Stem Cell Research and News: Brazil
<-- Back To RegionsStemCyte, Inc. Completes Significant Round of Financing
Leader in Stem Cell Technology Adds New Investors ARCADIA, Calif., July 19 /PRNewswire/ - StemCyte®, Inc., a leading umbilical cord blood stem cell transplantation and therapeutic products company, today announced it has recently completed a significant round of financing from...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on July 26, 2005 01:55 PM
More Evidence Stem Cells Help Heart Patients
Scientists at the Texas Heart Institute are reporting that they have new evidence showing the effectiveness of treating congestive heart failure with a patient's own stem cells. The researchers performed a postmortem examination of a trial participant who died of...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on July 22, 2005 04:46 PM
Thermogenesis Corp. Completes Enrollment Of 150-Patient Human Clinical Trial Of CRYOSEAL® Fibrin Sealant System
RANCHO CORDOVA, California (June 22, 2005) – ThermoGenesis Corp. (NASDAQ: KOOL) announced today that enrollment is now complete for its pivotal U.S. 150-patient blinded, randomized, multi-center clinical trial for the CryoSeal Fibrin Sealant (FS) System. This pivotal trial evaluated the...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on July 12, 2005 11:33 AM
Stem Cell Research Debated Further in Brazil
A new hotbed for stem cell research debate has sprung up with Brazil's most senior law officials and its health minister. The focus is about the legality of using human embryos for stem cell research. The attorney general, Claudio Fonteles,...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on June 16, 2005 12:25 PM
Stem Cells Implanted in Brain in Sufferer a Cerebral Infarction
Stems Cells were for the first time in Argentina implanted in the brain of a patient who had suffered a cerebral infarction. The procedure was performed in San Nicolas City (Province of Buenos Aires Argentina) on May 18, 2005 by...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on June 7, 2005 12:27 PM
Brazil Getting Into the Stem Cell Research Funding Game
The Brazilian government has announced that it is setting some hard currency ($4 million USD) specifically to finance human stem cell research. Even so far as to include experiments with human embryos. Half of the funding (11 million reals) that...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on April 21, 2005 02:25 PM
ThermoGenesis Corp. to Present at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey's Annual Conference
RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif., April 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ThermoGenesis Corp. (Nasdaq: KOOL), a pioneer in the development of systems that enable the production and storage of therapeutic components, today announced that Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Philip H. Coelho, will be...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on April 11, 2005 03:27 PM
Brazil Opens Way for Stem Cell Research
Brazil's lower house just passed a Biosafety Law expected to clear the way for the sale of genetically modified (GMO) crops and for research into human embryonic stem cells. The controversial legislation that defines the regulatory framework for use of...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on March 3, 2005 10:38 PM
Brazil Launches Stem Cell Study
The Brazilian government on Wednesday launched what it called the world's largest study involving adult stem cells to treat heart disease. Health Minster Humberto Costa launched the study which will involve 1,200 patients at National Institute of Cardiology at Laranjeiras....
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on February 7, 2005 10:39 AM
Brazilian Bishops Caution Against Stem-Cell Hype
As Brazil's congress continues its yearlong debate over legalizing embryonic stem-cell research, Cardinal Geraldo Majella Agnelo, the president of the country's bishops' conference, denounced some scientists who "sell hopes to a whole list of seriously ill people, as if, once...
Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on January 13, 2005 02:27 PM