AUSTRALIAN stem cell scientists, among the world’s pioneers in the development of artificial blood, warn it will be a while yet before donors are no longer needed at the blood bank.

Patients with chronic heart failure given injections of their own bone marrow stem cells have better heart function and live longer

How should clinics that treat patients with injections of their own stem cells be regulated? That question is about to test the jurisdiction of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Herald Sun: 23 August 2010
Australian Financial Review 23 August 2010
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PLoS One
A Combined Epigenetic and Non-Genetic Approach for Reprogramming Human Somatic Cells,
Jinnuo Han, Perminder S. Sachdev, Kuldip S. Sidhu*
Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
UNSW Stem Cell Lab

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