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In life, what you give is what you get back!

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Record turn-out for the 65th anniversary AGM!

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Don't miss this year's 65th anniversary CPA Ontario Annual General Meeting at The Granite Club!

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I recently attended a council meeting in Oakville where the city was proposing to condense the number and confine locations of new drive thrus. There seemed to be a large consensus from local residents about health issues arising from idling cars at the drive thru window.

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Deletion of key gene could help nerve fibers regenerate, researchers sayDeleting a gene that suppresses natural growth factors enables regeneration of injured nerve fibers (axons) in mice, a new study shows.The finding may lead to new treatments for people with brain and spinal cord injuries.Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston deleted the gene SOCS3 -- an inhibitor of a growth pathway

WASHINGTON - University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have successfully grown multiple types of retina cells from two types of stem cells, giving new hope that damaged retinas may soon come to be repaired by cells grown from the patient’s own skin. The researchers have also said that their discovery may soon lead to laboratory models for studying [...]

MELBOURNE - A team of Australian scientists has genetically modified human embryonic stem cells to glow red when they develop into premature red blood cells. The breakthrough is seen as the next step in producing artificial blood. Dr Andrew Elefanty at Monash University in Melbourne and his colleagues inserted specific genes that code for colour, into the [...]

WASHINGTON - Researchers at Tel Aviv University have offered new hope for people with incurable neurodegenerative diseases like Huntington’s, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s by showing that the viability of stem cells created from a patient’s own bone marrow can be determined using MRI tracking methods. Dr. Yoram Cohen, of TAU’s School of Chemistry, claims that he has [...]

WASHINGTON - There is no known cure for diseases such as Huntington’s, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s where the nerve system degenerates. But now there is hope as stem cells from the patient’s own bone marrow may check advance of the disease. Yoram Cohen of Tel Aviv University’s School of Chemistry has recently proved the viability of these [...]

WASHINGTON - University College London scientists have shown that it is possible to guide stem cells to sites of cardiovascular injury using microscopic magnetic particles, in a new method designed to increase the capacity of cells to repair damaged tissue. Writing about their achievement in The Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Interventions, the [...]

WASHINGTON - In a novel study, University of Central Florida researchers have shown that light energy can be used to harness the healing power of stem cells and guide them to areas of the body that need help. Lead researcher Aristide Dogariu, an optical scientist at the College of Optics and Photonics, and Kiminobu Sugaya, a [...]

WASHINGTON - Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have moved a step closer to transforming embryonic stem cells into a multipurpose medical tool, for they have successfully transformed these versatile cells into progenitors of white blood cells and into six types of mature white blood and immune cells. The researchers agree that a clinical use for [...]

WASHINGTON - A team of U.S. scientists has identified phosphorylated signalling proteins in human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) studying which may help understand the mechanisms that determine whether stem cells divide [...]

WASHINGTON - Stanford’s School of Medicine researchers have identified the first human bladder cancer stem cell. “This is first time we’ve found this ‘don’t eat me signal’ in a stem cell of a solid cancer,” said Irving Weissman, MD, the Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor for Clinical Investigation in Cancer Research at the medical school. “We’re [...]

LONDON - A gene variation of prostate stem cell antigen (PSCA) gene, called rs2294008, can increase the risk of urinary bladder cancer, according to researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. The researchers determined that people with the variant had a 30 to 40 percent higher risk for bladder cancer. They hope that [...]

WASHINGTON - The “daughters” of breast stem cells, called luminal progenitor cells, are found to be responsible for breast cancers that develop in women carrying mutations in the gene BRCA1, according to scientists at Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. Women with BRCA1 mutations often develop “basal-like” breast cancer, which is a particularly aggressive form of the [...]

WASHINGTON - Scientists at the University of Florida have announced that they have successfully programmed bone marrow stem cells to repair damaged retinas in mice, moving a step closer to developing a potential treatment for one of the most common causes of vision loss in older [...]

Journal retracts claim of sperm made of stem cells LONDON — A scientific journal has retracted a controversial paper claiming to have created the first human sperm from embryonic stem cells. The journal’s editor told the science publication Nature that the study by scientists at Britain’s Newcastle University was retracted because two paragraphs in its introduction had [...]

LONDON - A report claiming that scientists have created sperm-like cells from human embryonic stem cells has been retracted by a journal that published it three weeks ago, as it has attracted controversy. Graham Parker, the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Stem Cells and Development, say that he took the he made this move on July 27 [...]

NY taxpayers to pay donors for stem cell studies NEW YORK — Hanqi Miao said she wanted to donate her eggs to help infertile couples reproduce, but she acknowledged the money is good, too: She said she’ll be paid about $5,000. “Who doesn’t want money in your hand?” said the 21-year-old woman, who will have to undergo [...]