French Doctors Using Red Blood Cells Created From Stem Cells

From: http://www.youtube.com September 03, 2011 - French researchers say they have successfully injected red blood cells produced from stem cells into a patient for the first time. It is seen as a step towards a long-term goal of producing blood in large quantities. For now donors are still in demand: their numbers are declining despite an ever-increasing need for blood transfusions....

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Stem Cells: Fulfilling the Promise – 2011 CIRM Grantee Meeting

*Please note: this video contains graphic images of a disfiguring disease John Wagner presented the closing scientific talk at the 2011 CIRM Grantee Meeting. Weaving together stories of medical history, literature, bioethics, and his own clinical work, Wagner describes the challenges and promise of stem cell based therapies. Dr.

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Professors Chandran and ffrench-constant – Are stem cells the future of regenerative medicine?

Professor Siddharthan Chandran is Director of the Euan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neurone Disease Research at the University of Edinburgh. Professor Charles ffrench-Constant is Chair of Medical Neurology at the Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh.

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