Researchers believe that these nascent, undefined cells, which are able to rebuild diseased tissue and restore immune systems, may hold the key to curing a host of diseases and disorders.
Curing cancer is a big task for a drug giant just coming off a decadelong dry spell.
In addition, give the amount of time he felt each new patient required (1 hour) and the little he charged for curing patients (a few hundred dollars), there was no marketing budget to speak of.
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The Supreme Court first upheld a software patent in 1981, involving software controlling a process for curing rubber, and since then patents have become a vital bulwark protecting the assets of big companies like IBM and Microsoft.
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Diehr, in which the Supreme Court upheld a patent for curing synthetic rubber that covered the process of checking temperatures and pressures and adjusting them according to a set of specified parameters.
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In 1961, the writer began to write a novel about curing juvenile delinquency.
Scientists are keen to use stem-cell research on cloned embryos as a way of curing several previously untreatable diseases.
His family, which runs a tiny store on a narrow alley, has enough money to try to pay out-of-pocket for the drugs that have a chance of curing him, since the government-provided ones don't seem to work for him.
"We did a lot of hunting and hiking together when the kids were little, " said Menard, gesturing to a picture of Palin as a young teen with her sister and Menard's sons, surrounded by moose carcasses in a room for curing big game.
The Supreme Court did uphold a patent on a software-controlled rubber-curing machine in 1981, but its ruling emphasized that this was because the patent covered a physical machine that happened to have a software component, rather than claiming a software technique by itself.
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But curing cancer turned out to be a lot harder than landing on the Moon.
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Ariad and other biotechs once pursued only the broadest markets, but they have a newfound interest in curing the rarest of cancers.
While a scientific breakthrough in its own right, it also brings the possibility of curing genetic diseases, growing new organs and even making a carbon copy of human beings one step closer.
His speech is not a serious attempt to deal with curing the ills of NHS patients.
"The Icelander's attitude is, if my sickness can do something good for curing other people, then it's a good thing, " says Matthias Johannessen, editor of Morgunbladid, Iceland's largest daily.
The curing process is similar today, but high prices demand a more sophisticated eater.
We had us a case here where one of your Navajo curing ceremonials could have done Nez more good than we did.
Curing--or even delaying--cancer has become a Holy Grail for medical research.
Scientists like Atala say regenerative medicine represents a new frontier in medicine that could see doctors curing, rather than merely treating, diseases using the body's natural ability to heal itself.
The Merseysiders seemed intent on curing that weakness as they quickly set about Wigan and only a last-ditch tackle by defender Antolin Alcaraz denied Cahill a shot from a promising position.
Desperate, Sommers turned to Goldstein, who started the dog on a regime of raw food--which Sommers credits with curing his chronic diarrhea--Chinese herbs, homeopathic remedies and supplements.
In a perfect world, I would love to see Bud Selig commission a joint study with the Major League Baseball Players Association on curing some of the current structural and financial flaws with the amateur draft.
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Athena Neurosciences was founded as a stand-alone company in 1987 with the express purpose of curing Alzheimer's.
Erecting a new legal barrier of this kind might be a mistake, not least because to some extent this problem is curing itself.
Goodman is President of the National Center for Policy Analysis, a Research Fellow with The Independent Institute and author of Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis.
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That is a sign, say some, that austerity is killing the economy, not curing it.
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It seemed so foolish from a human perspective to be destroying the very thing that may hold the key to curing some of our most terrible diseases.
Power in Dharavi, a giant Mumbai slum, is now largely tolled, with meters nestling next to curing factories piled with goat skins and people melting down used plastic cutlery.
Corn ethanol also has no chance of curing the nation's addiction to foreign oil. (Ethanol from cellulose would be more of a winner, but the technology does not yet exist.) Neither of these inconvenient truths will necessarily prevent U.S. politicians from bailing out the distillers.
It's still a very young exposure in this country, but I'm fully supporting the stem cells research towards curing the incurables of today's diseases.
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