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• EV teacher receives Spokane’s 100th transplant

  February 7, 2013 in City on Page A1 Whether it was the balloons or the lively rendition of “Happy Birthday,” it was impossible to miss the party room on the seventh floor of Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center … 4

• Stem cell institute shifts focus to clinical trials

  January 19, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A1 LOS ANGELES – Dr. Karen Aboody estimates that she has cured several hundred mice of a cancer of the central nervous system called neuroblastoma. First she injected them with specialized … 3

• Stem cell transplant offers hope

  November 19, 2009 in City on Page A5 Rami Amaro is betting on an experimental stem cell transplant treatment to fight off multiple sclerosis. It’s a risky – and expensive – procedure that the Hayden woman hopes will … 1

• Stem cell scientists creating human sperm

  July 9, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A2 LONDON – British scientists claimed Wednesday to have created human sperm from embryonic stem cells for the first time, an accomplishment they say may someday help infertile men father children. …

• New guidelines expand stem cell use

  July 7, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – Hundreds of embryonic stem cell lines, whose use in the United States had effectively been curtailed by the Bush administration, can be used to study disorders and develop …

• Kathleen Parker: Stem cell alternatives exist

  March 13, 2009 in Opinion on Page A13 As he lifted the ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research Monday, President Barack Obama proclaimed that scientific decisions now will be made “on facts, not ideology.” This … 1

• Obama conveys faith in science

  March 10, 2009 in City on Page A1 WASHINGTON – From tiny embryonic cells to the large-scale physics of global warming, President Barack Obama urged researchers Monday to follow science and not ideology as he abolished contentious Bush-era …

• Fetal stem cells triggered boy’s tumors, report says

  February 18, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A2 WASHINGTON – A family desperate to save a child from a lethal brain disease sought highly experimental injections of fetal stem cells – injections that triggered tumors in the boy’s …

• U.S. approves first study to test safety of stem cell treatment

  January 23, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 NEW YORK – A U.S. biotech company says it plans to start this summer the world’s first study of a treatment based on human embryonic stem cells – a long-awaited …