All posts by: Michael Zand

Startup says $12.5M will help make stem cells available for research
Boston Business Journal (blog)
Orig3n has been building a repository of people’s cells since earlier this year, transforming them into stem cells to test medicines and understand disease. Recent funding was led by Hatteras Venture Partners and Syno Capital, with participation from …

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Startup says $12.5M will help make stem cells available for research
Boston Business Journal (blog)
Orig3n has been building a repository of people’s cells since earlier this year, transforming them into stem cells to test medicines and understand disease. Recent funding was led by Hatteras Venture Partners and Syno Capital, with participation from …

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Stem cells likely to be safe for use in regeneration medicine, study confirms
Medical Xpress
Cambridge researchers have found the strongest evidence to date that human pluripotent stem cells—cells that can give rise to all tissues of the body—will develop normally once transplanted into an embryo. The findings, published today in the journal …
Scientists use human stem cells to create serotonin, an important brain chemicalInternational Business Times AU
Cambridge study shows stem cells could be safely transplanted into human embryosCambridge News
Aussie neurologists to lead stem cell trial for Parkinson’s6minutes

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New research uncovers processes driving planarian stem cell differentiation
Phys.Org
A picture of an abundant stem cell population (green) helps maintain the ciliated epithelium (red) and other tissues of an adult planarian flatworm. Credit: Image courtesy of Elizabeth Duncan, PhD, Sánchez Alvarado Lab, Stowers Institute for Medical …

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Stem cell transplantation does not provide significant improvement for Crohn’s …
EurekAlert (press release)
A clinical trial to test the effectiveness of a stem cell therapy among adults with difficult to treat Crohn’s disease has found it is not significantly better than conventional treatment in producing sustained disease remission after one year. Crohn’s …

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China donates first stem cells to Malaysia
Malaysiakini (subscription)
A Chinese man has donated hemopoietic stem cells (HSCs) to a patient with blood disease in Malaysia, reports Xinhua news agency. Lu, 22, from south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, signed up to be a stem cell donor with the China Marrow …

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