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Stem Cell News

• Congratulations to Prof Arne Akbar
• Dr Mark Lythgoe receives MRC Capacity Building Studentship Scheme Award
• Prof Martin Birchall discusses UCL research
• UCL tops RAE Biomedical & Life Sciences gold medal table
• Green light for US stem cell work
• Prize for Professor Jeremy Brockes
• 'The Guardian' highlights UCL Stem Cell work
• Stem Cells - possible cure for blindness
• Prof Martin Birchall on BBC Radio 4
• Prof Chris Mason comments on USA stem cell research funding
• US stem cell funding ban lift: the implications
• Listen now: Stem cell research – science, methods and applications
• Blindness to be cured by stem cells
• Prof Robin Ali wins Alcon Research Institute Award
• Prof Alejandro Madrigal elected President of international body of excellence
• UCL–Pfizer to develop pioneering stem cell sight therapies
• The cell that might save sight: Why stem cell therapy could start with the eyes
• New leadership team for UCL School of Life & Medical Sciences
• Prof Peter Coffey comments on growth of stem cell research
• UCL excels at Medical Research Council applications and awards
• Daughter's cells save mother with leukaemia who was given just months to live
• Nano-magnets guide stem cells to damaged tissue
• UCL tops the THE league table in research grant wins
• Stem cell trials offer hope of repairing damaged hearts
• Stem Cell Awareness Day celebrated around the world
• Nanoparticles to be used to destroy incurable cancers
• UCL fourth in new university world rankings
• UCL and Yale unite to improve global health
• UCL to establish new centre for ethics and law
• Scientists rescue visual function in rats using Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
• How an eye test could aid Alzheimer’s detection
• Professor David Becker nominated for the BBSRC's 2010 Innovator of the Year Award
• Dr Roberto Mayor comments on the earthquake's impact on Chilean science
• UCL surgeons perform revolutionary transplant operation in child
• UK government commits £250m to world-leading laboratory
• UCL scientists discover ‘traitor’ human DNA helps viruses cause cancer
• UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine: one year on
• UCL study reveals more about our Achilles heel
• UCL's expertise in biomedical engineering underpins world first in veterinary science
• UCL named 'centre of excellence' in cancer research
• New minister chooses UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital for visit
• How the wrong genes are repressed: new finding from UCL
• UKCMRI: launch of science vision and new building designs
• UCL excels at Medical Research Council applications and awards
• Sir Paul Nurse to head world-leading centre for biomedical research and innovation
• Cells’ grouping tactic points to new cancer treatments
• Two New Paths to the Dream: Regeneration
• Tracheal transplant patient to return home
• Stem cell clinics: experts insist claims of cure-all are medically unproven
• UCL maintains 4th place in QS World University Rankings
• AstraZeneca and UCL join forces in stem cell therapy for diabetic retinopathy
• Stem cell technique offers new potential to treat blindness
• How Injured Nerves Grow Themselves Back
• Science is Vital Campaign
• Dr Jenny Rohn on why science is vital
• UKCMRI milestone: agreement signed
• UCL Provost reappointed UK Business Ambassador
• UCL tops list of biology programmes at 130 high-performing universities in Europe
• Watch: Pioneering prostethics
• Larynx transplant restores California patient's ability to speak
• Professors Peng Khaw and Barry Fuller appointed UCL's Knowledge Transfer Champions
• EU Commissioner for Research, Innovation & Science visits UCL
• Tracking neural stem cells
• Professor David Price: The case for research colloboration
• Regenerative medicine success for muscles
• Regenerative medicine: DIY eye
• Joint venture in world-class medical imaging
• UCL Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging official opening
• Scientists seek to implant embryos with genetic material from three parents
• Mary Collins: HIV can help fight disease
• Stem cell treatments threatened by European patents ruling
• OncoTrack tests drugs in virtual people
• School of Pharmacy will merge with UCL
• Paralysed man can stand and use his legs again
• Former UCL Biosciences PhD student wins most promising thesis award
• Research funding should reward excellence
• UCL - Eisai partnership on neurodegenerative diseases enters new phase
• Turning back the cellular clock could repair damage after a heart attack
• Professor Sir John Tooke elected next President of the Academy of Medical Sciences
• Voicebox transplant trials in UK get go-ahead
• The UK Centre for Research & Innovation (UKCMRI) changed its name to The Francis Crick Institute on Monday 27th June
• Yale UCL Collaborative: House of Commons Event
• First synthetic windpipe transplant
• Pioneering prosthetics
• UCL launches its open access repository
• First targeted treatment success for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
• Body shop: artificial organs - the medical revolution
• Joint-UCL health research centres receive £165 million
• Gene therapy success for children born without functioning immune system
• UCL is placed 7th in this year's QS World University Rankings
• Research council bucks trend on funding success
• Internet ruffles pricey scholarly journals
• New trial for retinal stem cell treatment gets go-ahead at Moorfields Eye Hospital
• New gene identified for familial motor neuron disease
• Healthy, wealthy and wise
• The future of 3D printing
• Stem Cell Awareness Day
• Stem-Cell Clinical Trials Move Debate Beyond Labs
• Unravelling the epigenome
• Baby repair kit found inside the womb
• UCL Provost named preferred choice for new NHS role
• European court bans patents based on embryonic stem cells
• Merger: School of Pharmacy and UCL
• The incredible shrinking laboratory or 'lab-on-a-chip'
• Haemophilia gene therapy shows early success
• UCL Research Strategy published
• School of Pharmacy merges with UCL
• Europe’s first human embryonic stem cell transplant in patient with Stargardt’s Disease at Moorfields Eye Hospital
• Research Intelligence - Renaissance man's word to the wise
• Step towards creating intestine transplant using patient’s own cells
• UCL Professor James Bainbridge awarded a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) professorship.
• Gene therapy success as teen injected with own stem cells
• UCL scientists unravel protein’s link to halting Alzheimer’s disease in mice
• Human stem cells improve vision in rats with ‘glaucoma-like’ nerve cell damage
• Will we ever grow replacement hands?
• Prime Minister visits UCL
• UCL receives £174m HEFCE Grant for 2012-13
• Transplanted cells allow mice with night blindness to see in dark
• Research intelligence - Hands off the funding sacred cow?
• UCL Vice-Provost (Education) outlines his vision for education at UCL
• UCL Vice-Provost (Research) appointed to STFC Council
• Minister for Universities and Science, launches Imanova, a new public-private research centre for imaging science
• Winning the Wolfson bid: how UCL secured its biggest research grant
• Parliamentary group visit the UCL Institute of Neurology
• Potential new approach to regenerating skeletal muscle tissue
• Stem cell scientists take hope from first human trials but see long road ahead
• Girl, 10, has vein made from her own stem cells successfully transplanted
• UCL Vice-Provost (Research) responds to Open Access report
• Transplant of patient-derived stem cells into mice with muscular dystrophy
• Amniotic fluid yields alternatives to embryonic stem cells
• Gold or green: which is the best shade of open access?
• Pioneering windpipe boy growing into healthy teenager 
• 'Spray-patch' could mend hearts
• Engineering living tissue
• Congratulations to John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka for the 2012 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine