Personalized cancer therapy gets closer
Nature News “The long-awaited era of personalized genetic medicine may finally be arriving for people with cancer.” Read More »
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Stem Cell Decision Worries Some Scientists
The New York Times “LOS ANGELES “Ó While praised by scientists, President Obama's decision to lift restrictions on federal financing of embryonic stem cell research could...
Why Science Can’t Save the GOP
Time Magazine “No one is happier than I am about the latest development in stem-cell research. Scientists in Japan and Wisconsin have independently figured out how...
Overdue Shot in the Arm for Science
New York Post, March 10, 2009 Read more »
Stem Cell Decision Worries Some Scientists
The New York Times, March 10, 2009 Read more »
Stem Cell Researchers Celebrate “÷Wide-Open’ World
Crain’s Health Pulse, March 10, 2009 Read more »
President Obama signs executive order lifting restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research
The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) today applauded President Barack Obama’s executive order overturning a Bush Administration policy that, for eight years, restricted the use...
Obama overturns stem-cell ban
Nature News “President’s executive order will allow US human embryonic stem-cell research to thrive at last.” Read More »
Debrief: The Embryonic Stem Cell Debate
CBS News: Political Hotsheet, March 9, 2009 Read more »
Eight Reasons to Applaud Action on Stem Cells
Center for American Progress, March 9, 2009 Read more »
Obama overturns Bush policy on stem cell research
Guardian, March 9, 2009 Read more »
Obama Reverses Bush on Stem Cells
The Christian Science Monitor, March 9, 2009 Read more »
Stem Cell Breakthrough Hailed as End to Ethical Dilemma
Reuters, March 9, 2009 Read more »
Life Science Conflict Grows from Stem Cells
The Harvard Crimson “Only a few years ago, former University President Lawrence H. Summers told alumni in Washington that Harvard could soon resemble Renaissance Florence. The...
Converting Cells Shows Promise for Parkinson’s
The New York Times “In a striking instance of biologists’ new prowess at manipulating human cells, researchers at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Mass., have converted...
Human embryonic stem cells hit a nerve
Nature Reports “A new technique can differentiate more neurons from hES cells in less time.” Read More »
Korean egg-donor lawsuit thrown out of court
Nature, News in Brief “On 18 February, Seoul District Court in South Korea rejected a lawsuit about the egg-donation procedures used in the cloning research of...
Virus-free iPS cells
Nature, Editor’s Summary “The discovery that non-germline adult cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent, able to differentiate into any cell type, opened up exciting possibilities.”...
Top scientist’s industry move heralds stem-cell shift
Nature, News”Stephen Minger is one of the leading stem-cell scientists in the United Kingdom, known for his work both as a researcher and as a high-profile...
Stem cell therapy triggers tumor
The Scientist: Newsblog “A neural stem cell transplant from fetal cells performed in Russia led to a brain tumor in a teenage boy, researchers in this...
Q&A with Haifan Lin: peeling back layers of stem cell control
Nature Reports Stem Cells “Haifan Lin directs the Stem Cell Center at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where he uses genetics, cell biology and biochemistry...
Man appears free of HIV after stem cell transplant
CNN.com “A 42-year-old HIV patient with leukemia appears to have no detectable HIV in his blood and no symptoms after a stem cell transplant from a...
Financial Crisis: California Researchers Chilled by Sudden Freeze on Bond Funds
Science “For many California researchers, the bad news came just before the holidays: As a result of the state's deteriorating financial situation, the department of finance...
Hybrid Embryos Fail to Live up to Stem-Cell Hopes
Nature News Researchers find problems in the strategy to create pluripotent cells from human-animal hybrid embryos. Read more »
Guidelines target stem cell medical tourism
Amednews.com [American Medical News] “Growing numbers of clinics abroad are marketing unproven, costly stem cell therapies to medical tourists and “exploiting patients’ hopes,” according to a...