Press Releases from AlphaMed Press

Mouse Adult Stem Cells Developed into Heart and Blood Cells

DURHAM, N.C., April 30 - Researchers have succeeded in inducing stem cells grown from mouse skin cells to differentiate into functioning cardiovascular and blood cells, according to a study publishing online tomorrow in the journal "Stem Cells."

"Induced Pluripotent stem (iPS) cells are reprogrammed cells obtained by genetic manipulation of normal adult cells that then express capabilities similar to embryonic stem cells," explains Dr. Miodrag Stojković, Co-Editor of "Stem Cells." "That is, iPS cells are theoretically able to differentiate into 220 different cell types. For the first time, scientists from UCLA were able to induce the Differentiation of mouse iPS cells into functional heart cells, smooth muscle cells, and blood cells."

3rd Annual Young Investigator Award Presented at International Stem Cell Symposium

Durham, NC & Seoul, Korea, June 20, 2008 – The journal STEM CELLS® announces that Lena Motoda, MD, PhD won the 3rd Annual STEM CELLS® Young InvestigatorAward.

Partnership for Stem Cells journal

Hoboken, NJ, and Durham, NC, July 28, 2008— Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and AlphaMed Press today announced that Wiley-Blackwell has been selected to serve as co-publisher of Stem Cells.