Alabama stem cell research efforts get anonymous $1M giftBirmingham Business Journal“This donor’s generosity and foresight will ensure that stem cell research moves forward and thrives in Alabama, adding to the economic well-being of our state, while making strides toward life-changing impacts for patients who we hope will benefit … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
The Times of IsraelBritish Prime Minister David Cameron looks through a microscope at half-developed embryonic stem cells as Dr. Sharona Even-Ram of the Hadassah Medical Center tells him and President Shimon Peres about how the cells can be used to treat Parkinson’s … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
Stem cell controversy highlights difficulty of judging contrarian researchBoston.com (blog)The strangest and most gripping story in science over the past few weeks has been the Japanese and Boston stem–cell papers, in which researchers appeared to show that mature mouse blood cells could be transformed into powerful stem cells with a … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
Medical Xpress“We want to know if stem cell therapy is an option for patients who have essentially run out of options,” said Dr. Adam Berman, electrophysiologist at the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University and Director of Cardiac Arrhythmia … and more …read more &nbs… Continue reading
Crave OnlineDiscovery Science is airing a new one-hour special entitled “Stem Cell Universe With Stephen Hawking,” a groundbreaking special that examines embryonic stem cells. The use of embryonic stem cells has ignited fierce debate across the spiritual and … and more …read more &nbs… Continue reading
Stem cell therapy may help severe congestive heart failureEurekAlert (press release)Augusta, Ga. – Researchers want to know whether patients with debilitating heart failure can benefit by having their own stem cells injected into their ailing heart muscle. The severe condition is ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy, a currently incurable … and more …read more &nbs… Continue reading
Local 10Scientists hailed a new method of making stem cells as a breakthrough. But questions about the data used for the two studies published in Nature in January have led one of the co-authors to call for a retraction. Researchers had said they could turn … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
Leukemia patient pins hopes on OneMatch stem cell donor registryToronto StarThat’s why the 36-year-old man with acute myeloid leukemia keeps his cellphone within reach, waiting to hear that a stem cell donor has been found and he’ll get the bone marrow transplant he needs. Taylor, who was diagnosed in July 2012, has already … …read … Continue reading