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"The transformation of adult stem cells into more 'embryonic-like' cells is quite important," he said. "It will allow scientists to discover ways where we might be able to eradicate certain diseases. But at the same time it will provide a platform where more cellular re-engineering could take place. This means these cells can potentially create organs and improve the lives of patients.”--Dr. Manny Alvarez, senior managing health editor of FoxNews.com.
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"We rarely use the 'C word' -- cure -- but the intent of research today is not to study (cancer) but to treat and ultimately to beat it...There is so much hope that we're positioned today with the information from the (human) genome, with the biologic expertise and understanding of the stem cells, I think we can be at the vanguard of treatments that hopefully will lead toward not just longer, disease-free survival but quite literally cures. That's the hope of the cancer stem cell approach."--Jeffrey Trent, president and director of the Grand Rapids-based Van Andel Institute.+ i1 I- }9 J1 ~& G( y8 [0 @% j

' B/ X0 r% V( ?( _4 Z& y, |"Menstrual blood offers an adult stem cell alternative that circumvents the ethical and logistical limitations of embryonic stem cells. And their retrieval offers greater ease, and with a wider window of opportunity for harvest than other adult stem cells."--Dr. Cesar Borlongan, a neurologist at the University of South Florida.
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"As stem cell therapies are developed for treating maladies that have yet to be successfully addressed by traditional methods, patients and doctors will become more reliant on stem cells readily available for use. Our company believes this future need for stem cells will result in a widespread increase in stem cell banking and that demand for banking of bone marrow, endometrial and adipose (fat) derived stem cells will exceed the demand for cord blood banking."--David Koos, Bio-Matrix Scientific Group Inc. Chairman & CEO.
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% b/ Z: @4 @6 [# R2 b"It's becoming a bigger deal every year. This year, there is an exceptional group of national and international scientists who will be attending. But it doesn't just allow scientists to talk to each other, it allows us to talk to the pharmaceutical community, too, to find out what they need from us."--Dr. Eva Feldman of A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute.
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"There have been many cosmetics, nutraceuticals, and device makers who claim either to use stem cells in their products, or to use ingredients that activate the customer's own stem cells. To the best of my knowledge, none of these has a basis in scientific evidence."--Doug Sipp, Head of the Science Policy and Ethics Study Unit at the Center for Developmental Biology of RIKEN in Kobe, Japan.2 `& O  G% c3 ~

8 D% ?$ g( N1 ]) k2 O; w' j"Stem cells have incredible potential. But nobody knows exactly what they can do. So they're marketed to do everything. In time, maybe a decade from now, science will tell the real story, but until then, marketing regarding stem cell face lifts should be considered fiction."--Michael McGuire, president of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.! g/ _8 s/ P  u- i0 c
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"Our stem cell research is application-driven. If you want to make stem cell therapies feasible, affordable and reproducible, we know you have to overcome a few hurdles. Part of the problem in our health care industry is that you have a treatment, but it often costs too much. In the case of stem cell treatments, isolating stem cells is very expensive. The cells we have engineered grow continuously in the laboratory, which brings down the price of treatments."--Techung Lee, PhD, UB associate professor of biochemistry and biomedical engineering in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
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"Our research has, for the first time, successfully demonstrated that physical forces created by elasticity play a key role in blood-forming cell growth and may mimic the environment of stem cells inside our body. What we've discovered is that blood-forming stem cells like it to be super stretchy because, like a cat on a sofa, they like to pull on their environment."--Professor John Rasko of the Sydney-based Centenary Institute.
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