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Stem cell survival could help treat bones

Helping certain stem cells survive transplantation and aging could...transplants that focus on hematopoietic stem cells, which produce red and white blood cells, transplants of mesenchymal stem cells, which can produce bone-building...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/health/2013-03-05/stem-cell-survival-could-hel
A's starter Bartolo Colon suspended 50 games for testing positive for testosterone

...statement.Colon has credited a stem-cell procedure two years ago for saving...career. He had fat and bone marrow stem cells collected and injected into his troublesome...all that."Colon has credited a stem-cell procedure two years ago for saving...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/baseball/2012-08-22/starter-bartolo-colon-su
Nobel prize to Briton, Japanese for stem cell work

...the body can be reprogrammed into stem cells, which then can turn into any kind...ethical dilemma posed by embryonic stem cells.In announcing the 8 million kronor...were the equivalent of embryonic stem cells, which had been embroiled in controversy...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/health/2012-10-08/nobel-prize-briton-japanese-
Frenchman, American win Nobel for quantum physics

...The physics prize was the second of the 2012 Nobel Prizes to be announced, with the medicine award going Monday to stem cell pioneers John Gurdon of Britain and Japan's Shinya Yamanaka. Each award is worth 8 million kronor, or about $1...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/world/2012-10-09/frenchman-american-win-nobel-
Retired sheriff's captain Donnie Chavous remembered as dedicated officer

...diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma the first time, which he battled with chemotherapy. Three years ago he underwent a stem cell transplant after finding out he had bone marrow cancer. Finally, one week before he retired, he found out he had leukemia...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2012-10-22/retired-police-captain
Bishops start freedom campaign

...Catholic Bishops, in an e-book released for the Fortnight effort.Among the examples he cites are approval for embryonic stem cell research, legal justification for torturing prisoners and support for same-sex marriage."We can see that there is a...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/life/your-faith/2012-06-22/bishops-start-freedom-ca
Potential arthritis drug might also aid bone growth

...zipper that appeared to be the way the drug was inhibiting inflammation. By that inhibition, it was also promoting stem cells to become bone-forming cells and promote bone growth."This is really interesting because most people believe glucocorticoids...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/health/2012-07-24/potential-arthritis-drug-mig
Former US Sen. Arlen Specter dies

...general of the CIA.As a senior member of the powerful Appropriations Committee, Specter pushed for increased funding for stem-cell research, breast cancer and Alzheimer's disease, and supported several labor-backed initiatives in a GOP-led...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2012-10-14/former-us-sen-arlen-specter-dies
Voting your faith in 2012: Social justice, abortion and apples

...the common good via intrinsically evil acts of abortion, euthanasia, homosexual marriage, human cloning and embryonic stem cell research. Those actions violate not only Catholic beliefs but also the natural law written by God on the hearts of every...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/opinion-columns/2012-11-04/voting-your-fait
Faster, cheaper gene sequencing points to greater cancer understanding, GHSU researchers say

...that is also involved in persuading undifferentiated stem cells to turn into other kinds of cells."Every time you...that might induce DNA damage and cause a mutation in a stem cell that could turn it into cancer, the new p53 variant...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/health/2012-11-09/faster-cheaper-gene-sequenci