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2008

• NIH Record: Symposium Explores Promise of Stem Cell Therapies (July 11, 2008)
• NIH Symposium: Challenges & Promise of Cell-Based Therapies (May 6, 2008)

2007

• NIH Announces Plan to Implement President's Stem Cell Executive Order (September 18, 2007)
• Researchers Isolate Adult Stem Cells for First Time in Tendon (September 9, 2007)
• Scientists Identify a Mouse Embryonic Stem Cell More Like Our Own (June 27, 2007)
• Executive Order 13435: Expanding Approved Stem Cell Lines in Ethically Responsible Ways (June 22, 2007; Federal Register 72(120):34589)

2006

• Stem Cell Information Has a New Look! (October 6, 2006)
• NIBIB Awards First Quantum Grant Baylor College of Medicine Receives $2.9 Million Three-Year Grant (October 5, 2006)
• Gene Offers New Lead in Cleft Lip and Palate Research (September 21, 2006)
• Wounds May One Day Heal Better, Faster, Due to New NIH-Funded Wound Healing Centers (September 6, 2006)
• Neurons Grown from Embryonic Stem Cells Restore Function in Paralyzed Rats (June 20, 2006)
• Hearing of the Committee on Government Reform's Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources on Human Cloning and Embryonic Stem Cell Research After Seoul: Examining Exploitation, Fraud and Ethical Problems in the Research; Testimony of James F. Battey, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., Chair, NIH Stem Cell Task Force, Director, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (120k PDF; get Adobe Reader) (March 7, 2006)
• NIH Stem Cell Unit Publishes Toward xeno-free culture of human embryonic stemcells (640k PDF; get Adobe Reader) (February 24, 2006)

2005

• National Stem Cell Bank Offers Human Embryonic Stem (hES) Cells for $500 (December 9, 2005)
• The National Academies Press Publishes Reaping the Benefits of Genomic and Proteomic Research: Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation, and Public Health Online (November 28, 2005)
• NIH Awards a National Stem Cell Bank and New Centers of Excellence in Translational Human Stem Cell Research: NIH Press Release, WiCell Press Release (October 3, 2005)
• NHLBI Funds New Centers for Cell-Based Therapy (September 29, 2005)
• Stem Cell Information Web Site Scheduled for Maintenance (August 12, 2005)
• NIGMS Funds New Stem Cell Centers (August 9, 2005)
• Alternative Methods of Obtaining Embryonic Stem Cells—Statement of James F. Battey, M.D., Ph.D., Director, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, and Chair, NIH Stem Cell Task Force, July 12, 2005
• National Geographic: The Power to Divide Feature Story on the Science and Politics of Stem Cell Research (July 2005)
• Australian Stem Cell Centre and The Burnham Institute: Stem Cell Community Websites Now Online (June 29, 2005)
• NIH Stem Cell Group Attends 2005 ISSCR Annual Meeting (June 25, 2005)
• The National Academies Recommends Guidelines for Research Involving Embryonic Stem Cells (April 27, 2005)
• Harvard Stem Cell Institute Website Now Online (April 27, 2005)

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