Geron Press Release “CHALFONT ST. GILES, UK & MENLO PARK, Calif., June 30, 2009 – GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), and...
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“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...
Nature Editorial “The draft NIH guidelines on stem-cell research are a good first step, but some revision is needed.” Read More »
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 »
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...
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...
Nature Reports “Finding the right way to protect cells, and intellectual property, will be key for getting cell therapy to patients.”Read More »
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...
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...
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...
Christopher Fasano, a NYSCF – Druckenmiller Fellow, has been selected to present a talk at the upcoming International Society for Stem Cell Research Conference.
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 »
Nature Reports “Molecules that replace, sustain pluripotency factors make “non-permissive” mouse strains yield stable embryonic stem cells.”Read More »
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 »
“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...
Nature, Research Highlights “Ever since Kyoto University's Shinya Yamanaka showed that cultured skin cells could be made to behave like embryonic stem cells by the addition...
Science “They are not perfect, but they're a big improvement over what scientists have been living with since 2001.” Read More »
Pfizer Press Release “Pfizer Regenerative Medicine today announced that it has entered into a collaboration and license agreement with University College London focused on gaining better...
The New York Times “The Obama administration took the easy political path on embryonic stem cells last week by proposing to pay for research only on stem...
The New York Stem Cell Foundation has received a grant from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Foundation to provide seed funding for the initial...
Nature “The National Institutes of Health today released a comprehensive set of draft guidelines intended to govern federally funded human embryonic stem cell research.” Read More...
Guidelines are major step forward; NYSCF hopes to continue dialogue for improvement of scientific advancement.
