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...
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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...
Stem-Cell Biology: New Stem-Cell Formula
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...
Draft Stem Cell Guidelines Please Many, Disappoint Some
Science “They are not perfect, but they're a big improvement over what scientists have been living with since 2001.” Read More »
Pfizer And University College London Announce Collaboration To Advance Development Of Stem Cell-Based Therapies
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...
Stem Cell Compromise
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...
NYSCF Receives Grant for Diabetes Research from Helmsley Foundation
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...
NIH announces draft stem-cell guidelines
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...
NYSCF Supports Final NIH Stem Cell Guidelines
Guidelines are major step forward; NYSCF hopes to continue dialogue for improvement of scientific advancement.
Directing dopaminergic differentiation
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...
Genome Canada cancels stem-cell project funding
Nature “Genome Canada, a not-for-profit organization, has pulled its support for an international stem-cell consortium.” Read More »
Vatican formalizes rules on human stem-cell research
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...
Testing time for stem cells
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 »
Stem Cell Fairy Tales and Stem Cell Fables
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...
CIRM Close-Hauled, Seeks Bonds to Sustain Headway
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...
Barack Obama Adviser Harold Varmus Calls for Science as Diplomacy
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Embryonic Education
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...
Members of President’s Council on Bioethics Raise Objections to President Obama’s Stem Cell Policy in Bioethics Forum
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...