class="pagetitle"> Stem Cells
Cancer Stem Cells: The Origin of Cancer
Presented by: Irving Weissman, MD
The Virginia & D.K. Ludwig Professor for Clinical Investigation in Cancer Research, Professor of Developmental Biology and by courtesy of Biology
Stanford University Medical Center
February 11, 2009
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Lecture Overview:
Cancer stem cells have the ability to self-renew and replenish the growing cancer. They can grow indefinitely and spread to other organs […]
Read More..>>Rebuilding A Damaged Brain
Presented by: Lawrence Recht, MD
Director, Neuro-Oncology Program
Stanford University Medical Center
Lecture Overview:
Treatment of brain cancer can cause as much neurological damage as the disease
Stem cells may offer the opportunity to develop a new way to treat patients with damage to their nervous system that from a tumor or treatment, similar to bone marrow transplantation
The cerebral cortex […]
Implications Of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research On Women’s Health
Presented by: Renee Reijo Pera, PhD
Director, Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Education
Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Stanford University Medical Center
Lecture Overview:
Unlike adult stem cells, embryonic stem cells have the potential to differentiate into any cell, including another stem cell
Understanding the process of how two pronuclei (egg and sperm) fuse to become an embryo is […]
