladesh farmers understand the concept of probabilities and do what they can to minimize risk," said Grossman. "We want to work with individual farmers and be able to quantify that our forecasting scheme has a positive ...New research shows workplace homicides more likely at smaller businesses open late, Saturdays
...axis and 11 in manufacturing. The rest occurred in banking and real estate, business services and entertainment and recreation. Researchers also interviewed business owners, police and others. Relative to those in other locations, workplaces located in shopping centers or malls had about half the risk of exp...Should banks be liable for pollution caused by companies that borrow from them?
...urts and, according to the team's survey of the UK banking sector, banks are a little concerned that they cou... be designed carefully. The competitiveness of the banking sector is an important consideration in that design and harmonising environmental liability regimes ...13 lifelines successfully used in unique umbilical cord blood transplant into ailing adult
... one of the nation's foremost umbilical cord blood banking facilities,located in Philadelphia has successfull...se by the family storing the blood, or in a public banking facility.In their three years of operation, CorCell has seen a dramatic increase inumbilical cord bl...