HarvardScience “GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) today announced that they have entered into a five-year, $25 million-plus collaborative agreement to build a unique...
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Harvard Stem Cell Institute “Less than 27 months after announcing that he had institutional permission to attempt the creation of patient and disease-specific stem cell lines,...
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Nature “Stanford University is to tell its researchers that around one-quarter of the human embryonic stem-cell lines eligible for US government funding are now off-limits because...
US News and World Report Researchers at Harvard have reported that they have managed to repair damaged muscles in mice with a form of muscular dystrophy...
EurekAlert Adult cells of mice created from genetically reprogrammed cells can be triggered via a drug to enter an embryonic-stem cell like state, without the need...
Nature “Many couples are faced with the unpleasant choice between not having a child of their own and risking the passing on of a debilitating disease. ...
KaiserNetwork.org “The Wall Street Journal on Saturday profiled researcher Donald Landry, chair of Columbia University’s Department of Medicine, who has proposed a laboratory technique that could...
Nature Reports: Stem Cells Countries with less restrictive policies for deriving human embryonic stem cells produce more than their expected share of scientific publications in the...
MRC Press Release “The Medical Research Council and the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the state's stem cell agency, have announced an international collaboration...
Canadian Press “A Canadian-led international research team has determined how to grow early – stage human heart cells from embryonic stem cells, a step that could...
BBC News “Scientists have moved a step closer to creating functioning heart tissue for transplants in the lab.” Read more »
Reuters “German lawmakers voted on Friday to ease restrictions on stem cell research although the approved changes did not go as far as many scientists had...
Nature “Investors, biotech companies and other stem-cell stakeholders are meeting in Gaithersburg, Maryland, this week for the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) first public hearing...
Technology Review “A study in rodents suggests that skin cells can be transformed ino neurons to treat neurodegeneration.”Read more »
