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Scientists at Newcastle University have created part-human, part-animal hybrid embryos for the first time in the UK, the BBC can reveal.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7323298.stm

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Government advisors meet this week to discuss designs for embryonic stem cell human experiments.


http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/08/news...ion=2008041016

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A unique partnership between industry and academia has led to human clinical trials of a new drug for a rare class of blood diseases called myeloproliferative disorders (MPD), which are all driven by the same genetic mutation and can evolve into leukemia.
http://www.stemcellresearchnews.com/...asp?a=1173&z=9

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New York, N.Y.-based Pluristem Therapeutics Inc. (PSTI) said on April 7 that the results from an additional pre-clinical study using the company?s proprietary PLacental eXpanded (PLX) cells in treating ischemic stroke showed statistical significance using functional and anatomical endpoints.

http://www.stemcellresearchnews.com/...sp?a=1176&z=10

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The Respiratory BRU will take the form of an Advanced Lung Disease Unit which will provide clinical core facilities to speed up translation of current therapies into benefits for patients, create six new Consortia in key advanced lung diseases to produce a significant step-change in future research capacity, and focus translational research towards the common endpoint of these advanced lung diseases, namely chronic lung failure. The six new Consortia are: severe COPD; asthma; chronic suppurative lung disease; sleep medicine; acute respiratory failure; and interstitial lung disease.

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandev...4?newsid=33354