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Research Studies Confirm Promise of Novel Cord Blood Stem Cell from BioE

BioE(R), Inc., a biomedical company providing non-embryonic, human stem cells, announced today that studies conducted by researchers at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in the United Kingdom and the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis confirm the promise of the...

Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on January 13, 2006 02:49 PM

Bone Marrow Stem Cell Transplants Improve Heart Function

An encouraging study presented at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation’s (CRF) Annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium has shown that transplantation of bone marrow stem cells into the heart improves heart function and blood flow in heart attack patients for...

Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on October 18, 2005 06:22 PM

Cytori Therapeutics Announces Fall Medical Conference Presentation Schedule

Results from Adipose Stem Cell Preclinical Studies to be Reported San Diego, CA, August 30, 2005 - Cytori Therapeutics, Inc. (Frankfurt: XMP), announced today its Fall medical conference presentation schedule. The Company will present preclinical results on the use of...

Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on September 1, 2005 07:23 PM

Singapore Wants Everyone To Know They Do Stem Cell Research Too

In Asia, South Korea always gets the spotlight .. and sometimes China. Singapore however, has been quietly working on developing procedures based off of some the research being done world wide. Steven Fang, chief executive of Singapore-based CyGenics, stated that...

Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on August 26, 2005 03:07 PM

Missouri Blocks Kansas City Research

The ethical debate over embryonic stem cells reaches beyond Washington to state capitals and research parks across the country. With competition hot from Maryland to California for cutting-edge research and the profits that could follow, many states are evaluating the...

Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on August 11, 2005 05:17 PM

New Investment Report Reveals Rapid Growth of Stem Cell Technology Research

Investment into stem cell technology is continuing apace despite public controversy and legal and regulatory barriers, according to a report by Marks & Clerk, one of the world’s leading firms of patent and trade mark attorneys. In its Biotechnology Report...

Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on June 23, 2005 02:18 PM

Stem cell research activist, Dr. Wise Young, tackles current issues

This is a pretty good article giving us the background of Dr. Wise Young, a Rutgers University neuroscientist who has a great deal of interest in stem cell research being done abroad, specifically China, Korea and Portugal. As proof of...

Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on June 21, 2005 12:04 PM

California Institute for Regenerative Medicine Press Release: ICOC Appoints Members to Scientific and Medical Research Facilities Working Group

EMERYVILLE, CA – The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) announced the appointment by the Independent Citizens’ Oversight Committee (ICOC) of members to serve on its Scientific and Medical Research Facilities Working Group (Facilities Working Group). The members were recommended...

Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on June 16, 2005 11:30 AM

States Compete In Attracting Stem Cell Researchers

Throughout the US, states are evaluating or actually setting up their own embryonic stem cell programs. The potential rewards in medical breakthroughs and economic development are too lucrative to ignore. As a result, the legislatures in these states are putting...

Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on April 18, 2005 02:15 PM

A Paralyzed Patient's Perspective on Stem Cell Treatment In China

We have had several articles regarding Will Terpstra from New Zealand a motor neurone sufferer that went to China for stem cell therapy. This procedure was done by American-educated neurosurgeon Dr. Hongyun Huang, and have heard some promising reports. What...

Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on April 12, 2005 08:06 PM

Johns Hopkins Begins Human Trials With Donor Adult Stem Cells To Repair Muscle Damaged From Heart Attack

Researchers at Johns Hopkins have begun what is believed to be the first clinical trial in the United States of adult mesenchymal stem cells to repair muscle damaged by heart attack, or myocardial infarct. The so-called Phase I study is...

Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on March 26, 2005 02:47 PM

University of Connecticut Nears Creation of Embryonic Stem Cells

The University of Connecticut has announced it is poised to become one of the first colleges in the country to actually launch a program for the development of human embryonic stem cells. Xiangzhong "Jerry" Yang, who is a cloning expert...

Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on March 25, 2005 05:43 PM

Willie Terpstra Able To Speak Following Stem Cell Treatment

Willie Terpstra is finally able to speak again. This following a controversial stem-cell transplant in China on Monday. The Rotorua, New Zealand woman suffers from incurable motor neurone disease. She appeared on television last Tuesday communicating actually with her voice...

Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on March 25, 2005 11:58 AM

New Zealander Willie Terpstra Awaits Word on Timing of Stem-Cell Surgery

News is expected today on when Willie Terpstra will have a stem-cell transplant in China in a bid to ease her condition. Willie Terpstra, from New Zealand, is a motor neurone sufferer. The 64-year-old has been in Beijing with her...

Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on March 15, 2005 11:55 AM

More on Rotorua Patient Headed to China for Stem Cell Treatment

More than anything else, motor neurone sufferer Willy Terpstra would love the opportunity to speak again - even for just one day. And it is with that goal in mind that the 64-year-old Rotorua woman will board a plane tomorrow...

Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on March 3, 2005 11:31 PM

Rotorua Motor Neurone Disease Sufferer To Undergo Stem Cell Operation

A Rotorua motor neurone disease sufferer will fly to China tomorrow to undergo a controversial stem cell operation her family hopes will prolong her life. Willy Terpstra was diagnosed with the degenerative condition motor neurone disease about a year ago....

Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on March 3, 2005 09:06 PM

As With Any New Breakthroughs, The First To Hit The Masses are the Snake Oil Dealers

It would appear that Stem Cell Research is no different than the many frightenling AIDS "treatments" of the 80's, the hack platic surgery of the 90's and some the "holistic" cancer treatments that hit the market. Here we are at...

Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on February 22, 2005 10:24 AM

China: Continuing Embryonic Stem Cell Research

While maintaining its opposition to human reproductive cloning, embryonic stem cell research in China will continue to be allowed, though closely monitored,for the treatment and prevention of disease, a senior Chinese expert said. "Therapeutic cloning opens up prospects for the...

Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on February 21, 2005 12:01 PM

China Allows First Stem Cell Injection into Clinical Test

China's Ministry of Science and Technology and Ministry of Health announced here Tuesday that the country's first stem cell injection was allowed into phase I clinical test for leukemia patients....

Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on February 2, 2005 09:56 AM

China Set to Become Stem Cell Research Leader

When Jianhong Zhu, professor of neurosurgery at the city's Fudan University's Huashan Hospital, treated a patient with a chopstick lodged in his brain, not an uncommon injury in China, the culinary implement ultimately helped repair the damage it had caused....

Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on January 27, 2005 02:43 PM

A.C.T. Holdings to Aquire Advanced Cell Technology

A.C.T. Holdings Inc. [TWMK ](formerly known as Two Moons Kachinas Inc.) and Advanced Cell Technology Inc. have announced that they signed an agreement for A.C.T. Holdings to acquire Advanced Cell for up to 17,736,175 shares of common stock of A.C.T....

Posted in Today's Stem Cell Research on January 4, 2005 03:00 PM

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