Ethical dilemma in fetal stem cell research – UK stroke study
“The world’s first clinical trial of brain stem cells to treat stroke has recorded no adverse effects to date, BBC News has reported. The BBC website reports that research using stem cells to treat...
View Article(All Are Adult Stem Cells) CIRM
Planning awards advance new therapies for Huntington’s disease, critical limb ischemia, airway disease, HIV/AIDS and osteoporosis The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the state...
View ArticleNew Class of Stem Cell-Like Cells Discovered in Spinal Cord Offers...
This is exciting, although preliminary, research results. These researchers used what is known about stem cells to look for existing cells in the spinal cord. The genes that “switch on and off” are now...
View ArticleHigh-priced mice for science at Texas A&M
This article from the Texas A&M newspaper describes the medical research with “knockout” mice, or mice that have a specific gene turned off. The University’s Texas Institute of Genomic Medicine ,...
View ArticleCelltex hires Glenn McGee (To Texas from New York)
Y’all remember Gleen McGee? He’s the guy from Texas who daydreams about Richard Doerflinger and who resigned over accusations that he was less than ethical.what’s was one of the people I wrote about in...
View ArticleScientists Explore (Adult) Stem Cells to Treat Diabetic Blindness
Great news about ethical treatment for a common complication of diabetes, from the Voice of America: Stitt, who directs the Queen’s University Center for Vision and Vascular Science, is participating...
View ArticleDistinct niches in bone marrow nurture blood stem cells | Science Codex
The future of stem cell research: determine which conditions make the right stem cells in the body work the way we want them to, using stimulating factors for the good and suppressing the bad ones that...
View ArticleBrain Is Command Center for Aging | The Scientist Magazine®
But, what and when are we going to do about it? Hurry! Inflammation in the hypothalamus may underlie aging of the entire body, according to a study published today (May 1) in Nature. Over-activation of...
View ArticleTexas Heart Institute’s Dr. Doris Taylor In The Forefront Of Heart Tissue...
Please note that Dr. Taylor uses adult stem cells, not destructive embryonic stem cells! Dr. Taylor, one of the world’s leading cell therapy and cardiac regeneration scientists, joined the THI in March...
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