Stem Cell Therapy From Aastrom Biosciences and Cytori Therapeutics Looks to Gain Ground in 2012
NEW YORK, NY-- - Stem Cell stocks -- particularly companies focused on adult stems cells -- have performed well of late. Earlier this month Goldman Sachs noted the potential upside of Pluristem Continue Reading
China halts unapproved stem cell treatments
The Health Ministry ordered unapproved stem cell treatments stopped Tuesday as China tries to bring under control its growing but loosely regulated industry.The ministry stopped accepting Continue Reading
State Controller to Hold Hearing on Stem Cell Agency Finances
The only state body specifically charged with oversight of the $3 billion California stem cell agency and its board will meet next Friday in Los Angeles for a look at the enterprise's financial Continue Reading
LA Times: Deck Stacked at the IOM Hearing
The Los Angeles Times web site today carried a sharply worded piece about the upcoming Institute of Medicine hearing on the performance of the $3 billion California stem cell agency. Written by Continue Reading
Performance Review of California Stem Cell Agency Dominated by $418 Million Worth of Friendly Witnesses
The Institute of Medicine opens its inquiry in San Francisco next week into the performance of the $3 billion California stem cell agency with testimony from representatives of enterprises that have Continue Reading
Orkin Appointed to IOM-CIRM Performance Review Group
Scientist Stuart Orkin of Harvard, who headed the grant review group of the California stem cell agency for three years, today was named as a member of the blue-ribbon Institute of Medicine panel Continue Reading
California to Spend $40 Million for Two Stem Cell Genomic Centers
The California stem cell agency plans to spend $40 million to create two stem cell genomic research centers, including possibly one at a for-profit research enterprise. The proposal was approved Continue Reading
In Rare Negative Vote, CIRM Directors Nix $6.3 Million Grant Application
Directors of the California stem cell agency today rejected a $6.3 million grant to recruit an unidentified researcher to the Buck Institute after some of CIRM's grant reviewers raised Continue Reading
Text of IOM Responses to Questions About Selection of Its CIRM Witnesses
Here is the text of the questions posed this week by the California Stem Cell Report to the Institute of Medicine concerning its performance assessment of the $3 billion California stem cell agency Continue Reading
CIRM Board Meeting About to Resume
Directors of the California stem cell agency are about to resume their meeting with a discussion of future directions and Continue Reading
California Stem Cell Agency Slated for More Bond Funding This Spring
The California stem cell agency is slated to secure additional bond funding this spring when the financially troubled Golden State initiates a new round of borrowing. CIRM Chairman Jonathan Thomas Continue Reading
Two Potential Buyers Eyeing Geron’s hESC Business
Geron has two interested potential buyers for its human embryonic stem cell business, the president of the California stem cell agency said today. Alan Trounson told CIRM directors that at one Continue Reading
CIRM Directors to Take Up Future Funding and Direction of Stem Cell Agency
The meeting of the CIRM board has recessed for five minutes. When it resumes directors will begin discussing their desires for future direction of CIRM and the "transition plan" for the agency as it Continue Reading
Stem Cell Agency Shying Away From Another Multibillion-dollar Bond Proposal
The $3 billion California stem cell agency, which is expected to run out of cash in five years, is backing away from an attempt to win voter approval of another multibillion dollar bond measure to Continue Reading
Cancer sequencing project identifies potential approaches to combat aggressive leukemia
Researchers have discovered that a subtype of leukemia characterized by a poor prognosis is fueled by mutations in pathways distinctly different from a seemingly similar leukemia associated with a Continue Reading
Scientists learn how stem cell implants help heal traumatic brain injury
For years, researchers seeking new therapies for traumatic brain injury have been tantalized by the results of animal experiments with stem cells. Continue Reading
Ellington baby's stem cells may save brother
AS Nathan Shorey lovingly hugs his baby brother, he has no idea that Samuel could ultimately help save his life.Source:http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?ei=UTF-8&p=stem+cells&eo=UTF-8 Continue Reading
1st US Patient Gets Stem Cell Trachea
After a 12 hour procedure in Sweden, Christopher Lyles, 30, of Abingdon, Md, was breathing through a lab grown windpipe that doctors fashioned from his own stem Continue Reading
Ellington baby's stem cells could help save brother
A TODDLER’s baby brother could be his lifesaver after his parents harvested stem cells from his umbilical cord to potentially treat him for Continue Reading
Public Invited to Learn More About Potential of Stem Cells in Healthcare
Regenerative Medicine Institute, Mexico to host informal lecture February 1, 2012, at the DoubleTree Hotel – Del Mar.San Diego, CA (PRWEB) January 15, 2012 Regenerative Medicine Institute, Mexico Continue Reading
