When the good luck runs out, stem rust can destroy the entire harvest in an infected area.
Check out the STEM Challenge and encourage a young person in your life to start designing video games.
FORBES: Sesame Workshop Wants Your Kid to Design Video Games
Dirks showed that some of the immature-looking cells from his patients could form tumorlike clumps in the test tube, unlike most other cells from the tumors, but he didn't have a method to pluck out the stem cells.
Regulators and drug industry executives are pulling their hair out trying to stem a rising tide of fake or low-quality medicines being sold online.
Curis, a firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is building complex organs out of adult stem cells and testing them in patients with serious organ defects, such as bladder failure.
The doctors at Hopkins were concerned that Zoe might have inherited her mother's genetic vulnerability to the extreme chemotherapy needed to wipe out every single stem cell in preparation for the new marrow.
To appeal to moderates, they also pointed out that Reichert opposed stem cell research.
Geron , the stem-cell company he founded before moving to ACT, has often talked of nuclear transfer as a way of figuring out how to make stem cells.
Previously, the hospital was only able to carry out transplants if the stem cells were harvested directly from the patient or a relative, but can now also treat patients who need non-related donor stem cells.
BBC: Derriford Hospital's ?3m stem cell isolation unit praised
Geron (nadsaq: GERN - news - people ), the stem-cell company he founded before moving to ACT, has often talked of nuclear transfer as a way of figuring out how to make stem cells.
But even avoiding the immune problem, I mean nobody has exactly figured out how to use embryonic stem cells or these cells for therapy yet.
Since the protein needed to transform 5-fluorocytosine could only be churned out by souped-up stem cells, only the gliomas were exposed to the poison, killing them but sparing normal tissue, which the stem cells ignored.
Colombian neuroscientist Ricardo Dolmetsch, on leave from Stanford, heads up another challenge: using stem cells to figure out what the brain is made of.
FORBES: Inside Paul Allen's Quest To Reverse Engineer The Brain
Even if scientists figure out how to make milk with stem cells, it's unlikely they will be able to create milk with the same efficiency as they can corn or wheat.
At Apria they forced out managers and directors who failed to stem the company's red ink.
It is Hesse's attempt to stem the flow of customers out the door, hoping that matching rivals on price and topping them on services for the money, will turn things around.
"We select out the unwanted cell types to achieve pure stem cells, " explains Kraus.
We'll go out on a limb and assume these hacks stem from a common source.
Unfortunately, Bernanke is out of wind-up toys that can stem our deflationary spiral.
Inside the body, and out, there is no shortage of jobs for stem cells.
The complexities of funding, some say, are even more challenging than access issues to the stem cell lines -- and working out the details could take months.
But they may not be able to stem the flood of illicit gems pouring out of Zimbabwe, to be snapped up in Bahrain, China, India and Lebanon, among others.
Three large structures stand out: the cerebrum, the cerebellum and the brain stem.
These organ regeneration projects use three-dimensional printers to print out a bio degradable scaffold and then populate it with stem cells.
FORBES: Health and Medicine at the Inflection Point--Today's Perspective from Ray Kurzweil
He has managed to derive neural stem cells from 16 of these patients, out of a total of 22, and believes that success depends on which region of the brain is affected.
Which is that the putative economic benefits of monetary union may well be completely wiped out by the higher borrowing costs for member states that stem from their ability only to issue subsidiary sovereign bonds, or their inability to issue fully sovereign bonds.
The Europeans are the world masters at organizing conferences in Brussels committee rooms, however, now they are rapidly running out of time and credibility as they have sought to stem the forest fire of a sovereign-debt crisis almost a year after the Greek bond market hits the buffers and needed a bailout.
These disease-specific stem cell lines will also be invaluable in testing out new therapies.
BBC: Embryonic stem cells can be turned into any kind of cell
The scientists are already carrying out further research to see if they stop this molecule in stem cells.
Stem-cell research dates to 1981 and started out with mouse embryos, which researchers used to study the effects of individual genes and to try treating disease in mice.
应用推荐