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1. Cells -- Stem Cells
   In 1997, Cells for Life started as a small company with the belief that there was a need to store and process umbilical cord stem cells. At that time, there was increasing medical-based evidence and case reports that these cells were capable of treating many diseases and cancers. Today, over 70 diseases have been successfully treated worldwide with umbilical cord blood stem cells.
2. Michael J. Fox -- Stem Cell Research
   In late October 2006, Fox appeared in a television campaign commercial, endorsing Claire McCaskill, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Missouri and opposing incumbent senator Jim Talent for his specific opposition to federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. Fox ... made similar ads in Wisconsin (supporting Governor Jim Doyle) and in Maryland, endorsing senatorial candidate Congressman Ben Cardin. All three of the endorsed politicians won their respective elections.
3. Cells
   Cells are the smallest component of the body that can perform all of the basic life functions. Each cell performs specialized functions and plays a role in the maintenance of homeostasis. While each cell is an independent entity, it is highly affected by damage to neighboring cells. These various cell types combine to form tissues, which are basically collections of specialized cells that perform a relatively limited number of functions specific to that type of tissue. The human body is made up of several trillion cells; these cells are of various types, which can differ greatly in size, appearance and function.
4. Cell -- Cells
   The STI Design Center opened in March 2001.[12] The Cell was designed over a period of four years, using enhanced versions of the design tools for the POWER4 processor. Over 400 engineers from the three companies worked together in Austin, with critical support from eleven of IBM's design centers.[12]
5. Cells -- Nerve Cells
   There is some evidence suggesting that adult stem cells ... have this ability. An adult stem cell that has been assigned to become a vascular system cell may, in fact, reassign to become a kind of nerve cell under the right conditions. This has not yet been proven conclusively.
6. Cell -- Cell Technology
   Cell Genesys is pursuing gene therapies for hemophilia A and hemophilia B -- genetic deficiencies in factor VIII and factor IX clotting factor genes, respectively. Cell Genesys has four different gene delivery systems and is using this technology "toolbox" to capture multiple product opportunities. The company's proprietary vector technologies include AAV, lentiviral, adenoviral and retroviral vectors engineered to provide safe and efficient therapeutic gene expression. In Cell Genesys' preclinical program for hemophilia B, an AAV vector system is employed since the factor IX gene is small enough to fit in this vector. For hemophilia A, the company has the option of employing an AAV vector system if a truncated form of the factor VIII gene can be successfully applied or a lentiviral vector system if the full length gene is required for optimal production of the deficient clotting factor protein. Successful delivery of the clotting factor genes is expected to result in production of the clotting factor proteins, representing a potential new approach to the treatment for hemophilia patients.
7. Cells -- Teams
   Intrigued by this phenomenon, Young and his team believed that if they could identify and harness the key molecules used by stem cells to gain access into the injured retina, they could potentially improve the success of non- stem cell transplants. Based on this idea, the team conducted a series of experiments.
8. Cells -- Mice
   Yamanaka's team reported this summer that, when they fused the newly created stem cells with a mouse embryo, they were able to produce living mice carrying the genes originally derived from skin cells. But these cloned mice subsequently developed neck tumors.
9. Cells -- Tissues
   Cells in Motion - In multicellular tissues, such as those found in animals and humans, individual cells employ a variety of locomotion mechanisms to maneuver through spaces in the extracellular matrix and over the surfaces of other cells. Examples are the rapid movement of cells in developing embryos, organ-to-organ spreading of malignant cancer cells, and the migration of neural axons to synaptic targets. Unlike single-celled swimming organisms, crawling cells in culture do not possess cilia or flagella, but tend to move by coordinated projection of the cytoplasm in repeating cycles of extension and retraction that deform the entire cell. The digital videos presented in this gallery investigate animal cell motility patterns in a wide variety of morphologically different specimens.
10. Cells -- Diseases
    About Diabetes Type 1, or insulin-dependent, diabetes occurs when the pancreas ceases to produce insulin due to an autoimmune response that causes the selective destruction of insulin producing cells. People with Type 1 diabetes must take daily insulin and are candidates for pancreatic islet cell transplantation, which provides the potential to treat the disease. The disease is most common in children and young adults, accounting for approximately 10 percent of diabetes cases. The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation estimates that more than 1.1 million people suffer from Type 1 diabetes in the United States alone. Additionally, approximately 30 percent of people with Type 2, or non-insulin dependent, diabetes require insulin therapy and could potentially benefit from islet cell transplantation.

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