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2009

• Comment on the NIH Draft Guidelines for Human Stem Cell Research (April 23, 2009)
• NIH Publishes Draft Guidelines for Human Stem Cell Research (April 17, 2009)
• NIH Record: President Directs NIH to Issue Stem Cell Research Guidelines within 120 Days (April 3, 2009)
• President Obama Issues Executive Order "Removing Barriers to Responsible Scientific Research Involving Human Stem Cells" (March 9, 2009)
• NIH Cataylst: The Future of Cancer Stem Cell Research (1.26MB PDF; get Adobe Reader) (February 18, 2009)

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)

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