Stem Cell Therapy To Fix The Heart: A House Of Cards About To Fall?ForbesFor more than a decade cardiac stem cell therapy has attracted an enormous amount of attention, promise, and research dollars. Now an original and important new study published in BMJ finds that many of the most promising results in the field are … Continue reading
MedCity NewsShare This Story. IV drip hospital patient Edited to include comments from CEO. Halfway through its first large-scale efficacy trial, Athersys’s experimental stem cell therapy did not provide significant benefit to patients with moderate-to-severe …Athersys Inc. stem cell therapy for bowel disease fails to show ‘meaningful …Crain’s Cleveland BusinessAthersys stem–cell therapy for bowel disease … Continue reading
Daily MailEgli told reporters that these cells have shown promise in animal tests, but that he could not estimate a timetable for human experiments. The new work is the third report of using the cloning approach to make human stem cells, and the first using the … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
CBS NewsDoug Melton of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, who was not involved with the work, called the paper an impressive technical achievement. But he said he believed the cells would be useful as a research tool rather than a source of transplants. They … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
Guardian Liberty VoiceIt is being reported that cloning technologies have been used to create stem cells which are genetically identical to adult patients for the first time ever. However there are not any genuine scientists who want to try to clone humans. Yet cloned … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
Science NewsNobel Prize winner Shinya Yamanaka today joined a growing crowd of Japanese stem cell scientists who have held press conferences in recent weeks to apologize for mistakes in published papers. Yamanaka discovered in 2006 a way to reprogram adult …Japanese Nobel Winner Latest to Apologize Over Stem–Cell ResearchWall Street Journal (blog)Japanese Nobel laureate also … Continue reading
Stem Cell Advance May Bring New Diabetes TreatmentsHuffington PostThe new work is a step toward providing genetically matched replacement cells for transplant, said Dieter Egli of the New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute in New York. He led the research, which was reported online Monday in the journal … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
WDIV DetroitFor the first time, cloning technologies have been used to generate stem cells that are genetically matched to adult patients. Fear not: No legitimate scientist is in the business of cloning humans. But cloned embryos can be used as a source for stem … …read more &nbs… Continue reading