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Celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal is the favourite to cook the $A250,000 hamburger made from stem cells. THE world's first hamburger made with a synthetic meat protein derived from bovine stem cells will be publicly consumed this October after being prepa
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Todd Finkelmeyer has been covering higher education for the Capital Times since April 2008. He started contributing to the newspaper in 1990, was hired full-time in 1994 and has since covered everything from the Super Bowl to stem cell research. Follow h
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Firefighter James Wildes, 37, of Engine 162 on Staten Island, with the recipient of his life-saving stem cell donation, six-year-old Alise Mareerose Williams of Evansdale, Iowa, and her family. Both attended the New York Blood Center's "Honor... View Photo »
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In addition, even though we are conducting a safety trial, the early clinical follow-up of the patients treated with the stem cells shows indications of beneficial clinical effects, such as an improvement in breathing and swallowing ability as well as in muscular power.
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The world's first "test-tube" meat, a hamburger made from a cow's stem cells, will be produced this fall, Dutch scientist Mark Post told a major science conference. Post's aim is to invent an efficient way to produce skeletal muscle tissue in a laborator
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"In October we are going to provide a proof of concept showing out of stem cells we can make a product that looks, feels and hopefully tastes like meat," says Dr. Post, who explains that although the process could be done without slaughtering any cows, h
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Veterinarian James Kelley gets ready to operate on Boris to remove fat tissue that contains stem cells Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011 at Kelley's Animal Clinic in Walker, Mich. Stem cells and plasma were injected into the dog's hip and knee joints. Owner Paul... View Photo »
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We identified about 400 proteins that respond differently after injury and after grafting with neural stem cells ... When we grouped them using a state-of-the-art Internet database, we found that a group of cytoskeleton proteins was being changed, and in particular one called alpha-smooth muscle actin, ...
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Scientists Want The 5th Best Chef In The World To Cook Their Test-Tube Hamburger
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But there are two things missing. First: the cow. The FT's Clive Cookson offers this appetizing description of what Post's project: "Starting with bovine stem cells, the Dutch researchers have grown muscle fibres up to 3cm long and 0.5mm thick. The fibre
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Test tube hamburger meat will be ready for a taste test in October, say scientists at the Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Scientists announced that they used stem cells to perfect a method of growing hamburger meat, and that ultimately what the
About Stem Cells
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Stem cells are cells found in most, if not all, multi-cellular organisms. They are characterized by the ability to renew themselves through mitotic cell division and differentiating into a diverse range of specialized cell types. Research in the stem cell field grew out of findings by Canadian scientists Ernest A. McCulloch and James E. Till in... Full Article
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