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TEDxPhoenix – Jane Maienschein – Stem Cells, Regenerative Medicine and Us

TEDxPhoenix 2009 presents Dr. Jane Maienschein, Professor of Biology, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University. http://www.tedxphoenix.com Needless to say, growing up near the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and having a nuclear physicist as a parent certainly influenced Dr.

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Disease in a Dish: Using Stem Cells to Model Huntington’s Disease and Spinal Muscular Atrophy

(Part 6 of 7) Bill Johnston, a Huntington's disease patient advocate, and Virginia Mattis, a postdoctoral fellow at Cedar-Sinai Medical Center, spoke at "Synapses Firing: Connections Made", a patient advocacy event hosted by the California stem cell funding agency (CIRM). The 100+ people in attendance heard from patient advocates about living with neurodegenerative disease and from scientists about recent progress in stem cell research that may lead to new treatments.

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Disease in a Dish: Using Stem Cells to Model Huntington's Disease and Spinal Muscular Atrophy