US bioethics commision promises policy action
Nature, News “Five months after abruptly dismantling the bioethics advisory council left by his predecessor, US President Barack Obama last week created a new bioethics commission...
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Stem Cell Guidelines
Crain’s Health, July 9, 2009 Read more »
Molecular Differences Between Embryonic Stem Cells And Reprogrammed Skin Cells
Medical News Today “UCLA researchers have found thatembryonic stem cells and skin cells reprogrammed into embryonic-like cells haveinherent molecular differences, demonstrating for the first time that...
Chief scientist quits California stem-cell agency
Nature News “The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) in San Francisco is again under the microscope, following the resignation of its chief scientific officer and...
Correcting Fanconi anaemia – healthy cells derived from diseased ones offer treatment hope
Nature “A group of scientists led by Juan Carlos Izpis̼a Belmonte, a developmental biologist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, wasted...
How to fix a broken heart?
Nature News “Clues about how human hearts form hint at routes to cell-based therapies.” Read More » See related article: “Human ISL1 heart progenitors generate diverse...
iPS cells three years on
Nature “In the three years since Kazutoshi Takahashi and Shinya Yamanaka first demonstrated the generation of iPS (induced pluripotent stem) cells from ‘normal’ somatic cells using...
GE Healthcare and Geron Announce Exclusive Global Agreement to Commercialize Stem Cell Drug Discovery Technologies
Geron Press Release “CHALFONT ST. GILES, UK & MENLO PARK, Calif., June 30, 2009 – GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), and...
$10,000 is an Egg-cellent Price, Says Stem Cell Panel
Daily News, June 26, 2009 Read more »
N.Y. to Pay for Eggs for Stem Cell Research Policy
The Washington Post, June 26, 2009 Read more »
An Industry to Grow
Financial Times, June 25, 2009 Read more »
Geron’s Okarma Urges Obama to Set Up Stem Cell Panel (Update1)
“President Barack Obama should appoint a commission on stem cell research to help the therapy fulfill its promise to save lives and reduce medical costs, Geron...
Stem-cell Clarity
Nature Editorial “The draft NIH guidelines on stem-cell research are a good first step, but some revision is needed.” Read More »
Embryonic-like Cells Advance Toward Disease Treatment
ScienceNOW “Two papers published this week appear to bring closer the day when embryonic-like stem cells can be used to treat human diseases.” Read More »
Genetic Re-disposition: Combined stem cell-gene therapy approach cures human genetic disease in vitro
Salk Institute, Press Release “A study led by researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, has catapulted the field of regenerative medicine significantly forward, proving...
Salk Scientists Claim Significant Step in Stem-cell Therapy
The Union-Tribune “Scientists at La Jolla’s Salk Institute for Biological Studies say they’ve taken a significant step toward using stem cells and gene therapy to cure...
Diabetes stem-cell treatment looks to cell capsules
Nature Reports “Finding the right way to protect cells, and intellectual property, will be key for getting cell therapy to patients.”Read More »
Stem-cell therapies closer to the clinic
Nature News “A group of researchers in the United States and South Korea today announced a leap towards safe, clinically useful patient-specific stem cells.” Read More...
Draft stem-cell guidelines criticized
Nature News “As the National Institutes of Health (NIH) begins finalizing guidelines to govern US funding of human embryonic stem-cell research, an initial ripple of researcher...
Sounds Great, but What Does He Really Mean?
Washington Post “Last week, President Obama told Sen. Orrin Hatch, the veteran Utah Republican, that he would appoint a ‘pragmatist, not a radical,’ to replace retiring...
NYSCF Fellow to present at International Conference
Christopher Fasano, a NYSCF – Druckenmiller Fellow, has been selected to present a talk at the upcoming International Society for Stem Cell Research Conference.
Elaine Fuchs: secrets of skin renewal
Nature Reports “Skin stem cells are constantly replacing and repairing the body’s surface. Fuchs says figuring out how this happens is a delight.” Read More »
New types of embryonic stem cells generated by stabilizing pluripotency
Nature Reports “Molecules that replace, sustain pluripotency factors make “non-permissive” mouse strains yield stable embryonic stem cells.”Read More »
Stem-cell therapy faces more scrutiny in China
Nature “Beijing – The Chinese Ministry of Health has implemented regulations on the clinical application of cutting-edge therapies such as stem-cell injections.” Read More »
Progress in Pluripotency
“It has been less than three years since Takahashi and Yamanaka demonstrated that viral transduction of the four-factor cocktail of Oct4, KLF4, Sox2, and c-Myc transgenes...