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Kadimastem Obtains US Patent for Neurodegenerative Disease Stem Cell Technology – Multiple Sclerosis News Today

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2017-03-21 NEWS

Multiple Sclerosis News Today

Kadimastem Obtains US Patent for Neurodegenerative Disease Stem Cell Technology
Multiple Sclerosis News Today
The United States has granted a patent to Kadimastem’s stem cell-based technology for treating multiple sclerosis (MS) and other diseases of the nervous system. The patent involves the technology the company used to produce supporting cells in the

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BRIEF-Thermo Fisher Scientific and Cell And Gene Therapy Catapult collaborate
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Human Stem Cells with Plant-Based Scaffolds Demonstrate Optimized Growth
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison are using the decellularized husks of plants such as parsley, vanilla, and orchids to form three-dimensional scaffolds that can then be primed and seeded with human stem cells to optimize their growth
Parsley and other plants lend form to human stem cell scaffolds …EurekAlert (press release)

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Ethical Guidelines on Lab-Grown Embryos Beg for Revamping, Scientists Say
Scientific American
But thanks to advances in synthetic biology, the scientists warn in the new paper that researchers will someday be able to skip such developmental steps—creating humanlike collections of organs that do not have to go through these early embryonic

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