After 14 years, California’s stem cell agency finally gets a royalty cheque – BioEdge
BioEdge |
After 14 years, California’s stem cell agency finally gets a royalty cheque
BioEdge Fourteen years after Californians voted an overwhelming Yes! to stem cell research, including human embryonic stem cells, and created the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the agency has received its first royalty cheque. The … |
The Daily Herald |
The jury’s out on stem cell treatments for arthritic pain
The Daily Herald Last year, the federal Food and Drug Administration said that inflated health promises made by some unscrupulous stem cell clinics are galloping ahead of reality. “A select few, often motivated by greed without regard to responsible patient care, are … Families Hold Out Hope for Advances in Dental Stem Cell TherapyFOX40 Stem cell donor saves sibling’s life in SwedenSaudi Gazette Henlow fundraiser tells how she donated stem cells to save brother’s lifeComet 24 Lymphoma News Today –Digital Journal –Newburgh Gazette –e-Market Research all 28 news articles » |
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CRISPR Takes a Leap Forward With Huntington’s Disease
Yahoo News Basically, it allows the selective editing of genes, potentially allowing humans to fix errors that cause genetic diseases and any other number of science fiction-like applications. The main problem is CRISPR can cause mistakes in DNA after the cut … |
Financial Express |
Antibiotics may impact cancer treatment efficacy
Science Daily With this approach, physicians retrieve T cells from a patient’s blood, engineer them to express a tumor-finding receptor – called chimeric antigen receptor, or CAR – and give them back to the patient. These patients typically will receive a … Antibiotic use may affect efficacy of cancer immunotherapiesNews-Medical.net Antibiotics may impact cancer treatment efficacy | EurekAlert …EurekAlert (press release) Proceed with caution: Antibiotics may influence effectiveness of cancer treatmentHindustan Times The Siasat Daily all 3 news articles » |
The Hindu |
Dual mechanism for embryonic stem cells to maintain pluripotency
The Hindu Embryonic stem cells are capable of generating all the cell types that compose the organs and systems of the human body. Now, researchers at Pune’s National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS) have found a dual mechanism that keeps specific genes off, which … |