stem cell news 120101-08

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0 E; w! h8 K2 |& g! h"The development of an unlimited quantity of the cells would hold wide potential for healing damaged tissue. It's true that the research is currently focused on animals, but we already have methods to grow these cells so they would also be suitable later on for implantation into humans."--Dr. Joseph Itzkowitz-Eldor from Rambam Medical Center in Haifa and the Technion medical school.8 W! Y3 z' p" B* g( Y

+ S8 d! Z4 V- r& ]3 u+ l9 ^# A“The market remains skeptical of the commercial potential for stem cell therapeutics. The market has yet to assign a winner in the stem cell horserace due to the fact that no company has commercialized a big winner.” --Zacks Investment Research analyst Jason Napodano.
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: q* B1 u' \" c4 n' W+ n0 [“While in the past, people have often spoken of proteins in the cell nucleus as a function of stem cell regulation, our study focuses on a different area. E-cadherin is a protein on the cell surface that is very important for the survival and cell growth.”--Scripps Research Associate Professor Sheng Ding.
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2 D3 _7 D, x) k% j) X, \"It's always been the paradigm in stem cell biology that all that was needed was the signaling from the niche cells to maintain the progenitor population. Now, we've shown that you also need the signals from the daughter cells to help maintain the progenitor cell population."--Utpal Banerjee, Broad center researcher and the Irving and Jean Stone Professor and chairman of molecular, cell and developmental biology in Life Sciences.& c6 a0 N' b; W0 ?
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"People who don't like us tend to be embryotic researchers. Their projects are getting cut left and right because of safety reasons. Without a doubt, they're very protective of their field and that's why we don't bother them at all."-- Celltex vice president Donna Lee.' N4 P2 e/ y& X! F8 s2 T
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“The answer to that question begins with the fact that errors, not fabrications, were made in assembling figures for these manuscripts. I am likely the one who made these errors.”--Lead author of retracted paper, Shane R. Mayack, a researcher who worked in Wagers’ laboratory.
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"For too long, patients and families have suffered from debilitating, incurable diseases and we know that stem cell research offers hope to millions of Americans across the country. I am committed to supporting responsible stem cell research now, and in the future...To compete for the jobs and industries of our time, we have to make America the best place on earth to do business and out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world. I have called for a level of research and development we haven't seen since the height of the Space Race and sent budgets to Congress that helps us meet that goal."--President Obama.) L% a5 }7 H, x
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“Getting an egg out of a woman is not like going to the chicken coop and getting an egg. It is not a completely risk-free endeavor.”--Raymond De Vries, a social scientist and a professor of bioethics at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor.- S0 W, O9 _$ L5 X2 D( s! k& P) D
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