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TAN Sri Danny Tan Chee Sing, who controls Dijaya Group, has ventured into the healthcare business, following in the footsteps of elder brother Tan Sri Vincent Tan Chee Yioun.

The younger Tan is partnering several doctors to operate the Beverly Wilshire Medical Centre Sdn Bhd, to capture a piece of the booming aesthetic industry here.

"Beverly Wilshire is a boutique medical centre specialising in aesthetics, plastic, stem cell therapy and health screening," its executive director Dr Liow Tiong Sin told Business Times in a recent interview.

This 13-bed hospital also has a dental unit, operated by Beverly Wilshire Dental Specialist Centre Sdn Bhd, which has Tan as a common shareholder.

In total, the facility will have six medical doctors - including two surgeons, four physicians and five dental surgeons.

"This is a centre that provides total transformation for the patient. We provide a high standard of service, individual service that ensures patients don't feel like hospital patients but rather a place for healing and rejuvenation," Dr Liow, who is also the aesthetic physician, said.

It is also a one-stop centre for transformation and healthy aging, providing both external and internal treatment.

All its equipment are FDA approved. Its machines include Fraxel for scar, pigment and skin rejuvenation and Thermage CPT, which is used to firm skin, improve cellulite, body tightening and sculpting.

How is this centre different from other beauty centres and medical centres providing similar services?

"Others may not be focused and built to specialise on aesthetics. We trust we are the only one-stop place which offers treatment from plastic (surgery) to anti-aging, to stem cell to dental," he said.

Beverly Wilshire uses human stem cells as it is the most bio-compatible. At the same time, stem cells can also be harvested in the purest form from a person's fat cell for an autologous transplant.

Stem cell therapy is used to regenerate the muscle and vessels in the heart and in the brain to regenerate the nerves and improve blood supply.

While most hospitals in Malaysia would typically take about 10 years to see return on investments (ROI), Beverly Wilshire expects to see ROI in less than half that time or less. Its expected investment cost is some RM20 million.

"This is a boutique type centre. ROI could take three to five years," he said.

Beverly Wilshire, started as a privately held Dijaya Medical Centre but decided to change its name as the name Dijaya is closely linked to property.

Since it is a beauty and aesthetics centre, it searched for names and settled with Beverly Wilshire as it was a luxury hotel in Beverly Hills in the US.

"So we thought we will create the Hollywood theme and provide the best," Dr Liow said.

This 13-bed hospital is located at Plaza Dijaya in Jalan Tun Razak, Kuala Lumpur. It will be launched soon.

It will target both locals and foreigners. For some foreign patients, the treatment will be a fraction of the cost compared to the same treatment in their country.

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When LSA senior Daniel Lee returned to the United States in December from a family trip to Italy feeling ill, he was rushed to the hospital where he received a life-threatening diagnosis — he had aplastic anemia, a disease that prevents bone marrow from producing red and white blood cells.

Upon hearing news of Lee’s dire need for a bone marrow transplant, students mobilized to encourage members of the campus community to donate marrow and raise awareness about the importance of joining the National Marrow Donor Registry.

As part of this effort, Sigma Kappa sorority members will work with DKMS Americas, a donor recruitment center, helping students, faculty and staff members register for the Be The Match Registry today from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Anderson AB Room in the Union.

LSA senior Samira Monavvari, Lee’s friend, has been working to promote today’s event via Facebook and has received more than 1,000 confirmed attendees. Monavvari said she hopes to be able to help someone else in need of a transplant, even if she doesn't find a match for Lee.

“The fact that Dan is going through this makes us want to donate to people who we don’t even know because it’s so hard seeing what he’s going through,” Monavvari said.

According to Monavvari, Lee is known jokingly by his friends as “the next Steve Jobs,” adding that he is extremely smart, driven and friendly.

“If you ask him what he wants to do, he’ll always say he wants to be known for something,” Monavvari said. “He is the kind of kid who gets along with everyone … that’s why (his diagnosis) has touched everyone so much.”

LSA junior Jessica Kaltz, a member of Sigma Kappa, started organizing the drive prior to Lee’s diagnosis. Kaltz worked with Christian Montgomery, a University alum and DKMS Americas employee, over the past few months to organize the registry at the University.

She wrote in an e-mail interview that she hopes that Lee’s story will inspire people to attend today’s event.

“When people hear about Dan’s story, I think they will see that by simply taking five minutes of their time by signing up to become a donor, they could possibly be the life-saving difference that Dan needs,” Kaltz wrote.

Montgomery explained that the process for joining the registry involves having potential donors fill out a short form and then submit a cheek swab to determine their tissue type.
Potential donors will then be added to the Be The Match Registry, a national list of potential bone marrow donors.

If the donor is contacted as a match and decides to continue with the process, he or she will be required to take a blood test in order to obtain the best match for the patient in need.

Between four and six weeks later, the donor will undergo a marrow extraction procedure or peripheral blood stem cell donation, depending on the patient’s condition. Contrary to popular belief, the donor typically does not experience significant pain, a common misconception about the two procedures, Montgomery said.

Montgomery is not only a DKMS employee, but also a bone marrow donor himself. In 2007, he registered at an event in the Diag, and in January 2008 he was contacted as a potential match for a 22-year-old female in New Jersey suffering from paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, a rare blood disease.

Nicole Mausteller, the patient to whom Montgomery made his donation, said her disorder was discovered through blood work that was required as part of the process of becoming a dental assistant.

Montgomery donated through marrow extraction in May 2008, a procedure that he said left him a bit stiff and sore for a few days. After receiving a one-month, six-month and one-year update, Montgomery and Mausteller agreed to exchange contact information. They have been in contact since February 2010 and remain good friends.

“He’s my hero,” Mausteller said.

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-Dr.Dianne McCallister, Chief Medical Officer at Centuras Porter Adventist Hospital February is heart month, and we are all familiar with exercise and diet to help our hearts. But do you know how stem cells or your toothbrush can help your heart? This week, Lancet published an article on the use of Stem Cells to help repair the heart.Other medical literature shows a link between the health of your teeth and heart disease. What Are Stem Cells? Stem cells are a type of body cell that still has the ability to become any type of tissue. They work in our bodies to help our tissues repair themselves.When stem cells divide, the new cell has the choice to stay a stem cell - or to become a certain type of tissue cell - in this case, were talking about them become heart muscle cells.For years science has been working on the theory that stem cells could be harvested, grown and then used to repair, or grow organs. Healing Damaged Hearts With Stem Cells The researchers at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles took 25 patients who had suffered severe heart attacks - 24% of the muscle in the wall of their ventricle - which is the chamber that pumps blood to the body - was scarred and not functioning.These patients had the normal treatment for heart attacks - but also had stem cells harvested from their heart, grown in the lab, and then re- injected into their hearts.Another group of patients with similar heart attacks just received the usual heart treatment.The patients without stem cells did not show any improvement in their heart muscle - but the stem cell patients had about half the injury to their heart reversed - in other words, the scar was dissolved and replaced with functioning heart muscle.This is a very small study, and it is too early to predict when and if this will become a common treatmentThat being said, it is promising that stem cell therapy may have a new promise for heart attack victims.Standard therapy helps the damaged heart function as well as possible while also limiting the chance of another heart attack.This gives hope that we can reverse the damage.However, we need to remember that there is a lot of testing that needs to happen to determine if there are any unwanted side effects of giving stem cells, when it is appropriate to use them, and what long term effects are from using them. Dental Health And Our Hearts There is growing evidence showing that gum disease has an association with heart disease.We know that gum disease - called gingivitis - allows bacteria from our mouth to get into our blood stream.This is somehow related with inflammation and development of blockages in the vessels of the heart.In addition to brushing, we need to be flossing. Using an antiseptic mouth wash daily and regular dental visits to have teeth cleaned is also important.In fact, good dental health habits are associated with a longer life.There are associations between poor dental health and development of such diseases as diabetes, stroke, lung disease and even pre-term births.So the five minutes you spend twice daily on your teeth is an investment in your overall health as wellDr. McCallister is on 7NEWS at 11 a.m. every Wednesday. If you have a topic or question you would like her to discuss, email 11am@thedenverchannel.com. The following are comments from our users. Opinions expressed are neither created nor endorsed by TheDenverChannel.com. By posting a comment you agree to accept our Terms of Use. Comments are moderated by the community. To report an offensive or otherwise inappropriate comment, click the "Flag" link that appears beneath that comment. Comments that are flagged by a set number of users will be automatically removed.

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Dentists can be at the forefront of the emerging field of regenerative medicine by offering Store-A-Tooth™ dental stem cell banking.

This service enables families to save their own adult stem cells from teeth that are naturally coming out or being extracted. Dental professionals play a role in making patients aware of this option, giving families the choice to safely and securely store their stem cells today – in a convenient and affordable way – so that they can take advantage of future therapies in regenerative medicine and dentistry.

Provia Laboratories, LLC will be exhibiting its Store-A-Tooth™ dental stem cell preservation service during the Chicago Midwinter Meeting at booth # 3346.

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Provia Laboratories, LLC will be exhibiting during the Chicago Midwinter Meeting at booth # 3346 to showcase its Store-A-Tooth™ dental stem cell preservation service.

The Store-A-Tooth service enables families to save their own adult stem cells – from baby teeth ready to fall out; teeth pulled for orthodontic reasons; and wisdom teeth being extracted. Dental professionals play a role in making patients aware of this option, giving families the choice to safely and securely store their stem cells today – in a convenient and affordable way – so that they can take advantage of future therapies in regenerative medicine and dentistry.

The company partners with dental offices to make it easy to educate and inform patients about the option to preserve their family’s dental stem cells. For those interested in the service, Provia works with the dental team to provide high quality tooth collection, and arranges for the sample to be sent overnight to the lab, where the stem cells are harvested, tested and cryopreserved for future potential use.

“New stem cell therapies are going to change medicine as we know it, and dentists will play a leading role in enabling this transformation,” states Howard Greenman, Provia Labs CEO. “There’s been a lot of media buzz about stem cell research in general, but most people are unaware that a very potent and plentiful source of viable stem cells exits in the dental pulp of healthy teeth.”

Dental stem cells have already successfully been used in people to regenerate alveolar jaw bone and to treat periodontal disease. “One of the first routine applications in the oral cavity for the use of mesenchymal stem cells from teeth will be to promote bone growth around implants so they integrate more quickly, similar to how cellular bone matrix products are used today,” says Dr. Nicholas Perrotta, DMD, who started providing the Store-A-Tooth service in 2011.

“In addition to potential applications in regenerative dentistry, dental stem cell research may lead to new treatments for a wide range of medical conditions, including type 1 diabetes, stroke, cardiovascular disease, spinal cord injuries, and Parkinson’s disease, to name a few,” explains Peter Verlander, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer for Provia Labs. “Dental stem cell collection and preservation gives parents the peace of mind that they are now equipped to take advantage of the breakthroughs in stem cell therapies that will arise from the research community.”

“Store-A-Tooth is less expensive than collecting stem cells from umbilical cord blood. In fact, we hear from many of our customers that they are thankful to have this opportunity to store their stem cells, especially if they missed the chance to save cord blood,” states Greenman. “Our mission is to make stem cell banking accessible to the millions of children losing teeth every year.”

There are no fees or costs to dentists who wish to become an authorized Store-A-Tooth provider; in fact dentists can generate incremental revenue for assisting with tooth collection. Provia Labs supplies all participating practices with patient education materials, practice tools and dedicated support; training is simple and there is minimal impact to existing workflow.

Dental professionals share Store-A-Tooth educational materials with their patients, who enroll directly with Provia Labs. The day of the appointment, the dentist simply places the extracted tooth into the Store-A-Tooth collection kit, which includes a proven transport device called Save-A-Tooth®. In use by thousands of dentists for over 20 years, the Save-A-Tooth is an FDA-approved and ADA-accepted device for transporting avulsed teeth for reimplantation. The Store-A-Tooth collection kit is shipped overnight to the Provia Laboratories facility, where the stem cells are processed and stored.

The Store-A-Tooth service is currently available to dental offices throughout the United States and internationally. To become a provider, visit http://www.store-a-tooth.com or call 877-867-5753.

About Provia Laboratories, LLC

Headquartered in Lexington, MA, Provia Laboratories, LLC (http://www.provialabs.com) is a healthcare services company specializing in high quality biobanking (preservation of biological specimens). The company’s Store-A-Tooth™ service platform enables the collection, transport, processing, and storage of dental stem cells for potential use in future stem-cell therapies. The company advises industrial, academic, and governmental clients on matters related to the preservation of biological specimens for research and clinical use. In addition, Provia offers a variety of products for use in complex biobanking environments to improve sample logistics, security, and quality. For more information on dental stem cells, call 1-877-867-5753, visit http://www.store-a-tooth.com or http://www.facebook.com/storeatooth, or follow via twitter @StoreATooth.

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THERE'S a dentist in London who has a picture of Mickey Mouse on the ceiling above where his patients recline.

Long before the drilling started, this was supposed to make children more at ease.

All it did for me was to instil a profound fear of cartoon rodents. And I was in my forties.

Why, I wondered — as Mickey leered down and a grinding vibration reverberated from jaw to spine — can't we simply regrow teeth? After all, we do it in childhood, when the tooth fairy swaps our baby teeth for small coins and adult choppers.

Good news: we very nearly can. Last week, in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, a team from Tokyo, including Professor Satoshi Fukumoto, said they had created cells that could make enamel, the hard outer coating of teeth.

This follows the development of a technique by Dr Jeremy Mao at Columbia University in New York City for encouraging stem cells to move to a scaffolding where they will grow to replace a missing tooth.

"In the future," says Dr Paul Sharpe of King's College London, who has also grown teeth from tooth buds, "we envision a patient who loses a tooth and wants a replacement will be able to choose between current methods and a biological-based implant — a new natural tooth."

All these attempts involve stem cells, first discovered by Canadians James Till and Ernest McCulloch in 1963.

The body's cells all have the same DNA, but depending on the tissue that they belong to — blood, skin or kidney etc — they will have different sets of genes turned on or off. And they pass those characteristics on to their descendants. When a muscle cell divides, its two daughter cells are both muscle.

Stem cells, however, have not decided which tissue they will be. When they divide, their daughters can be either stem cells or any kind of tissue cell.

In the past decade, stem cells have sparked a revolution in biosciences, creating a whole new field called regenerative medicine as scientists learn how to grow spare human parts. While teeth may well be the first, they won't be the last.

Regenerative medicine will address two huge problems faced by transplants. The first is that potential recipients far outnumber donors. Some authorities have tried to solve this by requiring that people actively opt out of organ transplant schemes. If you're in a coma and not expected to wake up, doctors presume they can "harvest" your organs unless you've left clear instructions otherwise.

The second problem is rejection. A transplanted organ has DNA that is different from the recipient's, which can cause the immune system to treat it as an invader. So transplants usually come with drugs that suppress the immune system, leaving the patient vulnerable to other infections. If we were able to grow new organs to order, from cells with the patient's own DNA, it would solve both these problems.

But stem cells have political problems, particularly in the US, where president George W Bush severely limited research funding because the main source for stem cells were embryos, usually those left over after in-vitro fertilisation but potentially from abortions. Those restrictions have been gradually eased, but more than a dozen states also have strict rules in place.

The stem cells used by the Japanese team, however, have a different source. Called "induced pluripotent stem" cells, they are made from tissue cells that have been treated to return them to a state similar to that of stem cells. No embryo, no political problem.

But real stem cells would be better. And one of the best places to find them in adults, it turns out, is in teeth. Some companies are even harvesting people's dental pulp stem cells and storing them in case they're needed in future. Soon it may be possible not only to regrow teeth, but to regrow other organs from teeth.

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Creating custom organs for individual patients is an idea that's been bandied about for some time, but it's no longer just a possibility for the distant future. A woman has been fitted with a brand new jawbone built by a 3D printer. "The combination of additive manufacturing and tissue engineering can result in real organ printing," said medical engineer Jules Poukens. "In this case, bone is the organ."

They're building people out of 3D printers now -- parts, anyway. LayerWise announced Sunday that it has applied a process called "additive manufacturing" to produce a titanium total lower jaw implant for facial reconstruction. The project was developed in collaboration with partners from medical industries and academia.

This is the first complete patient-specific implant for the lower jaw. The complex implant design incorporates articulated joints and dedicated features. The implant restored a patient's facial aesthetics and allowed her to regain her speech within hours.

The printer uses a high-precision laser to selectively heat metal powder particles that fully melt to adhere to the next layer without using glue or binder liquid. The additive manufacturing prints functional implant shapes that could be very difficult to produce using standard metalworking processes.

The implant was awarded the 2012 additive manufacturing award by the Additive Manufacturing Network in Belgium due to the fact that additive manufacturing played the main role in the realization of this new technology.

Medical Field Breakthrough

This advancement in the field of implant reconstruction goes beyond facial surgery. The technology could change the way all implants are designed and produced.

"This is a real breakthrough, exhibiting the possibilities of additive manufacturing in the field of medicine," Peter Mercelis, PhD, managing director of LayerWise, told TechNewsWorld. "Not only patient-specific implants are possible, but the technology can also be applied for serial manufacturing of implants. Applications of additive manufacturing and 3D printing are not limited to facial surgery, but also orthopedic surgery and traumatology may benefit from this technology."

These methods will become more common as more people become aware of the benefits, suggested Mercelis.

"It is now very new, but when awareness grows, also the acceptance of this technology will follow," he said. "This kind of technology was originally developed as a prototyping technique, but we successfully used our additive manufacturing technology to make fully functional components instead of prototypes. "

Price Will Go Down

The medical industry will recognize the benefits of the patient-specific implant, Mercelis predicted, including reduced operation time, faster recovery, better long-term outcomes and better functionality for patients.

"Of course, a broad acceptance will also allow the technology to become cheaper," he said.

Body Parts Just for You

Implants using additive manufacturing allow new possibilities and are easier for the body to adapt to due to the detail that doctors are able to put into the individual pieces.

"We already use the technology on a large scale for patient-specific dental prostheses through our dental division, DentWise," said Mercelis. "Biocompatible implants may be designed with integrated porosities to allow the natural bone of the patient to really grow inside the implant to allow for an improved fixation of the implant. This offers many new possibilities; one can integrate drugs that promote bone formation."

In the future, combinations of titanium implants and biodegradable 3D printed structures may be used, Mercelis added.

The Future: Growing Our Own Bones

This revolutionary step in mandibular treatment was developed under the supervision of Jules Poukens, professor in medical engineering at University Hasselt Belgium and cranio-maxillofacial surgeon at Orbis Medical Center.

"The combination of additive manufacturing and tissue engineering can result in real organ printing," Poukens told TechNewsWorld. "In this case, bone is the organ."

Further research, involving the combination of 3D printing with human tissue, will be carried out in cooperation with the research institute Sirris. "3D printed resorbable scaffolds can be combined with stem cells from the patient in order to create a viable implant without the need to harvest large bone transplants from the patient," said Poukens.

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An 83-year-old Belgian woman is able to chew, speak and breathe normally again after a machine printed her a new jawbone. Made from a fine titanium powder sculpted by a precision laser beam, her replacement jaw has proven as functional as her own used to be before a potent infection, called osteomyelitis, all but destroyed it.

The medics behind the feat say it is a first. "This is a world premiere, the first time a patient?specific implant has replaced the entire lower jaw," says Jules Poukens, the researcher who led the operation at Biomed, the biomedical research department of the University of Hasselt, in Belgium. "It's a cautious, but firm step."

Until now, the largest 3D-printed implant is thought to have been half of a man's upper jawbone, in a 2008 operation in Finland.

In this operation, a 3D printed titanium scaffold was steeped in stem cells and allowed to grow biocompatible tissue inside the abdomen of the recipient. Then, in 2009, researchers reported successfully printing copies of whole thumb bones - opening the way for the replacement of smashed digits using information from MRI scans.

Poukens' team worked with researchers in Belgium and the Netherlands and a 3D printing firm called Layerwise in Leuven, Belgium, which specialises in printing with ultrastrong titanium to make dental implants (like bridges and crowns) and facial and spinal bone implants.

By using an MRI scan of their patient's ailing jawbone to get the shape right, they fed it to a laser sintering 3D printer which fused tiny titanium particles layer by layer until the shape of her jawbone was recreated. It was then coated in a biocompatible ceramic layer. No detail was spared: it even had dimples and cavities that promoted muscle attachment, and sleeves that allowed mandibular nerves to pass through - plus support structures for dental implants the patient might need in future.

The team were astonished at the success of the four-hour jaw implant operation, which took place in June 2011 but which has only just been revealed.  "Shortly after waking up from the anaesthetic the patient spoke a few words, and the day was able to speak and swallow normally again," says Poukens.

It's only the start, predicts Layerwise managing director Peter Mercelis. "Patient?specific implants can potentially be applied on a much wider scale than transplantation of human bone structures."

Since 3D printers can create layers of material only micrometres thick, and from just about any material, researchers are investigating ways to print skin grafts for burns victims from them - and how to build up whole organs from depositing cells in the correct shape.

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UT Arlington engineer developing Biomask to aid soldiers recovering from facial burns

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UT Arlington engineers working with Army surgeons are developing a pliable, polymer mask embedded with electrical, mechanical and biological components that can speed healing from disfiguring facial burns and help rebuild the faces of injured soldiers.

The Biomask project is led by Eileen Moss, an electrical engineer and research scientist based at the UT Arlington Automation & Robotics Research Institute in Fort Worth. Project partners include the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio and Northwestern University in Chicago. The work is funded through a $700,000 research grant from the U.S. Army Medical Research & Materiel Command.

"This gives our wounded warriors hope," said Col. Robert G. Hale, commander of the U.S. Army Dental and Trauma Research Detachment in San Antonio, which is part of the Institute of Surgical Research. "That's what it's all about. We're improving their quality of life."

Northwestern University and the Institute of Surgical Research in San Antonio are currently involved in researching wound healing, while Moss and her UT Arlington team are focused on developing Biomask prototypes that will be tested by the other collaborators. They will be able to provide Moss with feedback to improve the device.

Hale expects Moss's device to be in use at military medial centers within five years. The device also may aid in stem cell regeneration to regrow missing tissue where the Biomask is placed, he said.

Moss began her work toward the Biomask as a doctoral student at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her dissertation focused on research into polymer-based microfluidic systems for biomedical applications. She joined UT Arlington in 2007 to continue the research.

Current burn treatment typically involves removing damaged areas followed by grafting. The outcomes may be good, but the procedures also may result in deformities, speech problems and scarring.

To aid burn victims, Army physicians have used polyethylene foam on damaged tissue that applies a vacuum to promote healing in the wounds, Hale said.

"We couldn't use that on the face because topographically the face is very complex," he said. "We couldn't get a good seal."

Plastic surgeons had shown Hale a three-dimensional, clear silicone mask that compressed the burns slightly to avoid lumpy scars. Engineers were called on to mesh the technologies and develop a better device.

"We wanted something that blended restorative medicine and tissue engineering," Hale said. "That's where UT Arlington came in. Engineers are problem-solvers, and they're solving this one right now."

The Biomask will be embedded with arrays of sensing and treatment components. The components will allow localized monitoring and localized activation of treatment that can be applied to different parts of the wound as needed, Moss said. The sensors will provide physicians feedback about the healing process and help them direct appropriate therapy to different tissues.

"We think the Biomask will become the ultimate tool for treating burns," Moss said. "It's a thinking device. As the wounds heal, the Biomask will be able to adjust treatment to provide faster and better results."

Moss said she and members of her team have traveled to San Antonio where Hale has shared the stories of soldiers with traumatic injuries that may benefit from her work.

"That really put the research into perspective," Moss said. "It helps us keep focused on the goal, that of improving these soldiers' lives."

Moss's work is representative of the groundbreaking research under way at The University of Texas at Arlington, a comprehensive research institution of 33,439 students in the heart of North Texas. Visit http://www.uta.edu to learn more.

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16-01-2012 01:56 SUVARNA NEWS 24X7 - http://www.suvarnanews.tv - 16 Jan 2011 - Banglore First Dental Stem Cell Bank is Now Open - Suvarna news

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11-01-2012 15:51 If you missed the opportunity to bank your child's cord blood, banking your child's baby or wisdom teeth is an option worth considering! StemSave offers recovery, transport and cryopreservation of the valuable stem cells found in teeth.An easy adjunct to the extraction of any healthy tooth, (examples include: wisdom teeth, baby teeth, tooth extractions related to orthodontia) StemSaving is easy and is available through your Dentist. For more information on banking teeth stem cells for your family's future health, visit http://www.stemsave.com or call 877-783-6728 (877-StemSave) today

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11-01-2012 11:36 StemSave offers recovery, transport and cryopreservation of the valuable stem cells found in teeth. An easy adjunct to the extraction of any healthy tooth, (examples include: wisdom teeth, baby teeth, tooth extractions related to orthodontia) StemSaving is easy and is available through your Dentist. For more information on banking teeth stem cells for your family's future health, visit http://www.stemsave.com or call 877-783-6728 (877-StemSave) today

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GeneCell International is one of the leaders in the field of stem cell banking. We operate a laboratory that focuses on processing and cryopreserving of stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood, dental pulp, adipose tissue, other tissues, and cells that can be cryogenically preserved. Our purpose is to provide families with the highest quality stem cell products and services and the best customer service, unparalleled scientific excellence and innovative leadership in the areas of stem cell collection, processing and cryopreservation

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As with umbilical cord blood banking, GeneCell International is at the forefront of the research and the technology developed to process and store stem cells found within the dental pulp. Although most people are familiar with banking cord , few people are aware of the advantages of harvesting stem cells from the dental pulp: •Dental pulp can be obtained unobtrusively as children or adults lose teeth •The stem cells found in dental pulp are non-controversial adult stem cells (mesenchymal stem cells) •Dental pulp stem cells are excellent candidates for regenerative medicine and tissue engineering applications GeneCell International is committed to excellence in cell processing and cryogenically storing your dental pulp stem cells

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Ian MacKenzie is Professor of Stem Cell Science at the Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. This talk was given on the 8th of July 2011 as part of a research opportunities day oraganised by Saving Faces. The aim of the day was to make specialist doctors in Oral and Maxillofacial surgery aware of current research underway in their field and highlight ways in which they could become involved.

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The first short film movie release from Stem Cell Block Pictures. Here we really see the power of GOD as they extract one of the biggest teeth this dentist has ever seen out of Juren's (Ms.

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A great video featuring promise held by a new study from Case Western Reserve University on Adult Stem Cell treatment for Multiple Sclerosis.

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This presentation will examine the biology of stem cells and show you how you can improve your surgical cases by utilizing stem cells. This is part of a new movement in molecular and cellular enhancement of bone regeneration surgery.

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