Stem cell studies spur new ethical debateThe Herald | HeraldOnline.com (press release)Controversies over stem–cell research are so last decade – or so it seemed until last week. For the last few years, the promising field of stem–cell research has focused on a technique that skirts various ethical concerns about the treatment of human …Cloners Eggs-periment … Continue reading
Adult Stem Cell Research Shows PromiseFDA.govHeba Degheidy, M.D., Ph.D., a post-doctoral research fellow at FDA, stores stem cell samples for analysis in an FDA laboratory on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus in Bethesda, Md. …read more &nbs… Continue reading
VistaGen Receives Notice of Allowance for US Patent Expanding Stem Cell …MarketWatchSOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Apr 23, 2014 (Marketwired via COMTEX) — VistaGen Therapeutics, Inc. (otcqb:VSTA), a biotechnology company applying pluripotent stem cell technology for drug rescue and regenerative medicine, today announced that the … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
Probe finished in controversial stem–cell therapyGazzetta del Sud englishTurin, April 23 – Prosecutors said Wednesday they have completed their investigation into a controversial stem–cell treatment involving 20 individuals, including Davide Vannoni, founder of the Stamina Foundation. The notice means prosecutors could now … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
Examiner.comOn April 22, the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center announced that one of its members, Dr. Owen Witte, director of UCLA’s Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research was a 2014 inductee into the American … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
Innovative Blue Horizon Stem Cell Therapies benefit NYC-based Real Estate …PR Newswire (press release)NEW YORK, April 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Gerard Rem, MBA Harvard graduate and NYC-based real estate investor, learned about the extraordinary benefits of the Blue Horizon International stem cell treatment from a friend who had traveled to China on …Dr. Brian Mehling … Continue reading
ExtremeTechUsing that general method, researchers have just succeeded in returning adult somatic (body) cells to a virgin stem cell state which can then be made into nearly any tissue. The key word here is “adult.” Last year, researchers from Oregon perfected a … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
Stem cells show bizarre absorption property ‘not seen before in cells’Medical News TodayScientists at the University of Cambridge in the UK have discovered that the nuclei of stem cells have the unusual ability to become thicker when stretched and thinner when compressed. The counterintuitive property – termed auxeticity – is already … …read more &nbs… Continue reading