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(Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center) A spray-on skin product and an injectable cell therapy for heart attack patients are among 17 regenerative medicine technologies that will be showcased during the Translational Regenerative Medicine Forum, set for April 6-8 in Winston-Salem.

(Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center) The first Translational Regenerative Medicine Forum, set for April 6-8 in Winston-Salem, N.C., will bring together leaders in research, health care policy, venture investment and the biotech industry to address the challenges of delivering regenerative medicine therapies to patents.

(Case Western Reserve University) The National Center for Regenerative Medicine at Case Western Reserve University presents "MSC 2011: Innovations in Cell-Based Regenerative Therapies," a three-day forum to highlight breakthroughs in the area of adult stem cell medicine with a focus on how this research is being applied in patient care settings through innovative clinical trials. This symposium takes place Aug. 22- 24.

(NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute) Advances in tissue engineering and stem cell therapies will be among the research topics discussed during the National Institutes of Health’s fourth Symposium on Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine, which will be held Oct. 4-5.

(Program on Life Sciences, Ethics and Policy,McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health) Chinese researchers have become the world's fifth most prolific contributors to peer-reviewed scientific literature on clock-reversing regenerative medicine even as a skeptical international research community condemns the practice of Chinese clinics administering unproven stem cell therapies to domestic and foreign patients.

(Schwartz Communications) BioParadox Inc., a regenerative medicine company pioneering point-of-care biologic treatments for cardiovascular disease, today announced data supporting the use of VitaKine Platelet Cell Therapy as a promising treatment for heart attack patients. The results of a preclinical cardiac study were presented at the 2nd Annual Translational Regenerative Medicine Forum in Washington, D.C.

Human colon stem cells have been identified and grown in a petri dish for the first time. This achievement is a crucial advance towards regenerative medicine.

(Albert Einstein College of Medicine) A study led by a researcher at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has revealed a unique "partnership" between two types of bone marrow stem cells, which could lead to advances in regenerative medicine.

(University of California - Los Angeles) In a study published today in Nature Communications, a team of stem cell biologists and engineers at UCLA, using a feedback system control scheme, innovatively and efficiently identify an optimal combination and concentration of small molecule inhibitors from a very large pool of possibilities to support the long-term maintenance of human embryonic stem cells. This is a major advancement towards the quest to broadly transition regenerative medicine from the bench top to the clinic.