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Dental stem cell bank opens in Mumbai

Last Updated: Friday, September 10, 2010, 22:31

In a first, an Indian company has partnered with a French institute to set up a bank for dental stem cells, which can be used for various therapeutic applications.

Embryonic stem cell funding allowed - for now

Last Updated: Friday, September 10, 2010, 18:37

The govt may resume funding of embryonic stem cell research for now.

ICMR to set up panel to regulate stem cell research

Last Updated: Sunday, February 21, 2010, 17:57

Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) will set up the much awaited National Apex Committee, a body to regulate the scientific community on the crucial health research of stem cell therapy by April.

Software that predicts stem cell fate created

Last Updated: Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 19:26

An engineer at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has developed a software program that predict the types of specialized cells a stem cell will produce, but also foresee the outcome before the stem cell even divides.

US candidate not sorry for likening stem cell work to Nazi tests

Last Updated: Saturday, February 13, 2010, 10:00

A Republican candidate for a US Senate seat in Arkansas says he sees no need to apologise for comparing stem cell research to Nazi experiments on Jews during the Holocaust.

Skin cells transformed directly to nerve in study

Last Updated: Thursday, January 28, 2010, 00:12

Researchers have transformed ordinary mouse skin cells directly into neurons, bypassing the need for stem cells or even stemlike cells and greatly speeding up the field of regenerative medicine.

Dasmunsi back in India after stem cell therapy in brain

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 22:24

Former union minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi has come back to India after undergoing stereotactic brain surgery using stem cells in Germany, a doctor who attended on him said on Wednesday.

Now stem cell banking affordable in India

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 13, 2009, 21:32

Stem cell banking will now be less expensive as a prominent Chennai-based company has come up with affordable prices for its services.