The Wall Street Journal – Salutes to the Creative Class
Up at Jazz at Lincoln Center, the New York Stem Cell Foundation honored the artist Christo and the former hedge fund manager Julian H. Robertson Jr....
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British Scientist Working To Cure Common Form Of Blindness Named Recipient Of Inaugural NYSCF – Robertson Prize In Stem Cell Research
The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) announced today that Dr. Peter J. Coffey, a British stem cell scientist working to cure blindness, will be the...
NYSCF Awards $10.5 Million to Seven New Investigators
The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) today named seven of the nation’s most promising young scientists as its 2011 class of NYSCF – Robertson Investigators. ...
2011 Conference Registration Closed
Registration for the 2011 Conference has closed. There will be limited registration available at the door.
The Economist – Stem Cells: The Nuclear Option
This week Scott Noggle of the New York Stem Cell Foundation, a charitable research institute, and his colleagues report a step towards that goal. In a...
CNN Health – Scientists hail gain in human embryonic stem cell research
For the first time, researchers have succeeded in creating human embryonic stem cells by injecting DNA from a skin cell into an unfertilized egg, according to...
Scientists at New York Stem Cell Foundation, Columbia U. Make Advance in Development of Patient-Specific Stem Cells
As reported on October 5th in Nature, for the first time scientists have derived embryonic stem cells from individual patients by adding the nuclei of adult...
The New York Times – A New Approach Shows Promise
Stem cell research has had many ups and downs, but a stream of setbacks had left researchers almost back at square one. Now, researchers at the...
The Washington Post – Scientists report possibly crucial advance in human embryonic stem cell research
Scientists reported Wednesday that for the first time they had used cloning techniques to generate embryonic stem cells containing the genes of specific patients. The step...
Nature – Cloned human embryo makes working stem cells
Scientists at the New York Stem Cell Foundation Laboratory have reprogrammed an adult human egg cell to an embryonic state using cloning technology and created a...
NYSCF Convenes Sixth Annual Translational Stem Cell Research Conference
National and international leaders in translational stem cell research will present their latest research findings on how advances in stem cell science will eventually lead to...
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Paul Tesar Creates Cells That Die in Multiple Sclerosis
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator, Dr. Paul Tesar of Case Western Reserve University, published in Nature Methods today that they have succesfully produced the myelinating cells that...
The Wall Street Journal – On a Mission to Eliminate Diabetes
EAST HAMPTON—This weekend, the attorney John Eastman and his wife, Jodie, hosted cocktails and dinner for the New York Stem Cell Foundation at their home. It...
Judge Dismisses Suit on Federal Stem Cell Research
7/27/11 A lawsuit that had threatened to end the Obama administration’s funding of embryonic stem cell research was dismissed on Wednesday, allowing the U.S. to continue...
Stanford study shows stem cell treatment improves survival of patients with metastatic breast cancer
American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation 7/18/11 Treating stage IV breast cancer patients with high dose chemotherapy followed by a rescue with their own blood...
How Do Tumors Grow?
An alternative explanation for cancer’s origins could lead to better therapies Scientific American 7/29 Oncologists have long worked under the assumption that most tumors develop from...
Stem Cell ‘Memory’ Can Boost Insulin Levels
Cell 7/4 Researchers under Prof. Shimon Efrat at Tel Aviv University have found that iPS cells retain a “memory” of what they once were so that,...
Scientists Grow Brain Cells from Skin: Cancer Cells and Stem Cells Share Same Origin, Research Shows
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 7/13 Scientists at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California have shown that oncogenes (the...
Stem cell clinics ripping off patients, bullying scientists
MSNBC 6/28 Stem cell clinics that make claims about the power of their stem cell “cures” have the potential to damage the credibility of the entire...
Learn About International Stem Cell Policy
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Firm Launches Two Stem Cell Trials Against Blindness
Nature News 7/14/11 The second and third human embryonic stem cell therapy trials have been launched. The first subject in each of the trials- one for...
Stem Cell Breakthrough Raises Hope of Ending Hunt for Bone Marrow
Science 7/08/11 Scientists led by John Dick at Toronto’s University Health Network say that they have finally captured the stem cell that has the potential to...
Representative DeGette Renews Bid to Pass Stem-Cell Legislation
DenverPost 6/30/11 U.S. Representative Diana DeGette unveils her latest legislative effort to support embryonic stem cell research. This bill would codify the NIH’s guidelines for carrying...
Stem Cell Miracle? New Therapies May Cure Chronic Conditions
Time 6/15/11 Time Mazaine has completed a review of the ongoing clinical trials involving stem cells. Trials are being being undertaken involving retinal pigment epithelium cells...
US Attitudes Toward Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Nature 6/21/11 A large, representative sample survey has been performed to estimate the US population’s attitudes toward human embryonic stem cell research. Read More