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BARCELONA CELL REPROGRAMMING. "In frogs or lizards, for example, these reactions are those that allow their extremities to regenerate if the animal suffers an injury. Although in general, humans and mammals have lost this regenerative capacity, the Wnt pathway is involved in numerous processes during embryonic development and cell fusion." http://lnkd.in/d6CC9gy View in LinkedIn

CATALAN BIOTECH COMPANY IN MAJOR DEAL. Oryzon is one of the first generation Catalan biotech companies created in the emerging Knowledge Economy, and this is the first big validation of its success. http://lnkd.in/d_mKVPi View in LinkedIn

REVERSE AGING INSTITUTE "primarily serves clients who experience signs of aging such as: lack of energy, low sex drive, sexual dysfunction for men and women, hair loss, aging skin, vision loss, pain, stiff joints, muscle loss, fat gain, and other age-related problems ... severe medical conditions whose treatment has had limited to no success with traditional Western medicine in the US." http://lnkd.in/dhtmj8S View in LinkedIn

MILLIONAIRE SEEKS YOUTH THROUGH STEM CELLS. "Stem cells are being used for anti-ageing and the University of Miami is doing a study about that to prove that it is true. They are looking at me, and my markers have shown exactly that I have been actually reversing my ageing and getting younger." http://lnkd.in/dEUyg3Z View in LinkedIn

IS THE iPS REAL LEGACY: REPROGRAMMING AGING? "Adult fibroblasts taken from patients with rapid aging diseases such as Progeria can also be reprogrammed to an embryonic state and look very similar to control iPSCs." http://lnkd.in/decTvtt View in LinkedIn

TREATING BALDNESS. "This is the first time anyone has made scalable amounts of epithelial stem cells that are capable of generating the epithelial component of hair follicles." ... many potential applications, he adds, including wound healing, cosmetics, and hair regeneration." http://lnkd.in/dnSZBZ4 View in LinkedIn

CHANGING SKIN TO SPERM. "Scientists have turned skin tissue from infertile men into early-stage sperm cells in a groundbreaking study that raises hopes for new therapies for the condition. The unexpected success of the procedure has stunned some scientists, because it was thought to be impossible for the men to make any sperm." http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/may/01/study-turns-skin-tissue-infertile-men-sperm-cells View in LinkedIn

iPS FUTURE. "Right now it takes a lot of time, money, and labor to reprogram cells ... each intervention costs 20 million yen ($200,000) per eye and will take 10 people a year to complete ... The possibility of "allogeneic" treatment, in which iPS cells from one person could be used in many people, could reduce the cost tenfold." http://lnkd.in/d637hZz View in LinkedIn

JAPAN'S WORLD LEADERSHIP IN STEM CELLS has resulted in part from having a Nobel winner on the subject (Shinya Yamanaka MD PhD), but also by mobilization of investments and legal framework behind this remarkable innovation. The Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ), recently assembled a promising new company around the work. http://www.megakaryon.com/index-e.html View in LinkedIn

iPS MAY BE AVAILABLE FOR MACULAR DEGENERATION IN JAPAN IN 5 YEARS, "It depends on the regulation in each country. However, it will not become in common use before 10 years. ( In Japan, by chance, it will be 5 years or so.)" http://lnkd.in/d98BEBz View in LinkedIn