Jonathan Thomas, CIRM governing board chair, sits down with CIRM at the World Stem Cell Summit booth to talk about what he wants all attendees to learn about CIRM at the meeting. The agency has 44 projects in 26 diseases in various stages of working toward clinical trials.

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Jonathan Thomas: What everyone at the World Stem Cell Summit should know about CIRM

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A short film about three spinal cord injury patients who share their stories of tragedy, hope and recovery following stem cell treatments for spinal cord injury at the Stem Cell Institute in Panama City, Panama. See them demonstrate their improvements by lifting themselves up, standing and even walking.

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The Spinal Cord Journey - Stem cell therapy stories from three spinal cord injury patients

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metromd.net Stem Cell Therapy for Repairing Joint Injuries | Stem Cell Therapy is effective in many orthopedic applications.

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Repair Your Joint Injuries With Stem Cell Therapy | Los Angeles | Beverly Hills | Hollywood

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Beating Heart Cells: Induced pluripotent stem cells from adults, not embryos, are converted into beating heart cells and used for research at The Medical College of Wisconsin by John Lough, Ph.D. and Ulrich Broeckel, MD

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Beating Heart Stem Cells

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Learn more at http://www.invitrogen.com Cytotune™ iPS Reprogramming kit from Invitrogen™ transforms stem cell reprogramming technology by providing a high efficiency, non-integrating, single application solution.

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Cell Reprogramming Transformed

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Gordon B. Mills, MD, PhD, chairman, Department of Systems Biology, chief, Section of Molecular Therapeutics, Professor of Medicine and Immunology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, explains that the management of cancer is shifting towards personalized care

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Dr. Mills Discusses Shifts Towards Personalized Medicine

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Monique C5 Quadriplegic spinal cord injury Pacer gait walker by Rifton April 2011

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http://www.cshl.edu Christopher Vakoc CSHL Fellow MD, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 2007 Chromatin; epigenetics; acute myeloid leukemia; self-renewal; RNAi screening; mouse models of cancer email vakoc@cshl.edu, phone (516) 367-5045 Cancer cells are characterized by altered chromatin landscapes and commonly exploit epigenetic regulators to maintain oncogenic transcriptional programs.

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CSHL's Chris Vakoc on Leukemia Research

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VA has launched a new study into gene by asking Veterans to provide their DNA (voluntarily, of course) so they can provide better care for Veterans and the population at large.

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VA Collecting DNA From Veterans For 'Gene' Research

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Dr Gene Sharp, Senior Scholar, Albert Einstein Institution

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We the people - Dr Gene Sharp at Zeitgeist Americas 2011

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In the summer of 2011, the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) co-sponsored a one week, Continuing Medical Education workshop on evolutionary biology for medical practitioners and clinicians. The workshop was held at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. Find an abstract of this talk at: my.mdibl.org Read more at: http://www.mdibl.org Videos filmed by Sam Ellison.

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12 "Human Genetic Variation and the Promise of Individual Medicine," by Stephen Stearns

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General Biology Laboratory

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Biology 1AL - Lecture 4: Lab 5: Complementation I, Genetics

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Brussels scientist close to discovering skin cancer origins

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This young boy with a spinal cord injury is moving his legs for the very first time.

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Project Walk Spinal Cord Injury Recovery Pintor, Alessandro

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Spot 2th International Symposium on Translational Regenerative Medicine that will be held at the Europa Congress and Exibition Center in Vitoria-Gasteiz Spain on October 1st 2011.

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Spot 2th International Symposium on Translational Regenerative Medicine

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New treatments available for cancer were discussed by world cancer experts from the USA and Europe in a free public information evening The Promise of Gene Therapy Newest Cancer Treatments on Thursday, September 3rd. The event was hosted by Cork Cancer Research Centre (CCRC) and took place at the Lifetime Lab, Lee Road, Cork, Ireland

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Public Talk - Prof Stephen Russell, Mayo Clinic, USA

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DVD: http://www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines. Among the most important topics are five unifying principles that can be said to be the fundamental axioms of modern biology: Cells are the basic unit of life New species and inherited traits are the product of evolution Genes are the basic unit of heredity An organism regulates its internal environment to maintain a stable and constant condition Living organisms consume and transform energy

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The Atom and Biological Science: Effects of Radiation - Cancer Research Film (1952)

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These embryonic stem cells in a lab dish form beating heart tissue. CIRM grantees are working to develop new therapies for heart disease based on these cells. For more info visit: http://www.cirm.ca.gov Beating heart tissue courtesy of The Exploratorium - http://www.exploratorium.edu - and the laboratory of Bruce Conklin at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease.

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Valentine's Day Stem Cell Wish: Mending Broken Hearts

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This is an updated video showing my dad's stem cell transplant and time spent at Texas Heart Institute. In October 2005 my father, Kevin Johnson, was diagnosed with idopathic cardiomyopathy.

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Kevin's 2 Heart Transplants and Stem Cell Transplant

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Jenny Smith plays rugby and tennis, rows on the Ohio River, and works out regularly in the gym. She does this despite a cervical spinal cord injury she suffered twenty two years ago at the age of sixteen

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Sports Opportunities Abound Even After a Spinal Cord Injury

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I tell my story of how I got injured. follow the link to view a rehab place that I go to as well as video of the accident : http://www.youtube.com

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Spinal cord injury story

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Paraplegic spinal cord injury Child walks on treadmill using Rifton Pacer gait trainer Mar 2011

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A short film about three spinal cord injury patients who share their stories of tragedy, hope and recovery following stem cell treatments for spinal cord injury at the Stem Cell Institute in Panama City, Panama. See them demonstrate their improvements by lifting themselves up, standing and even walking.

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The Spinal Cord Journey - Stem cell therapy stories from three spinal cord injury patients

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Michael Jackson's Physician and friend AJ Farshchian MD, is joining Dr.

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Michael Jackson 's doctor stands by him

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Judy Roberson sat down with CIRM at the World Stem Cell Summit to discuss the role patient advocates play in driving stem cell scientists and making the goals a reality.

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Judy Roberson: Patient advocates drive stem cell scientists

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