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...
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.
Nature, Editor’s Summary “Neurons that produce dopamine as a neurotransmitter control a broad variety of brain functions, including motor control, cognition, motivation and pleasure.” Read More...
Nature “Genome Canada, a not-for-profit organization, has pulled its support for an international stem-cell consortium.” Read More »
Nature, News in Brief “The Roman Catholic Church has reaffirmed its opposition to human embryonic stem- cell research in a document that updates its 20-year-old position...
Nature, News “The drug industry is keener on stem-cell technologies than ever before — and not just as a source of new treatments.”Read More »
Science Progress CAP Senior Fellow Rick Weiss covered science and medicine for The Washington Post for 15 years, and now he brings his investigative eye to...
Science “With dramatic shifts in both the economic and political landscape for stem cell research, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM)”Óa state initiative set up...
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Nature Editorial “Now that the US federal funding ban on human embryonic stem cells is lifted, scientists must engage the public’s concerns about embryo research.” Read...
The Hastings Center, Press Release “President's Council on Bioethics members Gilbert Meilaender, Ph.D., and Paul McHugh, M.D., and eight of the other 18 Council members take...