Stem Cell Research and News: Utah
<-- Back To RegionsRegenerating Worms Help Elucidate Stem Cell Biology
Using a tiny flatworm best known for its extraordinary ability to regenerate lost tissue, researchers have identified a gene that controls the ability of stem cells to differentiate into specialized cells. The gene encodes a protein that is most similar...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on December 11, 2005 05:42 PM
Schwarzenegger, Feinstein and Villaraigosa Fight for Stem Cell Research
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, joined with patients, advocates and scientists have united last week to protect California’s stem cell research initiative from threat in Washington. They were joined at...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on August 30, 2005 01:07 PM
Researchers Find Key Process In Gene Regulation Occurs In Blood Platelets
In a discovery that upends a longstanding tenet of human biology, University of Utah School of Medicine researchers have shown that a key process in gene regulation can occur in human platelets, unique cells that are unusual because they don't...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on August 16, 2005 05:36 PM
Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act of 2005 (HR-2520) Passes the House of Representatives
RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif., May 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ThermoGenesis Corp. (Nasdaq: KOOL) announced today that HR-2520, the "Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act of 2005" was passed by virtually unanimous decision by the House of Representatives. This Bill amends the Public...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on May 30, 2005 11:27 AM
Sen. Sam Brownback Visits National Cord Blood Program, Meeting Cord Blood Recipients and Continuing His Support for A National Cord Blood Stem Cell Bank Network
NEW YORK, May 16 -- Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) toured New York Blood Center's National Cord Blood Program and met with cord blood transplant recipients Jaclyn Albanese and Stephen Sprague as a lead co-sponsor of the Cord Blood Stem Cell...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on May 18, 2005 12:06 PM
New GOP Poll and Ad Campaign Boost Republican Main Street Partnership Support for Expanded Federal Stem Cell Policy
WASHINGTON, May 11 -- Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) joined the Republican Main Street Partnership today to unveil new national polling results showing strong Republican voter support for expanded embryonic stem cell research by a margin of 55 to 38 percent....
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on May 12, 2005 02:59 PM
Researchers Feed Planarians RNA, Identify Regeneration Genes
May 2, 2005 -- University of Utah researchers—feeding microscopic pills of RNA to quarter-inch long worms called planarians—have identified many genes essential to understanding a biological mystery that has captivated scientists for hundreds of years: regeneration. In pinpointing the genes,...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on May 2, 2005 10:03 PM
Report Proposes Structure for National Network of Cord Blood Stem Cell Banks
WASHINGTON -- To achieve a more cohesive national system for storing and distributing lifesaving stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services should establish a new National Cord Blood Policy Board to set...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on April 15, 2005 02:53 PM
N.Y. Blood Center Scientists and Cord Blood Transplant Recipients Cured of Leukemia and Sickle Cell Disease Call for Passage of Cord Blood Stem Cell Act; Photo Available
WASHINGTON, April 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Marking another milestone in New York Blood Center's (NYBC) continuing mission to save lives, NYBC President/CEO, Robert L. Jones, M.D. and National Cord Blood Program Director, Pablo Rubinstein, M.D., were joined today by Sen....
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on April 5, 2005 12:12 AM
Scientists, Cord Blood Transplant Recipients Call on Senate to Pass S681 Establishing National Cord Blood Stem Cell Bank Network; Bill Would Create More Options for Critically Ill Patients
WASHINGTON, April 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- New York Blood Center's (NYBC) President and CEO, Robert L. Jones, M.D., its National Cord Blood Program Director, Pablo Rubinstein, M.D., cord blood transplant recipients, will join Senator Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) -- a...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on April 2, 2005 12:07 AM
Legislation to Create a National Inventory of 150,000 Cord Blood Stem Cell Units Introduced in the Senate (S-681) and House (H.R. 596)
RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif., March 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ThermoGenesis Corp. (Nasdaq: KOOL) announced today that S-681 titled "Cord Blood Stem Cell Act of 2005" was introduced on March 17, 2005 in the Senate "to establish a National Cord Blood Stem Cell...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on March 22, 2005 04:51 PM
US Congress Bill Presented For the Creation of a Stem Cell Bank
ThermoGenesis Corp. said this past Monday that five U.S. senators have together introduced a bill to create a national bank of stem cells collected from the blood in umbilical cords. The creation of this cord blood bank has been one...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on March 22, 2005 11:18 AM
Orrin Hatch "embryos created in a petri dish are not people"
U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch, who holds staunch anti-abortion views, offered some explanation Friday about his position as an outspoken supporter of expanding federal funding for stem cell research. "I believe that life begins in a mother's womb, not in a...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on February 26, 2005 08:05 PM
Utah: Sen. Orin Hatch Concerned With Utah Falling Behind
U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch told the State House Tuesday that Utah can't afford to fall behind other states in embryonic stem cell research. Knowing he was addressing some Republicans "who disagree with me," Hatch, R-Utah, said he had studied the...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on February 24, 2005 03:19 PM
House Senate Ask for Further Research on Embryonic Stem Cells
Bills that were introduced in both the House and Senate on Wednesday call for President Bush to expand research on embryos, by allowing federal funding of cell lines derived from "excess fertilized eggs." These eggs would be donated by fertility...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on February 16, 2005 10:36 PM