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  1. New lab for clinical grade stem cells is completed in Sheffield

    The Centre for Stem Cell Biology (CSCB) at the University of Sheffield is opening a new laboratory capable of producing embryonic stem cell lines that can be used in medical treatments. The facility represents a crucial step towards using these stem cells to treat degenerative and chronic conditions such as diabetes and Parkinson's disease and to repair tissues after accidents or cancer.

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  2. Nobel Laureate to open revolutionary labs

    Nobel Prize winner Professor Sir Paul Nurse FRS, will officially open the Wellcome Trust & the Wolfson Foundation Facility for Molecular Life Sciences at the University of Sheffield on Thursday 3 November 2005. The facility, which spans the Departments of Biomedical Science and of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, will revolutionise multi-disciplinary research in developmental genetics and biomedical science, regenerative medicine, molecular biology, genetics and microbiology.

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  3. Professor Phil Ingham wins worldwide recognition for contribution to genetics

    Professor Philip Ingham FRS, of the University of Sheffield, has been awarded the 2005 Genetics Society medal for his outstanding research contribution to developmental genetics. He was presented with the medal by the president of the Genetics Society, Prof. Jonathan Hodgkin FRS, after delivering a lecture at a one day meeting organised by the Society at the Centre for Life in Newcastle on Saturday 7 May 2005.

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  4. UK research could lead to new treatments for Parkinson's

    MRC Centre for Developmental and Biomedical Genetics members to receive a share of $3.6m from the Michael J. Fox Foundation to research potential causes and treatments for Parkinson's Disease.

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  5. Stem cells could prevent blindness and restore hearing

    Centre for Stem Cell Biology member Dr Marcelo Rivolta is working on what could be part of a new treatment for deafness in people with certain types of hearing loss.

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  6. Hopes for new cell therapies 'stem' from Sheffield

    The Centre for Stem Cell Biology (CSCB) at the University of Sheffield is welcoming some of the world's leading experts to its International Human Embryonic Stem Cell Symposium on Friday 9 July 2004.

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  7. International stem cell conference unites leading UK and Indian scientists in efforts to transform r

    Scientists in the University of Sheffield’s Centre for Stem Cell Biology were the first in the UK to work on embryonic stem cells in 1999 and continue to train scientists from around the world in the techniques which it hopes will transform regenerative medicine.

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